HIT Consultant

JANUARY 5, 2023

This approach originated in 2011, is a smarter way to stop the cycle of crime and an alternative to incarceration. million drug-related arrests, and many offenders suffer from co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. It has surged among law enforcement professionals: Every year, there are approximately 1.5

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Frequently labelled a scholar-activist, she combines academic research and scholarship that bridges law, development, and public health with grassroots work and policy advocacy. Although I’m the only Senior Fellow focusing on global health work at PFC, affiliated researchers also contribute enormously to GHRP. 1991), M.P.H.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

BACKGROUND The Proposed Rule is the latest in a long line of federal legislation and rulemakings governing the conscience rights of healthcare providers and entities. The Church Amendments In the 1970s, the federal government enacted the Church Amendments, 42 U.S.C.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Enrollee Participation in Plan Governance (§ 422.107). CMS believes its proposals would improve Federal and State oversight of certain D-SNPs (and their affiliated MCOs) through greater information-sharing among government regulators. Key provisions of the Proposed Rule are summarized below. Comments are due by March 7, 2022.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). The public health pandemic has converged in 2020 with the negative impacts of financial stress and mental health tolls.

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Hall Render

MARCH 16, 2022

2471 ) that funds the federal government for the remainder of FY 2022. The measure includes funding for health care-related agencies, such as HHS, CMS, HRSA and the FDA, as well as several health care policy riders and provisions that address issues like 340B and telehealth waivers. million increase. billion increase.

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C&M Health Law

JANUARY 25, 2023

trillion spending package, which consists of all 12 fiscal year (FY) 2023 appropriations bills and funds the federal government through September 30, 2023, provides additional assistance to Ukraine, and makes numerous health care policy changes. 117-164 ) (the “Act”)—an approximately $1.7

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Executive Health Resources, Inc. , 2023) (federal government may unilaterally obtain dismissal of FCA claims, and calling the constitutionality of the FCA’s private enforcement mechanism into question) ( here ); Quishenberry v. The case was governed by North Carolina substantive law, and NC rejects strict liability altogether.

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Drug & Device Law

MARCH 30, 2023

About two months ago, we marveled at the notion that challenges to facially neutral state and local government vaccine requirements were still percolating through the legal system. The side it picked was against public health and the authority of FDA, which is charged by Congress with protecting public health.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 12, 2022

223, 231-33 (2011), holding that the Vaccine Act preempted all design defect claims asserted by claimants who rejected Vaccine Act awards and sought to litigate their claims instead. The Supreme Court did its part in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC , 562 U.S. Now comes DeCostanzo v. at 226 (footnote and quotation marks omitted). 300aa-11(a)(2)(a).

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Drug & Device Law

OCTOBER 7, 2022

While most contraceptives are short-acting, in part to allow for the possibility of conception when desired, there is clearly a role from public health perspective—among other perspectives—for long-acting and permanent contraception. (Our posts go back for more than six years.) The facts of Garcia are sparse. 2022 WL 4536240, *1.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 10, 2022

Nor can they include the logo of a federal or state government agency, so as not to suggest affiliation with any such agency. Finally, they cannot use the word “recall” except “when referring to a product that has been recalled by a government agency or through an agreement between a manufacturer and government agency.”

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