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Trending in Telehealth: April 2025

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Trending in Telehealth highlights monthly state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and...more

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An MA Extravaganza: Overview of the Final Rule and Rate Announcement

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This past week, the Trump administration put its first major stamp on the Medicare Advantage (MA) program. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released two final regulatory documents related to MA: - The...more

McCarter & English, LLP

DEA Telemedicine Update

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), in concert with other federal agencies, has taken various steps in the past few months to strengthen a practitioner’s ability to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine, a...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

HHS Announces Temporary Copay Accumulator Non-Enforcement Policy

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The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has filed court pleadings stating that it does not intend to initiate enforcement actions against plans that maintain copay accumulator programs....more

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Federal Government Announces Enforcement Discretion, Deferral For Certain Price Disclosures And Future Rulemakings

Health plans and issuers racing to implement overlapping price transparency and disclosure requirements in response to the Transparency in Coverage final rule (TiC Final Rule) and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021...more

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Part Two: The MFN Drug Pricing Rule and the Rebate Rule: Where Do We Go From Here?

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In part two, Wiley Health Care Practice partners Dot Powell-Woodson and Rachel Alexander continue their discussion of the Most-Favored Nations (MFN) Rule and the Rebate Rule and look at the potential impacts of these Final...more

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Part One: Two new Medicare Drug Pricing Rules in One Day: What are the MFN and the Rebate Drug Pricing Rules?

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In part one, Wiley Health Care Practice partners Dot Powell-Woodson and Rachel Alexander break down the background, substance, and procedural issues of the two Final Drug Pricing Rules released on November 30, 2020: the...more

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CMS Delays Price Transparency, Doubles Down on Site-Neutral and 340B Payment Policies in CY 2020 OPPS Final Rule

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Late last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the CY 2020 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (“OPPS”) final rule [CMS-1717-FC]. While many hospitals had hoped for relief from recent...more

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Hazardous waste pharmaceuticals rulemaking

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s final rule governing management of hazardous waste pharmaceuticals became effective August 21, 2019. The new regulations apply to the management of hazardous waste pharmaceuticals by...more

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Court Invalidates Final Rule Requiring Advertisements to List Drug Prices Finding that CMS Exceeded Its Statutory Authority

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In a much anticipated decision, a federal judge ruled this week that the Trump Administration’s rule requiring drug manufacturers to list drug prices in television advertisements exceeds the agency’s authority. Back in May...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

CMS Amends Regulations to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-Of-Pocket Expenses in Medicare Advantage and Part D Prescription Drug...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a final rule, to be published on May 23, 2019, amending the Medicare Advantage program (Part C) and Prescription Drug Benefit program (Part D) regulations. ...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

CMS Final Rule on Drug Pricing Transparency in Consumer Television Ads

On May 10, 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid published a Final Rule on drug pricing transparency in consumer advertisements. ...more

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