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McDermott Will & Schulte

Trending in Telehealth: June 2025

Trending in Telehealth highlights monthly state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Accessing Opioid Settlement Funds

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While federal funding for addiction treatment programs and research is being cut, more than $50 billion is being distributed to state and local programs from opioid-related lawsuits. There is great debate on the use of these...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Trending in Telehealth: April 2025

Trending in Telehealth highlights monthly state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

The Robins Kaplan Justice Report - Vol. 19, No. 1 - March 2025

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A recent $2.75 million settlement by Robins Kaplan LLP has drawn attention to a troubling case of deliberate indifference to medical needs at Anoka County Jail (the “Jail”). Deyonta Green, who struggled with addiction issues,...more

McCarter & English, LLP

New Jersey Regulatory Update Part II - February 2025

We continue our New Jersey Regulatory Update with this Part II, which focuses on regulations that were finalized in the second half of 2024 and impact healthcare. For example, as a continuation of price transparency efforts,...more

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Prescription for Change: Massachusetts Pharmacies Undergo Regulatory Revamp

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Pharmacies doing business in Massachusetts must act now – The Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy (the “Board”) has announced a series of new and long-awaited pharmacy licensure regulations that took effect in...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: January 7 – 13, 2025

Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: October 15 – 21, 2024

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Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: September 24 – 30, 2024

Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CO and NY enact laws to prevent reporting of medical debt to credit bureaus

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Colorado and New York are not waiting for the Fair Credit Reporting Act rulemaking to eliminate creditor use of medical debt announced by the CFPB in September 2023. As we previously blogged, in the past two years, Equifax,...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Of Digital Interest Quarterly Roundup | Q1 2023

McDermott’s digital health team continually monitors legal developments affecting all aspects of the remote delivery of care. This inaugural issue of our Of Digital Interest Quarterly Roundup highlights key issues and trends...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Access to Abortion Pill in Limbo: Navigating the Intricacies of Conflicting Federal Court Rulings in Texas and Washington State

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) approval of the commonly-used abortion medication, Mifepristone, has been curtailed following dueling federal court decisions in Texas and Washington. Just days after a Texas...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

When Keeping Medication Safe May Lead to Increased Liability

In a country that is still struggling with an opioid epidemic, and where there are enough rules and laws regulating the dispensing of medication to fill a tome, it makes sense that medical providers across the nation are...more

Goodwin

Telehealth Issues to Watch in 2023

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth utilization exploded. Globally, the telehealth market is valued at $83.5 billion and is expected to grow by 24% between 2023 and 2030. As services delivered via telehealth became more...more

White & Case LLP

2022 Drug Pricing Update: States Continue Legislative Push Even As Congress Passes Long Sought Changes

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States remain at the forefront of legislative efforts on a range of issues relating to drug pricing, such as increasing price transparency, capping out-of-pocket costs for insulin, and limiting certain PBM practices. These...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Outlook for Action on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Initiatives

Prompted by rising rates of overdose deaths, suicides and incidence of mental illness in at-risk populations, such as children, Congress has spent the better part of the year working in a bipartisan manner to develop and...more

Kerr Russell

Telemedicine in Michigan: 2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to demonstrate the importance and effectiveness of telemedicine as a means of providing patients with access to safe and quality medical care through the use of technology... Originally...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Gold Dome Report — Legislative Day 29

After a late-adjourning Crossover Day, legislators and lobbyists largely slept late today, with one notable exception — those appearing before the Human Development Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

Connecticut DCP Issues Guidance for Remotely Refilling Prescriptions

The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection Drug Control Division (DCP) has issued guidance for health care providers regarding refills and reissuances of controlled substance prescriptions for patients without an...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

Massachusetts Issues COVID-19 Orders and Related Guidance for Pharmacies and Pharmacy Professionals

On March 24, 2020, the Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health issued a Pharmacy Practice Order related to pharmacy practice by retail and institutional pharmacies....more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Gold Dome Report - March 2020 #6

It felt as if Crossover Day came early under the Gold Dome as legislators rushed to vote on a number of weighty issues today, some of which were the products of months of discussion while others appeared in only the last few...more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Vermont Health Care Update 02-28-20 - An analysis from DRM's Health Law Team

House overrides minimum wage veto - On a vote of 100-49, the House voted to override Gov. Phil Scott’s veto of the minimum wage bill. The bill will raise the state’s minimum wage to $11.75 in 2021, and $12.55 in 2022, and...more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Vermont Health Care Update 02-17-2020 - An analysis from DRM's Health Law Team

Push to end surprise medical billing - The Senate Finance Committee heard from providers and health insurers on S.309, a bill that prohibits certain provisions in contracts between health insurers and health care...more

Baker Donelson

A Flurry of Recent Activity Highlights Continued Interest in 340B Program Oversight

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Four separate government releases coming over a three-week period have once again highlighted the intense interest in the 340B drug pricing program, with a federal agency and two government watchdog groups issuing guidance...more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Vermont Health Care Update 01-27-20 - An analysis from DRM's Health Law Team

Governor delivers budget address - Gov. Phil Scott delivered his budget address on Tuesday, focusing on the demographic crisis and a shrinking workforce as the state’s biggest challenges....more

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