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Vaccine Suspension: FDA Leans Into Its Withdrawal Toolbox, But Will It Invite Challenges?

On August 22, 2025, FDA suspended the biologics license for Ixchiq, one of only two marketed chikungunya vaccines. The decision to suspend comes only a few weeks after FDA approved a Safety Labeling Change supplemental...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FDA Issues Guidance on AI for Medical Devices

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued final guidance Monday that explains how medical device manufacturers can use a Predetermined Change Control Plan (PCCP) to update AI-enabled device software functions (AI-DSFs)...more

Carlton Fields

Executive Order Seeks to Build Resilience in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

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On August 13, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at strengthening America’s pharmaceutical supply chains. Officially titled “Ensuring American Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Resilience by Filling the Strategic...more

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HHS Pilot Program to Evaluate 340B Drug Pricing Program Rebate Models

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The Health Resources and Services Administration ("HRSA") plans to implement a limited pilot program that will allow approved manufacturers to issue post-purchase rebates for 340B covered outpatient drugs rather than upfront...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

HRSA Launches and Seeks Comments on 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program

On August 1, 2025, the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) issued a Notice announcing the launch of the 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program (“Pilot Program”), that would dramatically change the way in which...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Manufacturer Rebate Models: The Next 340B Program Battleground

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The 340B Drug Pricing Program (“340B Program”) space continues to be a hive of activity. While 340B stakeholders continue to litigate ongoing manufacturer contract pharmacy restrictions, states legislatures are enacting...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

HHS Publishes 340B Guidance Proposing Rebate Pilot Program

On July 31, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a much-anticipated 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program (Pilot Program) via guidance (Guidance) that will be formally published on August 1, 2025. The...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: July 15 – 21, 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

Cozen O'Connor

The State AG Report – 07.17.2025

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Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •Democratic AGs Oppose Washing Away Appliance Efficiency...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: July 8 – 14, 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

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

DOJ and HHS Launch New False Claims Act Working Group to Target Healthcare Fraud

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have jointly announced the launch of a reinvigorated DOJ-HHS False Claims Act Working Group aimed at enhancing interagency...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: July 1 – 7, 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

Quarles & Brady LLP

Puerto Rico Repeals Special Authorization Requirement for Nonresident Manufacturers and Distributors

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In July 2022, the agency formerly known as the Puerto Rico Auxiliary Secretariat for Regulation and Accreditation of Health Facilities (SARAFS), now the Auxiliary Secretariat for the Regulation of Public Health (SARSP),...more

Carlton Fields

Court Denies Vacatur of Zero-Damage Arbitration Award, Finding No Manifest Disregard of the Law

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The case involved a dispute between a medical device manufacturer and a purchaser. The petitioner, Northgate Technologies Inc., alleged that United States Endoscopy Group Inc. breached a requirements contract by purchasing...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: June 10 – 16, 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

Dentons

Ep. 63 – Speaking Fees and Safe Harbors: Lessons from a $202M AKS Settlement

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In April, a pharmaceutical manufacturer agreed to pay a $202 million settlement to resolve allegations of Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) violations. At the heart of the case were speaker programs, where physicians and...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: May 13 – 19, 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

Carlton Fields

Regulatory Relief to Promote Domestic Production of Critical Medicines

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President Trump’s May 5, 2025, executive order titled “Regulatory Relief to Promote Domestic Production of Critical Medicines” sets out the administration’s goals to increase the domestic manufacture of critical...more

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New EO Targets Prescription Drug Costs – and Drug Manufacturers, Hospitals, and Health Centers

On April 15, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) aimed at addressing the cost of prescription drugs. This EO, titled “Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First,” outlines specific directives...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Arkansas Restricts PBM Ownership of Pharmacies and Limits Manufacturers’ Use of Limited Distribution Networks

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On April 16, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law HB1150 and HB1531, two significant pieces of legislation affecting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and pharmaceutical manufacturers operating within the...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: April 8 – 14, 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

Cozen O'Connor

Mylan Inc. Settles Opioid Epidemic-Related Claims for $335 Million

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Virginia AG Jason Miyares, along with a bipartisan coalition of eight other state AGs and in coordination with six other AGs, has announced a settlement in principle with Mylan Inc. to resolve allegations that it contributed...more

Butler Snow LLP

Turnabout is Fair Play – “Junk Science” Litigation Aftermath: Requisite Retractions and Dubious Do-Overs

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Do plaintiffs’ experts get to put junk science before juries more often than their opinions are excluded? The answer is a resounding “probably.” Even in light of the December 2023 amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence and its...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Off Shortage List; Deadlines to Stop Compounding

Glucagon-like peptide-1 agonists, a class of medications known as GLP-1s, have grown in popularity, initially for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and more recently for obesity and other labeled and off-label indications for...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Opioids and Common Law Liability for Indirect Economic Harm

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Earlier this month, the Law Court weighed in on a hot-button legal issue—the potential liability of opioid manufacturers for the costs of the drug epidemic. In Eastern Maine Medical Center v. Walgreen Company, the Law Court...more

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