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On April 8, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a long-awaited favorable Advisory Opinion (AO 24-02) for a charitable patient assistance program (PAP) focused on rare...more
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued a new favorable advisory opinion regarding patient assistance programs (PAP) for 12 specific disease funds. PAPs help patients pay high cost-sharing obligations for...more
A Virginia Federal Judge recently rejected a challenge to a negative Advisory Opinion issued by the Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) that disapproved of a proposal where certain...more
On December 21, 2023, the OIG issued a favorable advisory opinion (Advisory Opinion 23-11) regarding the proposed subsidization of certain Medicare cost-sharing obligations in the context of a clinical trial. The...more
On October 25, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion 23-08, in which it refused to approve a proposal by a manufacturer and distributor of hearing...more
This opinion addresses a proposed arrangement (“Proposed Arrangement”) by the manufacturer of cochlear implants (“Requestor”), where the Requestor would provide certain patients who receive one of their implants with a free...more
On Thursday, February 23, the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) issued its first Advisory Opinion (“AO”) of the new year – OIG AO No. 23-01 – permitting a drug...more
On December 22, 2022, OIG issued a favorable advisory opinion concluding that it would not impose administrative sanctions on a pharmaceutical manufacturer for providing trial units of a certain antipsychotic drug (Drug) to...more
On October 5, 2022, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) posted Advisory Opinion No. 22-19 (the “Opinion”), which limits the ability of pharmaceutical manufacturers to offer cost-sharing subsidies to Medicare Part D (“Part...more
The Office of Inspector General of the US Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion 22-14 (AO 22-14) on June 29, 2022, concerning continuing education (CE) programs to be offered by an...more
Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) Advisory Opinion 22-13 Issued: June 23, 2022 This opinion addresses a durable medical equipment (“DME”) manufacturer’s arrangements with...more
On June 23, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published Advisory Opinion 22-13, approving an arrangement under which a durable medical equipment (DME) manufacturer...more
This special inaugural issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights noticeable enforcement activity, OIG regulatory developments, CMS regulatory developments and other key developments for healthcare...more
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently published a favorable determination, Advisory Opinion 22-06, on behalf of a biopharmaceutical company (the Requestor) regarding the...more
After years of government skepticism and enforcement activity targeting physician-owned medical device companies, a recent favorable advisory opinion by the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health &...more
On April 11, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion No. 22-06, concluding that a pharmaceutical manufacturer’s sponsored genetic testing and...more
On March 16, 2022, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion 22-05 (Advisory Opinion) in which it declined to impose sanctions against a medical device manufacturer (Requestor) that proposes to pay...more
On Thursday, March 16, the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) issued OIG Advisory Opinion (“AO”) No. 22-05, relating to subsidization of certain Medicare cost-sharing...more
On November 10, 2021, OIG issued Advisory Opinion No. 21-16 permitting an arrangement whereby a drug manufacturer (Requestor) provides free samples of a long-acting injectable atypical antipsychotic drug (the Drug) to certain...more
Over the last two weeks we have seen a flurry of activity from U.S. District Courts across the country in the ongoing contract pharmacy disputes between pharmaceutical manufacturers and HRSA, the agency responsible for...more
Over the last year, covered entities participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program) have anxiously monitored a flurry of litigation that could determine the scope of the 340B Program. The litigation and related...more
In its March 18, 2021 Advisory Opinion (AO), AO 21-01, HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) determined that a pharmaceutical manufacturer that produces a drug as a one-time, potentially curative treatment (the Drug) may...more
On March 18, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a favorable Advisory Opinion No. 21-01 (Opinion) regarding a free drug program sponsored by a pharmaceutical manufacturer of a personalized cell and gene therapy...more
On March 18, 2021, OIG issued Advisory Opinion 21-01, addressing whether a pharmaceutical manufacturer may provide a personalized medicine made from a patient’s own cells as a one-time, potentially curative treatment (the...more
On December 11, 2020, five hospital groups, including the American Hospital Association (“AHA”), and an organization of hospital pharmacists representing participants in the 340B drug pricing program (“340B Program”), filed a...more