On March 21, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that Medicare-enrolled seniors have saved over $6.1 billion on prescription drugs since 2010...

On March 27, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-awaited opinion in Comcast Corp. v. Behrend , addressing the quality of proof needed to satisfy Federal Rule of...

On March 18, Senators Thune (D-S.D.) and Klobuchar (D.Minn.) re-introduced a bipartisan bill that would expand the use of home health care telehealth technology by...

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) has issued updated guidelines to evaluate state false claims act legislation based on...

This week, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee criticized the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for failing to finalize regulations and...

On March 20, 2013, Richard Gilfillan, MD, Director of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation ("CMMI") appeared before the Senate Committee on Finance...

The UK Competition Commission (the "CC") has recently published an annotated issues statement as part of its market investigation into the UK private healthcare...

FDA says sequester means fewer inspections and increased risk to consumers FDA releases international food safety capacity-building plan...

Although efforts to prepare for Sunshine Act reporting often focus on payments and transfers of value, physician ownership and investment interests and the interests of...

In a unanimous decision issued on March 19, 2013, the Supreme Court held that class action plaintiffs cannot avoid federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness...

Who Owns Global IP: Securing IP Ownership Rights Around the World Your client generates intellectual property domestically and perhaps in different parts of the...

In a landmark ruling on March 19th, the Supreme Court held in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., No. 11-697, that the "first sale" doctrine –...

California landlords and property owners have an important date to highlight on their calendars: July 1. That's when new disclosure requirements for ADA surveys and...

In 1988, Hill Dermaceuticals filed a successful new drug application with the FDA for a corticosteroid.  The approval was for three separate products – body...

While the Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA") individual mandate in a decision this past June, various groups have...