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Connecticut Law Imposes New Requirements on Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, Defined to Include Device and Cosmetic Manufacturers,...

Public Act No. 23-171: An Act Protecting Patients and Prohibiting Unnecessary Health Care Costs (Act) took effect in Connecticut on October 1, 2023. Under the Act, a pharmaceutical manufacturer (PM) that employs...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

Connecticut Places Checks on PBM Contracts in Support of 340B Covered Entities

On June 27, 2023, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Public Act 23-171“An Act Protecting Patients and Prohibiting Unnecessary Health Care Costs” (Act), which includes changes to the state’s implementation of the...more

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Innovative Medicines Canada proposes framework for innovative agreements for drug reimbursement

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Pharmaceutical manufacturers in Canada often enter into Product Listing Agreements (PLA), particularly with public payors, to facilitate their drug being reimbursed. It is common for PLAs to take the form of a first dollar...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] What Will the Midterm Elections Mean for Health Care? - September 28th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

Americans are strongly focused on the upcoming midterm elections. An NBC News survey shows that 68% of Republicans and 66% of Democrats are expressing high interest in the midterms. Which issues are most critical to voters...more

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Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - July 2022

The 21st century American reality is if you get sick, really sick,you're in for a money nightmare on top of the emotional and physical toll of serious disease. Medical costs keep skyrocketing with no sign of easing....more

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Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - March 2022

Whatever your political leanings, you have to appreciate President Biden's deep personal and tragic connection to the No. 2 killer of Americans, cancer. The disease killed his oldest adult son in the prime of his life, right...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

The Manatt State Cost Containment Update - February 2022: Manatt Spotlights

February Spotlight - In each edition, Manatt will feature a “deep dive” topic that shares new cross-cutting benchmarking program developments as states seek to evolve and advance their cost growth benchmarking programs to...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law

Summer Reruns: ‘340B Contract Pharmacy Saga’ Back in the Spotlight as OGC Withdraws Advisory Opinion

Like the Brood X cicadas emerging from their 17-year chthonic slumber, summer 2021 saw the reemergence of something else set to dominate headlines: 340B contract pharmacies.  Given the link between the Medicaid drug rebate...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

State Drug Affordability Boards: Legislative Landscape and Future Implications

Editor’s Note: Through a new survey of 50 states plus D.C., summarized below, Manatt maps today’s legislative landscape for state drug affordability boards—and identifies the potential legal and market implications to come....more

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Administration Issues Executive Order on Medicare Drug Pricing Which Attempts to Impose Price Controls on Drugs Purchased by the...

Yesterday, the President issued an executive order (EO) on drug pricing for pharmaceuticals covered under Medicare parts B and D. The EO, in essence, proposes a form of price controls for drugs covered under Medicare parts B...more

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Uncertainty on Drug Pricing Remains Following Trump Administration Executive Orders

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On July 24 2020, President Trump signed three Executive Orders targeting prescription drug prices and proposed a fourth.  The Orders represent the Trump Administration's latest effort to implement previously outlined...more

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Vermont Health Care Update | Week 18

House committees consider Interstate Nurse Licensure Compact  - The House Health Care and Government Operations Committees held separate hearings on Tuesday on S.125, a bill that allows Vermont to join the Interstate Nurse...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Bipartisan Rx for America’s Healthcare: A Practical Path to Reform

Tom Daschle, Cochair, Former Senate Majority Leader, Co-Founder, Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) - Andy Slavitt, Cochair, Senior Advisor, BPC, Former Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - ...more

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[Webinar] What Will Super Tuesday Mean for Healthcare? - March 2nd, 1:00 pm ET

With healthcare playing such a central role in the election, what could the Super Tuesday results mean for healthcare stakeholders? On March 2—the day before Super Tuesday—Manatt Health will explore these questions in a new...more

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Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) report upward trend of...

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CIHI: On December 17, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) published statistics on drug spending, finding that in 2018, around 40% of drug spending was spent on 2% of beneficiaries. Out of this 2%, three out...more

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California, Big Blues, and hospitals join the attack on sky-high drug prices

Big Pharma, with its relentless price gouging, may finally have poked in the eye the wrong people. But even as patients wait to see if hospitals, and now states and insurers, can beat down skyrocketing drug prices, isn’t it...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Drug Pricing Concerns Drive Continued DOJ Focus on Life Sciences Companies

In 2019, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) enforcement activity targeting drug and device manufacturers jumped sharply over the prior year, reflecting an increased focus on fraud and abuse in the life sciences sector. More...more

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Here’s a cause for anger and despair: We’re all forced to pay $8,000 ‘health tax’

Even as economic inequity and inequality fuel a nationwide plague of “deaths of despair,” a runaway and inefficient health system hits Americans hard in their pocketbooks, in effect imposing an $8,000 annual tax on every...more

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U.S. orders price postings in hopes of curbing hospitals’ trillion-dollar costs

The Trump Administration deserves credit for doing something right on hospital prices — but with what likely will be ineffective results....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

[Podcast] What's New In Washington: What Congress Is Doing About Drug Pricing and Surprise Medical Billing

In this episode, Akin Gump health care and life sciences senior counsel Taylor Jones and public law and policy senior policy advisor Julie Nolan discuss draft legislation currently on Capitol Hill focusing on drug pricing and...more

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Health insurance? It’s now about the price of a new car each year.

Millions of Americans may sigh at Bertha, Barney, or Betty, or whatever they’ve nicknamed the beat-up family vehicle parked out front: “Wouldn’t it be great, if only we could afford a nicer, newer model?”...more

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$14k to treat iron-poor blood? That’s rich. As is politicians’ health care frenzy.

Iron poor blood? For many of a certain age, mere mention of that phrase conjures the major advertising campaigns of yore for a popular, over-the-counter nostrum called Geritol. The tonic is still around and sells for less...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Sitting Here on Capitol Hill: Congressional Developments on Life Science and Consumer Product Issues - July 2019

Legislation - Biologics: Senate Health Committee Passes Bipartisan Legislation to Lower Health Care Costs - During the last week of June, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee approved...more

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Senate Bipartisan Discussion Draft Released to Lower Health Care Costs, Address Surprise Billing

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On May 23, 2019, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA) released the Lower Health Care Costs Act of 2019 – bipartisan draft legislation to reduce...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

ML Strategies Health Care Preview - May 2019 #3

This week, all is quiet in the Senate as stakeholders await the release of the highly anticipated cost-containment package that is being developed by the HELP and Finance committees. While the details are not yet public – a...more

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