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Annual Limits on Qualified Plans for 2025

On November 1, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2024-80, which sets forth the 2025 cost-of-living adjustments affecting dollar limits on benefits and contributions for qualified retirement plans. The...more

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Healthcare Preview for the Week of: November 12, 2024

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Election Day 2024 has come and gone. Republicans have all but officially achieved a trifecta – control of the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives. Both the House and Senate return today for the lame duck...more

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Final Rules Released: What They Mean for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Benefits

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Previously published in Healthcare News and Healthcare Michigan - On Sept. 9, 2024, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (collectively “the Departments”) released final rules strengthening and...more

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Illinois Dental Practices Face New Third-Party Financing Guardrails in 2025

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In August, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law HB 4891 that amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act to include significant guardrails for dental practices looking to offer third-party financing in dental offices in...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - December 6th, Houston, TX

Looking for compliance education and networking in your area? HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences offer practitioners convenient, local compliance education on a wide variety of current and emerging topics...more

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Final Medicare Overpayment Rules a Mixed Bag for Providers

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released highly anticipated updates this month to the Medicare regulations interpreting the federal 60-day overpayment refund requirement (the Overpayment Statute). The...more

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Hospice Insights Podcast - Meet the New Laws, Same as the Old Laws: Overpayment Recoupment Update

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Hospices that have been audited have to decide how to address any alleged overpayment identified by the auditor, whether through a voluntary repayment, recoupment, or applying for an extended repayment schedule. CMS recently...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Surprise, Surprise! No Surprise Billing Regulations Upheld

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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld regulations defining the qualifying payment amount (QPA). The QPA is a key factor in determining how much individuals and health plans must pay out-of-network providers in...more

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[Podcast] Health Care Transaction Laws Unwrapped: Deal Impacts for Private Equity Firms, MSOs & DSOs

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On this episode of Ropes & Gray’s Health Care Transaction Laws Unwrapped podcast series, health care attorneys Christina Bergeron, Devin Cohen and Natalie LaRue discuss recent developments in state health care transaction...more

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Understanding IRS Encouragement of PLRs for Healthcare Entities and Assessing Healthcare Corporate and Tax Structure For Tax...

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The IRS has recently been urging healthcare entities, particularly those involving physicians and private investors, to seek private letter rulings (PLRs) to clarify the tax implications of their ownership structures. This...more

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New York State Department of Health Adopts Hospital Cybersecurity Regulations

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In November 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced proposed regulations that would be the first state regulations for hospitals in New York. The governor described the proposed regulation as a “nation-leading...more

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Inaugural Meeting for FDA's Digital Health Advisory Committee to Focus on GenAI-enabled Medical Devices

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ("FDA") new advisory committee on digital health is set to examine its approach for evaluating and regulating the safety and effectiveness of medical devices utilizing generative...more

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Otsuka Pharm. Co., Ltd. v. Lupin Ltd. - Jynarque® (tolvaptan)

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Case Name: Otsuka Pharm. Co., Ltd. v. Lupin Ltd., Civ. No. 21-900-RGA, 2024 WL 3618123 (D. Del. July 31, 2024) (Andrews, J.)....more

Maynard Nexsen

Key Changes and Compliance Deadlines

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On April 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published new HIPAA regulations imposing additional requirements on covered entities to safeguard the privacy of protected health information (“PHI”)...more

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Kentucky Attorney General Determines Board of Pharmacy Lacks Statutory Authority to Regulate Non-Resident Pharmacists

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The Kentucky Attorney General published a formal opinion yesterday confirming that the Board of Pharmacy cannot require the licensure of pharmacists who reside outside of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The proposed...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Less, but Still More: FTC Premerger Notification Final Rule

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In connection with certain mergers and acquisitions, the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice review information provided by parties about proposed transactions reportable under the Hart-Scott-Rodino...more

Conn Maciel Carey LLP

Trump 2.0, OSHA: Expect Shifts in Federal Enforcement and Rulemaking Priorities As Well As More Aggressive State Plan Enforcement

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As the dust settles on the 2024 Election Cycle and the pundits continue analyzing and dissecting the results, the OSHA/MSHA Team at Conn Maciel Carey draws from decades of experience representing employers during Republican...more

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DOJ Issues Rule on Accessibility of Medical Diagnostic Equipment With Broad Implications for Healthcare Industry

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently published a final rule on the accessibility of medical diagnostic equipment (MDE) and other accessibility-related practices that promises to have broad impact on the health care...more

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6 Important Takeaways for HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates from 2024 NIST HHS OCR Conference

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On October 23-24, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Technology Laboratory hosted the Safeguarding...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - November 15th, Nashville, TN

Looking for compliance education and networking in your area? HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences offer practitioners convenient, local compliance education on a wide variety of current and emerging topics...more

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Benefit Plan Deadlines Extended for Individuals Affected by Recent Natural Disasters

Last week, the U.S. Departments of Labor and Treasury issued a Joint Notice requiring the extension of certain benefit plan deadlines for individuals affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton and Tropical Storm Helene.[1] The...more

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Key Takeaways From TEDAI 2024

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Foley & Larder LLP recently sponsored TEDAI 2024 in San Francisco, drawing industry leaders and change makers to share meaningful new ideas in the rapidly developing area of artificial intelligence (AI). Four Foley partners,...more

Maynard Nexsen

Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 214: Pharma Manufacturing in North Carolina with Ed...

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Recorded at NC Life Sciences Organization’s Annual Meeting, Heather and Matthew welcome Ed Hernandez, who oversees drug product manufacturing at Eli Lilly, an international pharmaceutical company. Ed discusses how Eli Lilly...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Prenatal Vaccines in Medicaid and CHIP Current Reimbursement Levels and Policy Solutions to Increase Access

Executive Summary - Despite the demonstrated effectiveness of prenatal vaccines, uptake remains low. This puts mothers and babies at risk. Vaccines administered prenatally (i.e., during a pregnancy) provide protective...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

New York Focuses on Healthcare Cybersecurity: Recent Regulatory and Enforcement Activities

The healthcare sector has seen an alarming uptick in cybersecurity incidents, including ransomware attacks, in recent years. In response to these cybersecurity threats, New York State is ramping-up efforts to protect patient...more

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