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Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - April 2025 #4

News Briefs - High Court to Hear Case Challenging ACA Free Preventive Care - The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case challenging a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires private insurers to cover...more

Venable LLP

Amgen Launches Wezlana™ as the First Stelara® Interchangeable Biosimilar through Optum’s Nuvaila

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On January 1, 2025, Amgen launched the first interchangeable biosimilar of Janssen / Johnson & Johnson’s Stelara® (ustekinumab), Wezlana™ (ustekinumab-auub), as a private label product through Optum Health’s Nuvaila....more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Connecticut Law Imposes New Requirements on Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, Defined to Include Device and Cosmetic Manufacturers,...

Public Act No. 23-171: An Act Protecting Patients and Prohibiting Unnecessary Health Care Costs (Act) took effect in Connecticut on October 1, 2023. Under the Act, a pharmaceutical manufacturer (PM) that employs...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - July 2022

The 21st century American reality is if you get sick, really sick,you're in for a money nightmare on top of the emotional and physical toll of serious disease. Medical costs keep skyrocketing with no sign of easing....more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - March 2022

Whatever your political leanings, you have to appreciate President Biden's deep personal and tragic connection to the No. 2 killer of Americans, cancer. The disease killed his oldest adult son in the prime of his life, right...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

California, Big Blues, and hospitals join the attack on sky-high drug prices

Big Pharma, with its relentless price gouging, may finally have poked in the eye the wrong people. But even as patients wait to see if hospitals, and now states and insurers, can beat down skyrocketing drug prices, isn’t it...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Drug Pricing Concerns Drive Continued DOJ Focus on Life Sciences Companies

In 2019, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) enforcement activity targeting drug and device manufacturers jumped sharply over the prior year, reflecting an increased focus on fraud and abuse in the life sciences sector. More...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Here’s a cause for anger and despair: We’re all forced to pay $8,000 ‘health tax’

Even as economic inequity and inequality fuel a nationwide plague of “deaths of despair,” a runaway and inefficient health system hits Americans hard in their pocketbooks, in effect imposing an $8,000 annual tax on every...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

U.S. orders price postings in hopes of curbing hospitals’ trillion-dollar costs

The Trump Administration deserves credit for doing something right on hospital prices — but with what likely will be ineffective results....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

[Podcast] What's New In Washington: What Congress Is Doing About Drug Pricing and Surprise Medical Billing

In this episode, Akin Gump health care and life sciences senior counsel Taylor Jones and public law and policy senior policy advisor Julie Nolan discuss draft legislation currently on Capitol Hill focusing on drug pricing and...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Health insurance? It’s now about the price of a new car each year.

Millions of Americans may sigh at Bertha, Barney, or Betty, or whatever they’ve nicknamed the beat-up family vehicle parked out front: “Wouldn’t it be great, if only we could afford a nicer, newer model?”...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

$14k to treat iron-poor blood? That’s rich. As is politicians’ health care frenzy.

Iron poor blood? For many of a certain age, mere mention of that phrase conjures the major advertising campaigns of yore for a popular, over-the-counter nostrum called Geritol. The tonic is still around and sells for less...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

ML Strategies Health Care Preview - May 2019 #3

This week, all is quiet in the Senate as stakeholders await the release of the highly anticipated cost-containment package that is being developed by the HELP and Finance committees. While the details are not yet public – a...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Cost of medical billing soars to half a trillion dollars—and half may be wasted

When patients battle with the desperate extremes of a disease like a fast-spreading cancer, it isn’t just the radiation and chemo therapies that sap their spirits, there’s a demoralizing runner-up concern: The constant...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

ML Strategies Health Care Preview - April 2019

This week, Congress is keeping its eye on drug pricing with a reported hearing in the House Ways & Means Committee. This comes on the heels of the full E&C Committee advancing six pieces of bipartisan legislation for full...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

For soaring drug costs and overdoses, officials offer blame and shame

As tens of thousands of Americans die from overdoses and many millions struggle with skyrocketing prescription medication costs, lawmakers and regulators in the nation’s capital plodded along with procedural steps they...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Massachusetts HPC Health Care Cost Trends Hearing: Key Takeaways

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (“HPC”) held its annual Health Care Cost Trends Hearing on October 16-17, 2018. The hearing covered a wide range of topics affecting the health care industry here in the Commonwealth...more

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Addicts Not Only Ones Paying Price of Opioid Epidemic

One trillion dollars. That’s how much the country spent on the opioid epidemic between 2001 and 2017, according to a report released by the nonprofit institute Altarum, a consulting group focused on improving public health. ...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Massachusetts Health Care Reform – Full Speed Ahead; Health Policy Commission 2015 Cost Trends Report

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (HPC) has issued its 2015 Cost Trends Report, based on the HPC’s annual health care cost growth hearings. The report contained 13 key recommendations across a wide range of health...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

MA Health Policy Updates – Moves to Strengthen HPC and Expand Telemedicine

In a recent Alert, the Mintz Levin Health Law Practice and ML Strategies provided a comprehensive look at recent developments in Massachusetts health policy. In addition to a detailed report on recent Health Policy Commission...more

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