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Holland & Knight Health Dose: March 12, 2024

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Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more

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Holland & Knight Health Dose: February 27, 2024

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Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more

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Cozen Currents: The Bipartisan Impact of Partisan Legislation

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The Cozen Lens- •Republicans have been talking a big game about repealing the Inflation Reduction Act in its entirety but actually going through with it will be more difficult. •Non-defense spending is poised to be hit...more

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2022 Congressional Outlook and Top 10 Federal Health Policy Issues to Watch

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As Congress reconvenes, it faces a packed agenda in a legislative year that will be shortened by the upcoming midterm elections and remains buffeted by the persistent coronavirus pandemic. The list of healthcare priorities is...more

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Budget Resolutions, Reconciliation And Tax Increases: Is it Time For The Weight-Challenged Individual To Sing?

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Procedural Mumbo Jumbo? Remember your civics class in elementary school? * * * . What’s that? Not really. * * *. Doodling, you say? * * * . The principal’s office? OK, what about high school social studies? * * * ....more

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Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines, November 2020 # 6

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In Washington: The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released drafts of all 12 annual spending bills for 2021, setting up negotiations for a deal ahead of the Dec. 11 deadline to keep the government-funded. Bogged...more

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High Court Checks Government in Risk Corridors Case

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In Maine Community, the US Supreme Court found on April 27, 2020, that the Risk Corridors program created by Congress was a “money-mandating obligation” requiring the federal government to make payments under Section 1342 of...more

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Health Insurance Exchanges: A $12B Judgment

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The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that the federal government must pay over $12 billion to certain health insurers that participated in health insurance exchanges in the first three years that those exchanges were in...more

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SCOTUS Rules Government Must Pay $12 Billion to Unprofitable ACA Insurers

Despite Congress’ efforts to use riders to neutralize a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Act), the Federal government (Government) owes certain insurers $12 billion....more

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Supreme Court Finds Insurers Entitled To Millions In ACA Payments

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On April 27, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the federal government is on the hook for $12 billion it failed to pay insurers under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) risk-mitigation program known as the Risk Corridors Program. ...more

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Supreme Court: The ACA & Risk Corridor Obligations

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The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Maine Community Health Options v. United States, is a major decision affecting healthcare and resolving a significant Obamacare dispute. The Affordable Care Act famously established online...more

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Supreme Court Issues Long Awaited Ruling on Affordable Care Act Risk Corridors Program

The Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling on April 27, 2020, directed at a more than $12 billion challenge related to the temporary risk corridors program established by the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA”). Challenges...more

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Supreme Court Decides Moda Health Plan, Inc. v. United States

On April 27, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Moda Health Plan, Inc. v. United States, holding that the Affordable Care Act requires the federal government to compensate insurers for significant losses their health plans...more

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Supreme Court Rules Government Must Pay $12 Billion to Health Insurers Under ACA Risk Corridor Program

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On April 27, 2020, the US Supreme Court ruled by an 8-1 decision that the federal government must pay billions of dollars to health insurers who sold consumer policies on exchanges under the Affordable Care Act’s (“ACA”)...more

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Supreme Court Rules 8-1 That Government Must Pay Health Insurers Under ACA Risk Corridor Program

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In a major win for health insurers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision that the federal government owes roughly $12.3 billion to health insurers who claimed losses under the risk corridor program of the...more

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You’ve Got Another PCORI Fee Coming!: Congress revives the PCORI fee and filing obligations

In the wee hours of December 2019, Congress revived the PCORI fee and filing obligations of employer sponsors of self-insured group health plans. In accordance with the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, employer...more

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The Next Big Things: Insights for 2020

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Autonomous cars, sports betting, and CBD products have burst onto the scene, setting the stage for major developments in how companies do business and how regulators monitor new innovations....more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Health Care Provisions in 2020 Spending Package

On December 20, 2019, the President signed into law a bill to fund the federal government through September 30, 2020. The bill included several important health care provisions but left some longstanding policy challenges...more

Morgan Lewis - Health Law Scan

Extender Funding, Medicare, and ACA Policy Changes Top FY 2020 Appropriations Act

The recently passed FY 2020 Appropriations Act increases funding for US healthcare agencies and programs over FY 2019 levels. The new law limits reauthorization of expiring healthcare extenders to five months, delays a...more

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Full stop - Funding bill repeals Cadillac Tax and includes other provisions impacting group health plans

On December 20, President Trump signed the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (the “Act”), a year-end spending bill that includes key provisions that will affect employer-sponsored benefit plans. This legal alert...more

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Federal Government Funded for Fiscal Year 2020; Surprise Billing and Comprehensive Drug Pricing Legislation Postponed Until 2020

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Last Friday, President Trump signed into law two bipartisan legislative packages that included all twelve Fiscal Year 2020 funding bills. Comprehensive surprise billing and drug pricing legislation were not included in the...more

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The Supreme Court - June 24, 2019

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued four decisions on June 24, 2019: Iancu v. Brunetti, No. 18-302: Respondent Erik Brunetti founded a clothing line that uses as its trademark four letters that though spelled...more

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Weekly Update Newsletter - January 2019

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GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING - According to an article on Law360, American freight shipping company, YRC Worldwide (YRC), was sued in a securities class action lawsuit filed in New York federal court that claims investors paid...more

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Health Care Policy Newsletter - July 2018 pt 2

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Foley & Lardner LLP’s (“Foley”) Bipartisan Public Policy Team is pleased to share our “Public Policy Weekly* Health Care Newsletter” in which we compile the latest Health Care policy news and legislation. *Please note that we...more

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Insurers Not Entitled to Full ACA Risk Corridors Payments Says the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

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Resolving a split in the lower courts, the Federal Circuit issued two decisions on June 14, 2018, wherein the Court held that health insurers Moda Health Plan Inc. (Moda Health) and Land of Lincoln Mutual Health (Land of...more

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