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60 Days After Loper: Health Care Impact of Chevron Deference's End

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued its highly anticipated ruling in a pair of cases challenging the long-standing Chevron doctrine on June 28, 2024. Foreshadowed by decisions in recent years slighting Chevron, it...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, Issue 4, August 2024

Welcome to our fourth issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we address a variety of topics including a recent SCOTUS ruling and the potential impact on CMS, issues of patient...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, Issue 3, July 2024

Welcome to our third issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter! We are winding down the summer with our talented group of law students and they have continued to research and write, shadow...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

SCOTUS Punts on EMTALA Preemption Question

On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Idaho v. United States on procedural grounds and sent the case back to the Ninth Circuit. By doing so, the Supreme Court reinstated the preliminary injunction issued by the...more

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Post-Chevron Health Care Regulations: The Dawn of a New Day

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On June 28, the US Supreme Court overturned the Chevron doctrine — the legal principle that the judiciary should defer to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. Chevron reflected the view...more

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Supreme Court Restores the EMTALA Exception to Idaho's Abortion Ban for Now

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On June 27, 2024, the United States Supreme Court temporarily restored the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) exception to Idaho’s abortion ban. As a result, Idaho hospitals may perform abortions in EMTALA...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

SCOTUS to Review Case Impacting Medicare Reimbursement for Hospitals Treating Low-Income Patients

On June 10, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Becerra for the October 2024 – 2025 term to review a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling potentially affecting up to $4 billion...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Health Record - Health Law Insights, Issue 2, June 2024

Welcome to our second issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter! SCOTUS Agrees to Review Medicare DSH Payments Case - “The suit, Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Becerra, was originally filed in...more

King & Spalding

Medicare Advantage Payors Have Not Redressed 340B Underpayments

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CMS recently published its remedy in response to the Supreme Court’s decision that CMS’s 340B outpatient drug payment policy violated the Medicare statute. Many hospitals that are 340B covered entities will now receive tens...more

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SCOTUS Lets National Practitioner Data Bank Safeguards Stand

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Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a case challenging the sufficiency of due process protections in the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) and National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), effectively...more

King & Spalding

CMS Announces Proposed $9 Billion Remedy for Hospitals Underpaid by Unlawful Rate Cut for 340B Drugs

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On July 7, 2023, CMS published its highly-anticipated proposed rule identifying its remedy to reimburse hospitals unpaid by its unlawful 340B drug payment policy (the Proposed Rule). While the Supreme Court found CMS’s 340B...more

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False Claims Act Update: A Mid-Year Review (2023)

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The Supreme Court issued a number of headline-grabbing decisions this term on topics like religious accommodation, LGBTQ protections, and consideration of race in college admissions. These decisions are wide-reaching and...more

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Post-Dobbs Hospital Risk Assessment, Part 1: Evaluating the Impact on Delivery of Abortion Services

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In the landmark case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the US Supreme Court overturned its prior rulings in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, which had recognized a...more

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Supreme Court Ruling in AHA v. Becerra May Affect 340B Hospitals' Reimbursement Rights Against Medicare Advantage Plans

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Hospitals that participate in the 340B program may be entitled to additional monies from Medicare Advantage plans in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in AHA v. Becerra. In AHA v. Becerra, a unanimous Supreme Court...more

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Recent Developments to the 340B Drug Pricing Program

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In this episode Victoria Hamscho, Andrew Ruskin, and Leah Richardson provide an update on key developments to the 340B Program. They discuss the effects of the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this year overturning 340B...more

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Conducting a Post-Dobbs Risk Assessment: A Guide for Hospitals and AMCs

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Since the US Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (Dobbs) in June 2022, the impact of the Court’s decision continues to ripple across the health care delivery system. In this multi-part series,...more

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Challenging the Constitutionality of the FTC’s Fundamental Structure/Processes

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Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments in Axon Enterprises- With the October 2022 term of the U.S. Supreme Court (“Court”) now underway, health care providers and others in the health care industry contemplating merger and...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

340B Update: District Court Rejects 2022 Payment Methodology for 340B Hospitals Following Supreme Court Win

We follow up on our previous blog post concerning the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in favor of 340B hospitals. The Supreme Court previously held that “absent a survey of hospitals’ acquisition costs, HHS may not vary...more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

U.S. District Court Judge Vacates Unlawful Drug Reimbursement Rate For 340B Hospitals for Remainder of 2022

As we reported previously in this post on our Healthcare Perspectives blog, the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this summer held that the federal government improperly lowered drug reimbursement payments to certain 340B hospitals...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

In Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation, the Supreme Court Reaffirmed Reduced Disproportionate Share Hospital Payments

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation and resolved a split between the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the 6th, 9th and District of Columbia Circuits in favor of how the Department of...more

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CMS Issues Outpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule for CY 2023

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On July 15, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule to update the payment policies, payment rates, and other provisions for services furnished under the Medicare Outpatient...more

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CMS Says That EMTALA Overrides State Law in Pregnancy Emergencies

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On July 11, 2022, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, issued a letter to hospitals stating that the Federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) requires physicians and...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

HHS Issues Reminder about EMTALA Obligations to Pregnant Women Post-Dobbs

The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (“Secretary”) issued a letter to healthcare providers ("Letter") and associated guidance on July 11, 2022, reminding applicable providers of their EMTALA...more

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Supreme Court Backs Rule That Decreases Medicare Payments to Safety-Net Hospitals

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The U.S. Supreme Court settled an Administrative Procedures Act (APA) dispute on June 24, 2022, involving Medicare's formula to adjust rates paid to safety-net hospitals, clarifying a statute that dictates how to calculate...more

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Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation: Supreme Court Validates HHS Read of Medicare DSH Fraction Statute

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June 27, 2022 Key Takeaways: Late last week, the Supreme Court released its opinion in Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation, a case that involves the complex but important question regarding how to calculate the Medicare and...more

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