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Health Care Marketing Enforcement: FTC Targets Telehealth Company for Deceptive Weight Loss Marketing Claims

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On July 14, 2025, the operators of telemedicine company Southern Health Solutions, Inc., doing business as Next Medical and NextMed, agreed to settle the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) charges that the company’s weight‑loss...more

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Federal and State Agencies Ramp Up Scrutiny of the GLP-1 Drug Market

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Overview - As demand for GLP-1 drugs continues to skyrocket, federal and state agencies are turning their attention to the GLP-1 market and ramping up efforts to address the perceived risks associated with counterfeit and...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FTC Sues Nation’s Largest PBMs, Continuing Biden Administration’s Antitrust Scrutiny of the Life Sciences Sector

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The Biden administration’s antitrust scrutiny of the life sciences industry continued this week as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed an administrative complaint against the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers...more

Epstein Becker & Green

FTC Releases Controversial Interim Staff Report on PBMs’ Purported Impact on Drug Prices

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At an Open Commission Meeting on August 1, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) presented a report prepared by its staff entitled Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The Powerful Middlemen Inflating Drug Costs and Squeezing Main...more

White & Case LLP

Three Drug Pricing Litigation Issues to Watch in the Second Half of 2024

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It has been a busy year for issues related to drug pricing, and with the election around the corner, litigation issues that have been developing over the last few years are likely to be a key focus for the second half of...more

WilmerHale

The Interplay: Key Decisions at the Intersection of Antitrust & Life Sciences - April 2024

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This week, the FTC continued its intense regulatory focus on pharmaceutical patents listed in the FDA’s Orange Book. As reported in earlier editions of The Interplay, the FTC issued a policy statement in September 2023,...more

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The Interplay: Key Decisions at the Intersection of Antitrust & Life Sciences - March 2024

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Calls for Removal of Device Patents Listed in the Orange Book Continue. FTC and Congressional action scrutinizing allegedly “improper” Orange Book listings continued apace in the first few months of 2024. ...more

Polsinelli

Regeneron v Novartis and Vetter: Walker Process Client Update

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In an appeal that attracted a dozen amici, including the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, five states, and the District of Columbia, the Second Circuit gave the Walker Process antitrust doctrine a shot in...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

FTC’s Enforcement Action Against GoodRx Breathes New Life into Decade Old Regulation

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) didn’t mince words. On September 2021, it called out the health app industry for failing to understand the agency’s Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) and for not disclosing its...more

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Not What the Doctor Ordered: GoodRx to Pay $1.5 Million in FTC’s First Enforcement of the Health Breach Notification Rule

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The Federal Trade Commission earlier this month undertook an enforcement action against online pharmacy and telehealth provider GoodRx, in the latest example of the agency seriously pursuing its role as the nation’s de facto...more

Haug Partners LLP

Senate Bill and FTC 6(b) Study Turn the Heat on Pharmacy Benefit Managers Amid Drug Pricing Concerns

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Introduction Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are the healthcare system players most patients have never heard of. Yet, PBMs represent a multibillion-dollar industry that touches the majority of Americans’ lives. Known as...more

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“A Full Plate”: FTC’s Open Meeting on PBMs, AI, Privacy and Online Harms

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During a much anticipated Open Commission Meeting announced by Commission Chair Lina M. Khan, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) voted in favor of issuing one new policy statement and one new report to Congress. First,...more

Fish & Richardson

Biosimilars 2021 Year in Review

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2021 saw several important milestones in the biosimilars space, including the much anticipated first interchangeable designations by FDA and the approval of the first ophthalmology biosimilar. The biosimilar market also...more

White & Case LLP

FTC Publishes Annual MMA Report—Continues to Scrutinize Pharma Patent Settlements

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On December 3, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its annual report on pharmaceutical patent settlements filed with the FTC under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003...more

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Federal Trade Commission v. AbbVie Inc. (3d Cir. 2020)

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The Federal Trade Commission carried out an (in)famous crusade against reverse payment (more provocatively, "pay for delay") settlements in ANDA litigation for almost a decade before eventually having the Supreme Court see...more

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FDA/FTC Joint Workshop on a Competitive Marketplace for Biosimilars – Comments from Stakeholders

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As we have previously reported, in February 2020 FDA and FTC announced a joint collaboration “to advance competition in the biologic marketplace.” On March 9th, the two agencies held a public workshop to discuss their...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

DTC Compounded Medications: A Treatment Option for a System in Need?

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We have all been there: An advertisement on television or a pop-up on Facebook beckons us to try the latest “visit-free,” “delivered to your door” treatment for a medical condition. Originally published in Dermatology Times...more

Clark Hill PLC

Window On Washington - Vol. 4, Issue 3

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Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House is in recess this week and the Senate will begin the impeachment trial later this afternoon. ...more

WilmerHale

Unprecedented State Law on Pharmaceutical “Reverse Payments” Goes Into Effect

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A new California law, Preserving Access to Affordable Drugs, AB-824 (the Act), which is aimed at curbing reverse-payment patent settlements, took effect on January 1. The Act codifies a presumption that any transfer of value...more

Cozen O'Connor

The State AG Report Weekly Update June 2019 #2

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Antitrust- 10 Attorneys General Sue to Enjoin Merger of Major Wireless Phone Companies- 10 AGs, led by New York AG Letitia James and California AG Xavier Becerra, filed a lawsuit to enjoin T-Mobile US, Inc. and its parent...more

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The State AG Report Weekly Update March 2019 #4

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Cannabis/Marijuana- South Dakota Attorney General Issues Clarifying Statement on Legality of Industrial Hemp and Cannabidiol Oil- South Dakota AG Jason Ravnsborg issued a clarifying statement regarding the legality of...more

Jones Day

Antitrust Alert: New Law Requires Disclosure of Biologic Patent Settlement Agreements to Antitrust Authorities

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Last week, the Patient Right to Know Drug Prices Act ("Act") became law. The Act requires pharmaceutical companies to disclose to antitrust agencies agreements between biologic and biosimilar companies that relate to the...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

FTC Appeals Dismissal of Antitrust Lawsuit Alleging Abuse of Government Processes to Delay Generic Competition

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has appealed a Delaware federal court’s recent dismissal of the FTC’s suit against Shire ViroPharma Inc. (“ViroPharma”) alleging anticompetitive conduct. The appeal, FTC v. Shire ViroPharma...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

District Court Narrowly Defines the Relevant Market in Post-Actavis Pay-For-Delay Suit

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On August 8, the District of Connecticut issued a noteworthy ruling on how to approach defining the relevant market definition in a pay-for-delay suit. In In re Aggrenox Antitrust Litigation, 3:14-md-02516 (D. Conn.), three...more

BakerHostetler

Turing Pharmaceuticals Facing NY Antitrust Inquiry in Wake of 5,000 Percent Price Hike

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Turing Pharmaceuticals is back in the news over its marketing and distribution of Daraprim, the anti-parasitic drug crucial for treating toxoplasmosis, which can be fatal to patients with compromised immune systems. As you...more

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