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AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice - Reimbursement Audits and Appeals
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HealthLaw HotSpot - A Look at Alternative Reimbursement Models in Value-Based Care
The Important and Thriving Role of Private Medical Practices
Value-Based Care and Its Impact on Providers
The Year Ahead: Litigation Hot Spots at a Glance
Teleworking: Amazing or amazingly complex?
(Video) Reimbursement of College Tuition and Fees After COVID-19
Value-based health care: compliance infrastructure
K&L Gates Triage: 340B Eligibility - Hospital Covered Entities
Value-based health care: fraud & abuse laws
Value-based health care: issues for pharmaceutical companies
Condo Water Invasion: Potential Medical Liability?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently released two proposed updates to Medicare payment rules that, if implemented, could have a significant impact on life sciences companies. The Medicare proposed...more
In the wake of the 2024 U.S. elections, stakeholders in the life sciences and health care industry are intensely focused on the policy implications for global financial markets, investment strategies, and M&A opportunities....more
On January 14, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Office of Policy Planning released a second Interim Staff Report titled Specialty Generic Drugs: A Growing Profit Center for Vertically Integrated Pharmacy Benefit...more
The new amendments to the French framework agreement. The implementation of special hospital preparations and the amendment to the framework agreement concluded between the French professional organization of pharmaceutical...more
CADTH is now known as Canada’s Drug Agency (CDA-AMC or CDA). Its mandate extends beyond CADTH’s mandate to include: improving the appropriate prescribing and use of medications; increasing pan-Canadian data collection and...more
Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more
Illumina Agrees to Unwind Acquisition of Grail Following Fifth Circuit Decision. On December 15, 2023, the Fifth Circuit vacated the FTC’s order that Illumina unwind its acquisition of Grail—a developer of a multi-cancer...more
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has taken the unusual step of issuing a prioritisation statement on cooperation between competitors to make combination therapies available to the NHS. The CMA worked closely...more
On September 28, 2023, the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) introduced the time-limited reimbursement recommendation category, which aims to provide early access to promising new drugs that target...more
The pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance (pCPA) and the Canadian Generic Pharmaceutical Association (CGPA) have agreed to a new three-year pricing initiative for generic drugs, effective October 1, 2023. This agreement, which...more
Drug Pricing Initiatives: Debate continues regarding the drug pricing measures pending in Congress. On June 22, 2021, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden released legislative principles that, among other things, would...more
Dans la continuité de son Plan d’action pour les médicaments innovants exposé début 2020, la Haute Autorité de santé a mis à jour sa doctrine d’évaluation des médicaments. ...more
On September 30, 2020, the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) announced the launch of new Procedures for CADTH Drug Reimbursement Reviews (updated October 29, 2020), which harmonize procedures under...more
McDermott’s cross-functional team of life sciences professionals present the inaugural Munich Life Sciences Bootcamp focusing on issues and trends important to life sciences companies. This half-day program is designed for...more
Life Beyond FDA Clearance or Approval: The Reimbursement Challenge - To medical device manufacturers, winning premarket approval or 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is only half the battle....more
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
At least once a month, life science clients reach out to us to ask us about best practices on a particular topic or to benchmark a proposed activity against what others in the industry might be doing. One such request,...more