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Navigating Legal Strategies for Covering GLP-1s in Self-Insured Medical Plans — Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Podcast
Evolving AI Legislation: Federal Policies, Task Forces, and Proposed Laws — The Good Bot Podcast
Podcast - Hot Topics in FDA Regulation: GLP-1s, LDTs, AI and More
Podcast — Drug Pricing: 2025 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference Takeaways and Outlook
Prescribing GLP-1 Medications: Be Aware of Legal Limitations
AI and Pharmacovigilance Under the FDA's New Emerging Drug Safety Technology Program – The Good Bot Podcast
Podcast — Drug Pricing: What’s in the New CMS Medicaid Final Rule?
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 216: Patient Advocacy and Healthcare Policy Change with Melissa Horn of the Arthritis Foundation
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 214: Pharma Manufacturing in North Carolina with Ed Hernandez of Eli Lilly
Podcast — Drug Pricing: Takeaways From the Chicago Medicaid Drug Rebate Program Summit
Podcast — Drug Pricing: How the Demise of Chevron Deference and Other Litigation May Impact the Pharmaceutical Industry
Understanding Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The PBM Landscape Explained
Podcast — Drug Pricing: How Are Payers Responding to the IRA?
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 203: Manufacturing Specialty Drugs for Rare Diseases in North Carolina with Paul Testa of Kyowa Kirin
The DEA Is Knocking at Your Door . . . Are You Prepared? – Diagnosing Health Care
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340B Drug Pricing Program Compliance
Podcast: The Legal Battle Over Mifepristone - Diagnosing Health Care
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Welcome to the seventh issue of Health Headlines, a newsletter created by lawyers in our Healthcare practice. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 383 into law, placing new restrictions on pharmacy benefit...more
Takeaways- • Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives attempt to deliver on President Trump’s campaign promises in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (BBB or the Act), which passed the House by a razor-thin margin of...more
Prescription Drug Affordability Boards (PDABs) are becoming a larger part of the state drug price regulatory landscape. The boards are regulatory bodies that review the affordability and cost of specific prescription drugs. ...more
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The Maryland General Assembly’s 2025 legislative session concluded with a few impactful health care bills. The two bills below, signed into law by Gov. Wes Moore on Tuesday, represent significant steps in improving health...more
THIS WEEK’S DOSE - - House Passes Reconciliation Package. The package now moves to the Senate, where substantive changes, including in healthcare, will likely be made. - HHS Secretary Kennedy, FDA Commissioner Makary...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more
Reconciliation Text Is Here - Late Sunday night, May 11, 2025, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce released the much-anticipated budget reconciliation bill text ahead of its scheduled markup on May 13, 2025. ...more
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
THIS WEEK’S DOSE - - Reconciliation Moves Forward with Senate Introduction of Concurrent Budget Resolution. This move initiates the next stage in the reconciliation process, which requires House and Senate passage of a...more
Introduction The Alabama Community Pharmacy Relief Act, Senate Bill 252, has successfully passed the Alabama Senate and is now advancing to the House for consideration. This legislation aims to regulate pharmacy benefits...more
On the heels of a nationwide push to regulate pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), Massachusetts enacted a landmark piece of legislation to increase transparency and oversight within the pharmaceutical supply chain, specifically...more
The House was in session this week, while the Senate was in recess. The House Energy & Commerce Committee continued its work on healthcare by advancing six bills that address competition, transparency and access to care. The...more
The House and Senate were both in session this week, with significant healthcare activity at the committee level. The House Ways & Means Committee met to discuss healthcare price transparency, and the Ways & Means Health...more
Congress was in session, and it was a busy healthcare week at the committee level, with six hearings focused specifically on health issues. On the House floor, Republicans passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act—a bill that raises...more
A new California law (AB 1278) will require physicians and their employers to provide patients with several forms of notices about the Open Payments database, starting January 1, 2023. The law is intended to increase...more
The General Assembly got back to work on Tuesday with a slate full of committee meetings to advance bills and resolutions through the legislative gauntlet. But before legislators receded into the meeting rooms in the State...more
As expected (and feared), March madness has engulfed the State Capitol as legislators press to pass measures on the penultimate day of the 2021 Legislative Session. From late-arriving Rules Committee substitutes and...more
On June 1, 2018, Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy signed into law Public Act 18-77 “An Act Limiting Auto Refills of Prescription Drugs Covered Under the Medicaid Program and Requiring the Commissioner of Social Services...more
We recently updated our chart that tracks state biosimilar substitution laws to include new laws in Iowa and Montana. These new laws bring the total number of states with biosimilar substitution laws to 27, plus Puerto Rico....more
The Cures Act aims to increase the speed by which new drugs are brought to market by streamlining clinical trials, allowing the use of patient data in the regulatory review process, and modernizing U.S. Food and Drug...more
Last week, legislators turned their attention to the weightiest and most controversial issues, including debate and passage of several gun bills. Now, with only three legislative days remaining, both budgets will take...more