As discussed in this prior blog post, beginning in 2018 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reduced reimbursement rates for Medicare prescription drugs to 340B hospitals by nearly thirty percent. The American Hospital Association (AHA) filed suit, and on June 15, 2022 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the cuts imposed
As discussed in this week’s Client Alert by our partner Alan S. Pralgever, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy recently signed into law a bill (A-4768) that sets April 10, 2023, as the new effective date for long awaited amendments to the NJ WARN Act. These changes have far-reaching implications for New Jersey employers, including
The Supreme Court of South Carolina has ruled that the state constitutional protection against “unreasonable invasions of privacy” includes a woman’s right to choose an abortion. In Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. State of Carolina, the Court found that the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection Act violated Article I, Section 10, of the South Carolina
As reported this past week by GovInfoSecurity, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, signed into law in late December 2022, included a key provision to help ensure the cybersecurity of medical devices by their manufacturers. GovInfoSecurity interviewed Dr. Suzanne Schwartz, director of the FDA’s Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation, Center for Devices
On January 5, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an extremely broad Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which, if adopted in its current form, would prohibit nearly all private employers from entering into or enforcing non-compete agreements with their employees. In this Client Alert, our partner Thomas C. Senter outlines key provisions of the proposed
The COVID-19 pandemic created a paradigm shift in the world of telehealth and telemedicine by presenting challenges and opportunities to expand the delivery methods used to access healthcare. With the continued advancement of the technology behind it, telemedicine offered opportunities for healthcare practitioners to practice medicine across state lines when the patient was in a
New Jersey enacted the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act (MAID) in 2019, becoming one of eleven jurisdictions including the District of Columbia to recognize a patient’s ability to obtain physician assistance for the purpose of obtaining medication to end a life burdened by terminal illness.
Massachusetts is not one of the
It all starts with the contract, but let’s face it … most consider provider-payer contracts obsolete on the day they are inked. A managed care contract is the quintessential tornado in a bottle, attempting to fix the terms and conditions that will apply for the course of the contract while the healthcare finance and delivery
The United States District Court’s 2021 ruling in Milton S. Hershey Medical Center v. Becerra is one example of a successful legal challenge to federal agency action, but a number of more recent cases reaffirm that lower federal courts may not hesitate to overturn agency action deemed outside the bounds of the agency’s legislative authority.
In an article recently published in the MDAdvisor Journal, Greenbaum attorney John Zen Jackson analyzes the number of times the option to self-administer medication under the Medical Aid in Dying Act (MAID) has been used in New Jersey on an annual basis. Resources in this article include statistics from five demographic categories, a comparison of