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California’s Bold Experiment with Whole-Person Centered Care: Has it Worked?

Fennemore on 6/12/2025

CalAIM is an initiative of the California Department of Health Care Services (the Department) to improve the quality of life and health outcomes of Medi-Cal members by implementing delivery system, program, and payment...more

CMS Proposes Basic Changes for Medicare Coverage, Including a New Reimbursement Pathway for FDA-designated Breakthrough Medical...

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 9/10/2020

On August 31, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that, if finalized, would entail changes in Medicare coverage. (“Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology (MCIT) and Definition...more

Day 1 Notes at the 2020 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/15/2020

If I printed a tee shirt for the 2020 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, what would it say? In past years, it would have been “Big Data,” Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, ACA, Risk, Medicare Advantage or Quality. This...more

Nonprofit hospitals hound patients with draconian debt collections

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 7/1/2019

Nonprofit hospitals added almost $40 billion to their bottom lines in the last year and lavished a $3.5 million average salary on their chiefs. But their relentless grubbing for cash apparently was unsated still. The...more

ML Strategies Health Care Preview - May 2019 #3

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 5/15/2019

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

Three Pressing Challenges for Personalized Medicine

Foley & Lardner LLP on 11/4/2015

Personalized medicine can be described as the science of targeted therapies. Advances in diagnostic and molecular medicine have made it possible to more precisely identify alternative treatment options for patients based on...more

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

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 11/2/2015

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

Recent Developments in Massachusetts Health Policy

Mintz - ML Strategies on 10/26/2015

Building on the momentum of early October hearings on the state’s growing health care expenditures, the Health Policy Commission (HPC), the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, Governor Charlie Baker, and others spent...more

Battle Over Cost of Drugs Ratchets Up

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 5/30/2014

The battle over the rising costs of drugs, fueled by Gilead’s Hepatitis C drug Sovaldi that costs $84,000 for a 12 week treatment regimen, intensified this week. Critics of the cost have taken to referring to the drug as the...more

Rule Overhaul to Save Health Industry Up To $640 Million, Medicare Says

McDermott Will & Emery on 5/14/2014

On May 7, 2014, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a long-awaited final rule in response to President Obama’s Executive Order (EO) 13563, “Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review,” which set as...more

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