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3/12/2025 8:00:28 PM HHS-OGC Closes ROs and Terminates Additional Attorneys By Scot T. Hasselman Following on my post yesterday regarding early retirements and separations at HHS, we understand today that over 120 HHS-OGC lawyers were...
3/11/2025 5:48:19 PM Expect HHS Retirements To Be Material By Scot T. Hasselman Many employees at HHS and its 13 operating and staff divisions (e.g., FDA, HHS-OIG, CDC, NIH) are eligible for either early retirement...
2/11/2025 7:55:36 PM ACR urges Congress to dramatically increase number of federally supported medical residency positions By Tom Greeson At a time of acute physician shortage, particularly a shortage of radiologists, the American College of Radiology (ACR) is requesting...
1/26/2025 11:26:00 PM UK proposes a targeted ban on ransomware payments and mandatory notification of such attacks for all By Aselle Ibraimova On 14 January 2025, the UK government announced a public consultation on legislative proposals on ransomware. The consultation closes on...
1/22/2025 1:33:22 PM FDA's AI Lifecycle & Scientific Information Guidance Documents By Sung Park Cori Goldberg Gerard Stegmaier FDA is pushing out new guidance documents at a pace rarely seen, likely caused by the upcoming change in administration. Today, we are...
1/13/2025 1:56:29 PM US Supreme Court accepts appeal that will determine the fate of zero dollar "out-of-pocket" preventive health care services By Tom Greeson This past Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court accepted an appeal from U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that can be expected to determine the...
1/6/2025 7:13:32 PM It's a new year and a new colorectal cancer screening exam is now reimbursable by Medicare By Tom Greeson In relatively unknown provisions of the 2025 final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment...
12/16/2024 2:37:39 PM Renewed effort in Congress to gain Medicare reimbursement for RA services By Tom Greeson A press release from the offices of U.S. Senators John Boozman (R-AR) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) announced that they will introduce The...
11/20/2024 4:07:44 PM What will be the fate of issues of importance to radiologists in President Trump's second administration? By Tom Greeson In an excellent white paper, leaders of the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) explore the potential policies and...
11/13/2024 9:30:38 PM Top U.S. antitrust enforcer decries integrated health care platforms; likens industry to Big Tech By Courtney Averbach Christopher Brennan Michelle Mantine Key takeaways Outgoing head of DOJ Antitrust Division Jonathan Kanter asserted health care consolidation has failed to deliver on...
11/11/2024 2:40:11 PM What do you need to know about the new UK "failure to prevent fraud" offence? By Rosanne Kay Patrick Rappo The UK government has introduced a new corporate offence, the "Failure to Prevent Fraud" (FTPF), which will come into force on 1...
10/30/2024 6:38:22 PM Nov. 20-21 FDA Advisory Committee Meeting on Regulating Generative AI-Enabled Medical Devices By Heather Ritch Rocks Developing a GenAI-enabled medical device? Implementing GenAI in a healthcare application? Curious to hear how FDA is thinking about...
10/23/2024 12:12:59 PM Fighting for its rulemaking rights: The FTC heads to the 5th Circuit on its proposed ban of noncompetes. By Michelle Mantine On Friday, October 18, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave notice that it would appeal Texas federal judge Ada Brown's decision...
8/5/2024 10:38:16 PM Medicare percentage of costs reimbursement approved (temporarily) for AI software triage tool used in radiology By Tom Greeson Sung Park One much discussed topic as artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly introduced onto diagnostic radiologists' workstations has been...
7/31/2024 2:59:42 PM FTC study of PBMs paves the way for antitrust lawsuits, starting in Vermont and Louisiana By Michelle Mantine Leah Hungerman Last week, Vermont’s Attorney General filed suit against two pharmacy benefit managers (“PBMs”), alleging that the PBMs “are driving up...
7/29/2024 5:18:04 PM Oregon legislative efforts to curb private equity investment in health care may unintentionally prohibit more than that By James Hennessy The Oregon Legislative Assembly introduced House Bill 4130 earlier this year and became the latest in a growing number of states seeking...