The Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) user fee negotiations may have hit an iceberg, but it did not sink all the legislative riders that accompanied this summer’s House and Senate bills. Buried within the...more
The Act reauthorizes FDA’s user fee programs but omits several proposed reforms to the FDA regulatory framework, setting the stage for further negotiations in Congress. Key Points: ..Congress authorized FDA to...more
The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) user fee programs, which pay the salaries of agency staff who review drug and medical device applications, are set to expire on October 1, 2022. These include the Prescription Drug...more
Update on UFA Reauthorization Legislation - As outlined in Akin Gump’s previous analysis, the current five-year authorization of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) user fee programs for branded/reference drugs and...more
With just a few short weeks left until August recess, there is no shortage of items on the congressional to-do list. The latest round of Supreme Court decisions has inspired new action within Congress to pass legislation...more
On May 27, 2022, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (“HELP”) Committee leaders introduced the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Landmark Advancements Act of 2022 (“FDASLA Act of 2022”), which, if passed,...more
Unexpected events last month re-energized two key policy debates. In early May, a leaked draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito showed that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade in its decision of Dobbs v....more
On May 4, 2022, House Energy and Commerce (“E&C”) Committee leaders unveiled the legislative package to reauthorize the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) user fee agreements (the “House Draft”)...more
Congress recently returned from its two-week recess with an extensive to-do list. Between now and the August recess, the House will be in session for a total of 32 legislative days, and the Senate will be in for 54...more
While Congress has a two-week recess in April, there are many priority items on the agenda this month. Less than two weeks after signing the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 spending package, President Biden released his budget for FY...more
A year into the current public health emergency, the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) announced on Thursday, April 15, 2021, that the center is “prioritizing and triaging our work using existing...more
On August 19, 2020, the Trump administration made a major announcement that marks the latest development in the ever-evolving saga of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) oversight of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs)....more
As discussed in an earlier blog post, the process for reauthorizing human medical product user fee programs at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for another 5-year period is getting started this year. Below we highlight...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Healthcare Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and...more
Alston & Bird’s Week in Review provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and Congressional committee action; reports, studies, and analyses; and other health...more
It’s hard to believe a decade has passed since we delivered our first edition of Pro Te: Solutio to your door. Those years have brought enormous changes in the world and in our industry. Innovation has driven everything we...more
• Two new draft guidances aim to conform FDA’s existing digital health-related policies to the software exemptions from the device definition added by Cures, and are largely faithful to those legislative provisions. • The...more
On October 30, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) released its final De Novo request guidance document entitled, De Novo Classification Process (Evaluation of Automatic Class III Designation) (Final...more
On August 18, 2017, in the nick of time, President Trump signed the FDA User Fee Reauthorization Bill of 2017 (FDARA) (H.R. 2430) into law, bringing a sigh of relief from both FDA and Industry. The law reauthorizes the...more
On August 29, 2017, FDA published a Federal Register notice with the device user fees for the Agency’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, which begins on October 1, 2017. Due to statutory increases, inflation adjustments and target...more
Following nearly two years of negotiations and hearings examining the Generic Drug User Fee Amendments (GDUFA) and the Biosimilar User Fee Act (BsUFA), the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) and the Medical Device User...more
On July 12, the House passed a five-year reauthorization of four different user fee agreements that account for over a quarter of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) overall funding. The legislation, titled "The Food and...more
The Trump White House released a Statement of Administration Policy on Wednesday in response to the House of Representatives’ passage of H.R. 2430, a bill that would reauthorize the use of four FDA user fee programs: the...more