From pharmaceuticals to cosmetics, preemption to expert preclusion, New York state and federal courts issued decisions in 2023, which further shaped the landscape in the medical and life sciences legal world. To prepare the...more
THIS WEEK’S DOSE - Uncharted Territory in the House: The House voted to remove Rep. McCarthy (R-CA) as Speaker of the House, then recessed until at least October 11, when the House is slated to reconvene to elect a new...more
On September 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported that the federal Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury departments are seeking public input on the possibility of...more
In its August 15, 2023, Enforcement listserv notice, the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) published its Work Plan Updates for August. This article will highlight three of the...more
On February 4, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), U.S. Department of the Treasury, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued subregulatory guidance that provides greater flexibility and clarifies a...more
On March 26, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a new Federal Register notice finally announcing the fee rates under the Over-the-Counter (OTC) Monograph Drug User Fee Program for Fiscal Year 2021. As we...more
On January 27, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration held its second webinar since the enactment of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (the CARES Act) in March 2020, to further discuss over-the-counter...more
On December 29, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration published a Federal Register notice setting the fee rates under the Over-the-Counter Monograph User Fee Act (OMUFA) Program for Fiscal Year 2021. Reed Tech...more
On January 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “cease further collection efforts” related to the Over-the-Counter (OTC) Drug Monograph User Fee...more
Last week, on December 29, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) published a notice setting the amount of new annual facility fees for both for over-the-counter (“OTC”) monograph drug product manufacturers and for...more
On December 29, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in a Federal Register notice the 2021 fee schedule for its Over-the-Counter Monograph Drug User Fee Program. That user fee program was an addition...more
On December 15, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the first over-the-counter (OTC) fully at-home diagnostic test for COVID-19. The Ellume COVID-19 Home...more
Back in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, we published a post outlining the different kinds of diagnostic tests that were being marketed and the different roles of the two main federal regulators that oversee the...more
While the United States now leads the world with the number of reported cases of COVID-19, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (or “the Act”) takes major, though perhaps still incomplete, steps...more