The topic of “food as medicine” has gained increased attention recently, driven by a growing recognition of the role nutrition plays in preventing and managing chronic diseases. This article provides a high-level overview of the…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Insurance
On April 23, 2025, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied PointClickCare Technologies, Inc.’s petition for en banc review in Real Time Medical Systems, LLC v. PointClickCare. A Fourth Circuit panel previously…
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/ Business Torts, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
Private labels are not a new concept – many consumers have purchased private label products for years, but their use is becoming more prevalent and ubiquitous in the market as demand for private labels continues to rise. …
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Intellectual Property
On April 27, 2025, the Washington Legislature delivered to Governor Bob Ferguson’s desk Senate Bill (SB) 5814, a sweeping tax bill that, among other changes, would expand the state’s retail sales and use tax to sales of digital…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Science, Computers, & Technology, Taxation
The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed a district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants for the plaintiff’s failure to identify the trade secrets at issue with sufficient particularity…
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/ Business Torts, Intellectual Property
The IRS issued Notice 2025-19, inviting the public to submit recommendations for items to include in the IRS’s 2025-2026 Priority Guidance Plan. The IRS uses the Priority Guidance Plan to identify and prioritize the tax issues…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Taxation
To state the obvious, a lot has happened in healthcare over the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term. But how much?…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics, Health
On 24 April 2025, the SFO published new guidance1 for companies in relation to self-reporting, co-operation, and when they can expect to be invited to engage in negotiations for a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) as an…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Criminal Law
Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick summary…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Health
Media reports about the Trump administration’s desire to revoke the tax-exempt status of prominent charitable organizations recently jolted the United States’s nonprofit community with anxiety over the impact potential changes…
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/ Administrative Law, Nonprofit Law, Taxation
Washington is the first state to enact the Uniform Antitrust Premerger Notification Act, which requires merging parties that submit a federal filing under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 18(a)) to also submit the…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Mergers & Acquisitions
After a two-week recess, lawmakers are back on Capitol Hill to begin marking up their budget reconciliation legislation. The budget resolution that passed in early April instructs committees to spend or save a certain amount…
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/ Elections & Politics, Finance & Banking, Health
HELP Committee Releases 340B Report. Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Chair Cassidy (R-LA) released findings from his investigation and laid out potential reforms to the 340B Drug Pricing Program…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Immigration Law
Below is a tracker of healthcare-related executive orders (EOs) issued by the Trump administration, including overviews of each EO and the date each EO was signed. We will regularly update this tracker as additional EOs are…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Government Contracting, Health
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights key regulatory and enforcement activity for March 2025. This month features:
- Noteworthy enforcement actions demonstrating that the Anti-Kickback Statute…
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/ Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Health
