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Health Care Week in Review: Biden Administration Announces $100 Million for ACA Marketplace Navigators and $81.3 Million for...

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

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Remote Prescribing of Controlled Substances via Telehealth: Stakeholders Urge DEA to Address Geographic Red Flag for Pharmacists

Due to convenience and effectiveness, patients are increasingly seeking care via telehealth, including for conditions that require treatment with medication. During the pandemic, patients gained access to telehealth for...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Changes to the Substance Use Disorder Confidentiality Regulation: Implications for Stakeholders

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule intended to implement a 2020 modification to the federal substance use disorder (SUD) privacy statute. The final rule more closely aligns the...more

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[Webinar] Improving Access to Care for Pregnant and Postpartum People With Opioid Use Disorder - March 5th, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET

In recent years, drug-related overdoses have become a leading cause of death during pregnancy and the postpartum period, exacerbating a mounting maternal mortality crisis and underscoring the need for improved access to care...more

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Too Much Of A Good Thing?

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F. Scott Fitzgerald famously declared that “Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right.” That may be true, but it now appears that it may have been “Special K” that proved the undoing of beloved actor...more

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Health & Human Services Releases Final Rule for Opioid Treatment Programs

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (“SAMHSA”) published a final rule on Feb. 2, 2024, that cemented significant Pandemic-era flexibilities...more

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New SAMHSA Rule Expands Access to Medications for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder

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On February 2nd, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule expanding patient access to medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder (“OUD”). This new final rule implements changes...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: February 2, 2024

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House Energy and Commerce Committee Holds Hearing on Healthcare Costs. The hearing included discussion on what factors are causing cost increases for individuals, for the healthcare sector, and for federal health programs...more

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The Opioid Crisis and Pharma Accountability: The Road So Far

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In 2020, over 142 million prescriptions for opioid medications were filled in the U.S. That same year, 16,416 people died from overdoses on prescription opioids—a 376% increase from 1999....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] 2023 Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference - November 5th - 7th, Washington, DC

Hear directly from the enforcement community - Want to gain insight into properly monitoring, detecting, investigating, and managing violations? Join us at HCCA’s Annual Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference to...more

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Health Care Week In Review: Biden Administration Releases Rules and Awards for Rural Residency Programs

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

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DEA Releases Proposed Rules Regarding Telemedicine Prescribing of Controlled Substances

The Big Picture - On February 24, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), issued two proposed rules that address the prescribing of controlled...more

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The Fight to End the Nation’s Overdose Epidemic and Restore Compassionate Care

In 2021, drug-related overdose deaths topped 107,000. Despite a nearly 50% decrease in opioid prescribing over the past decade, drug overdose mortality continues to trend in the wrong direction. In the face of these...more

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Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - September 2022

It is an old problem in medical care -- and human life. The stigma of some human conditions -- weight gain, mental health, substance abuse, and now monkey pox, to name a few -- brings shame. And shame brings silence. And...more

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Outlook for Action on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Initiatives

Prompted by rising rates of overdose deaths, suicides and incidence of mental illness in at-risk populations, such as children, Congress has spent the better part of the year working in a bipartisan manner to develop and...more

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Social media blamed for fueling opioid crisis for the young

The social media sites that young folks so adore also have turned into virtual illicit drug bazaars, helping to explain the exploding problems with the powerful synthetic painkiller fentanyl and why opioids and overdoses of...more

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CDC Updates Guidance on Opioid Prescriptions

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In a shift from prior policy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) proposed on February 22, 2022, new guidelines for prescribing opioid painkillers. The new guidance largely avoids figures on dosage strength...more

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Experts still tussle with proper prescribing of opioid painkillers

As the opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis rages, experts - after decades now of experience with powerful painkillers - continue to struggle with their proper handling and prescribing. The federal Centers for Disease...more

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Civil justice system works, as tribes show in major opioid settlements

No matter how wrong-headed critics may assail the civil justice system, Native Americans have clear evidence that liability lawsuits really do work. For hundreds of tribes and their members, the pursuit of  justice in the...more

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With 100,000 deaths, 2021 shatters grim record in opioid crisis

Federal officials have confirmed that 2021 will go in the record books as a calamitous time in the battle against the opioid painkiller abuse and overdose crisis, with more than 100,000 U.S. lives lost this year alone to a...more

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Opioid court cases offer hard evidence: Path to justice can be rocky

Patients who say they were injured by wealthy corporations must possess great fortitude as they seek justice in the civil system, as has been reaffirmed by the courts in California and Oklahoma that rejected separate cases...more

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With $ billions but no apologies or remorse, notorious opioid bankruptcy settles

In a landmark opioid painkiller case, a federal bankruptcy judge has approved what potentially may be a $10-billion settlement. It included a plutocratic clan winning sweeping protections from further civil lawsuits by...more

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Connecticut Legislature Passes Act to Help Address the Opioid Epidemic

On July 6, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Public Act 21-113 titled “An Act Concerning Opioids” (PA 21-113), which establishes pilot programs to help serve persons with opioid use disorder in urban,...more

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As opioid drug-case settlement advances, fentanyl deaths spike in D.C. area

Just as attorneys generals for more than a dozen states inch toward a multibillion-dollar settlement with a drug maker faulted for its big role in the start of the opioid abuse and drug overdose crisis, that health menace is...more

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U.S. ends confusion and expands prescribing of opioid-fighting medication

Health workers with legal prescribing privileges have gotten newly revised federal guidelines — once again — making it easier for them to help those addicted to powerful opioid painkillers by prescribing buprenorphine,...more

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