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Liquidia Techs., Inc. v. FDA - Updated 5.2.25

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Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: FDA refused to approve Liquidia’s drug product, Yutrepia because another company, UTC, maintained marketing exclusivity. Liquidia sued FDA, and UTC intervened. The court granted...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Most-Favored-Nation Drug Pricing in the U.S.

On May 12, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) on drug pricing: “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients.” The EO requires a 30-day government negotiation with drug companies...more

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Vertex’s Attempt to Redefine AKS Falls Short: Key Insights for Pharma Manufacturers

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In a series of recent legal challenges initiated by the pharmaceutical industry against the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG), manufacturers have contested the OIG’s...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Hatch-Waxman Requires Patent Term Extension for Reissued Patents To Be Based on Original Patent

The Federal Circuit held in Merck Sharp & Dohme B.V. v. Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc., 23-2254 that a reissued patent receives patent term extension (PTE) based on the issue date of the original patent, not the reissue patent,...more

Morgan Lewis

Manufacturers Challenge CMS’s Definitions of ‘QSSD’ and ‘Bona Fide Marketing'

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Drug manufacturers remain steadfast in their efforts to challenge the constitutionality of the Inflation Reduction Act’s mandatory price negotiation provisions. Recently filed suits contend that CMS has impermissibly expanded...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Federal Circuit: Patent Must Claim Active Ingredient for Orange Book Listing

On December 20, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a significant ruling in the Teva v. Amneal case following oral arguments before the Federal Circuit, which we discussed in our previous article. ...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Kentucky Attorney General Determines Board of Pharmacy Lacks Statutory Authority to Regulate Non-Resident Pharmacists

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The Kentucky Attorney General published a formal opinion yesterday confirming that the Board of Pharmacy cannot require the licensure of pharmacists who reside outside of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The proposed...more

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Hospital and Health Systems Reimbursement Check - NOVEMBER 2024

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Ropes & Gray attorneys share their analysis of administrative and court litigation, regulatory developments, key developments affecting federal program payments to hospitals and health systems, and other reimbursement-related...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Loper Bright and the 340B Statute

In its Loper Bright decision last week, the Supreme Court of the United States likely opened opportunities for further legal challenges to the Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA’s) interpretation and...more

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Implications of Loper Bright for FDA-Regulated Products

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Recently, Venable's Government Division offered its general thoughts on the fallout from the Supreme Court's reversal of the long-standing Chevron deference principle. Here, the FDA Practice Group offers some of its own...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

Supreme Court Decides in Favor of 340B Hospitals Regarding Medicare Reimbursement Methodology

On June 15, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of “340B” hospitals in a notable statutory interpretation case concerning how the federal Medicare program reimburses hospitals for prescription drugs. The...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

OIG’s First Advisory Opinion of 2022 Allows for Expansion of Discount Programs

On January 19, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) released a favorable advisory opinion, OIG Advisory Opinion No. 22-01 (the “Opinion”), analyzing a proposed expansion of...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

Supreme Court makes certiorari determinations on two Medicare-related cases

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A number of health care related cases have come before the United States Supreme Court this session, including two cases on topics we have previously reported on: Medicare’s site-neutral payment policy for off-campus...more

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Generic Competition for Withdrawn Drug Products

When a pharmaceutical company withdraws a product from the market, the basis for the withdrawal can affect whether a competitor can commercialize a generic version of that product. A generic cannot be approved if, in the...more

Morgan Lewis

Seventh Circuit Creates Third Standard in FCA Dismissal Authority Circuit Split

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The Seventh Circuit’s novel statutory interpretation of the government’s dismissal authority under 31 USC § 3730(c)(2)(A) may have unintended consequences. ...more

K&L Gates LLP

340B Update: Appellate Court Upholds 340B Payment Reduction as CMS Proposes Further Reductions for 2021

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In this week’s episode, Darlene Davis, Andrew Ruskin, and Gabriel Scott discuss notable recent developments for reimbursement under the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (“OPPS”) of drugs purchased under the 340B...more

Hogan Lovells

Federal Circuit Acetris Decision Changes Procurement Country of Origin Landscape

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On Monday, in the much-anticipated decision in Acetris Health, LLC v. U.S. 18-2399, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the “Federal Circuit”) ruled that U.S. manufacture of a drug is sufficient to confer U.S....more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Court Holds the FDA Cannot Classify an Imaging Agent Medical Device as a Drug

The legal definitions of a drug and a medical device set forth in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act have some important overlapping provisions. Because of the overlapping provisions, theoretically the U.S. Food and Drug...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Clinical Diagnosis of FDA's Clinical Investigation Exclusivity Standard? Unreasonable

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For drug innovators, particularly those focusing on repurposing drugs for new indications and developing drugs that are not considered new chemical entities, understanding the scope of the clinical investigation exclusivity...more

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OIG Advisory Opinion No. 19-02 Allows Pharmaceutical Manufacturer to Temporarily Loan Smartphones to Financially Needy Patients to...

On January 24, 2019, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a favorable advisory opinion allowing a pharmaceutical manufacturer (“Manufacturer”) to temporarily loan limited-functionality smartphones to financially...more

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