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Biden Administration Announces New Efforts to Promote Competition in Health Care

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On December 7, 2023, the Biden Administration announced several new initiatives intended to “promote competition” in the health care sector. These initiatives reflect a broad range of concerns about rising costs in health...more

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NIH Again Refuses to Exercise March-In Rights to Control Drug Price

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In a letter dated March 21, 2023, the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) again refused the request of petitioners to exercise march-in rights under the Bayh-Dole Act to control the price of a drug. Here, as before, the NIH...more

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Health Care Workforce Shortages Persist in Massachusetts and the United States

The United States continues to face an unprecedented health care staffing shortage at the end of 2022. As a result, we have seen a recent increase in federal and state legislative activity focusing on addressing these...more

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A Test Costs What? Pricing and Reimbursing COVID-19 Tests

Out-of-network providers appear to be inflating the price of COVID-19 diagnostic and antibody tests, according to a recent America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) survey. The October 2020 survey reports that out-of-network...more

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COVID-19 Fake Cures | Accuracy In Debt Collection Reporting | North Carolina AG Reelected

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2020 AG Elections- Just Called: Incumbent Attorney General Wins Second Term in North Carolina- •North Carolina AG Josh Stein (D) won reelection in a closely watched race over Jim O’Neill (R) by a margin of 51% to 49.9%....more

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Pricing Controls under the Defense Production Act

With the federal government’s increasing focus on enforcing price gouging compliance, attention has turned to the Defense Production Act (the “DPA”). Passed in 1950 in response to the Korean War, the DPA is modelled on the...more

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COVID-19 Update: Pricing During COVID-19 Without Gouging or Fixing

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We recently blogged here about the FTC and states combating scams, price gouging and deceptive ads, and our antitrust group issued an alert on navigating antitrust issues in the wake of COVID-19. Today, we write to provide...more

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COVID19 Update: Anti-Hoarding Enforcement

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Government enforcement agencies are cracking down on COVID-19-related wrongdoing. One focus of alleged wrongdoing is the industrial hoarding of supplies deemed essential in the fight against COVID-19. ...more

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Government Focus and Enforcement of Price Gouging Prohibitions Related to COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to increased scrutiny of price gouging activity by both federal and state enforcers. The Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and many states have been...more

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Executive Order Addresses DOJ’s Fight Against Hoarding Activity

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On the afternoon of March 23, 2020, United States Attorney General William Barr participated in the Coronavirus Task Force press briefing. Attorney General Barr revealed that, on March 23, President Trump issued an executive...more

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Representatives Send Letter to HHS and NIH Seeking Response to Pharmaceutical Costs

In a letter sent earlier this month to Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and Director Francis S. Collins of the National Institutes of Health, fifty members of the U.S. House...more

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