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Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers

Employers Consider Raising Premiums for Unvaccinated Workers

Employers are impacted in many ways by the COVID-19 pandemic, not the least of which are employee health and safety. For the last several months, employers have used mostly soft-sell approaches to encourage their employees to...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Healthy Choices: The Power and Perils of Health and Wellness Claims in Advertising

Even before COVID-19 had turned each of us into an amateur epidemiologist, companies in nearly every industry had begun to recognize the magnetic appeal of health and wellness claims in consumer advertising. Marketers of...more

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The Tech Industry’s Next Frontier?

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Tongue-in-cheek references to Pokémon Go as a health App aside, maybe the tech industry is on to something. In the U.S., seven out of every ten deaths are due to chronic diseases, such as diabetes or heart disease. Perhaps...more

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A&B Healthcare Week in Review

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I. REGULATIONS, NOTICES, & GUIDANCE - On March 29, 2016, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule entitled, “Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs: Mental Health Parity and...more

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FDA Attempts to Clarify Enforcement Position Regarding Evolving Health Technology

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Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a flurry of guidance and draft guidance in an effort to better define the types of products that the FDA will choose to actively regulate. In one of these...more

King & Spalding

FDA Issues Draft Guidance on Medical Device Accessories

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On January 20, 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a draft guidance document titled Medical Device Accessories: Defining Accessories and Classification Pathway for New Accessory Types (January 20, 2015)...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

FDA Policy On Wellness Products Is Healthy For Industry

On Jan. 16, 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration promulgated a much-anticipated draft guidance concerning the classification and regulation of general wellness products. The draft guidance is the FDA’s latest attempt...more

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Medical Device Update: FDA Releases General Wellness Products and Device Accessories Guidance Documents

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Background - On January 20, 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) announced the availability of two draft guidance documents in the Federal Register: “General Wellness: Policy for Low Risk...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Regulating a Healthy Lifestyle? FDA Distributes New Draft Guidance on “General Wellness Products”

On January 16, 2015, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) promulgated a much - anticipated draft guidance concerning the classification and regulation of general wellness products. The draft guidance is the FDA’s latest...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

FDA Issues Guidance for Low-Risk General Wellness Products

On January 20, 2015, the FDA issued draft guidelines designed to give developers whose products and applications promote healthy lifestyles (so-called “general wellness products”) direction on when such products qualify as...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Life Sciences Alert FDA Issues Draft Guidance on General Wellness Products

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On January 16, 2015, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a draft guidance document titled “General Wellness: Policy for Low Risk Devices.” The draft guidance carves out a category of products, deemed “general...more

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FDA Proposes Additional Flexibility for Mobile Health Products

Draft Guidances Address General Wellness Products and Device Accessories - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA or “the Agency”) has announced two more key parameters of its regulatory approach to mobile health...more

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Health Reform + Related Health Policy News - June 2013

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In This Issue: - Top News ..CMS Finalizes MLR Rule for Plans, Maintaining Application to Part D Sponsors ..Early State Filings Show Premium Reductions under ACA ..HHS Received More Than 830 Letters of...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Health Care Reform Update -- May 13, 2013

In This Issue: Implementation of the Affordable Care Act; Other HHS and Federal Regulatory Initiatives; Other Congressional and State Initiatives; Other Health Care News; and Hearings and Mark-Ups Scheduled. ...more

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