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06.30.16

LA Doubles Down on Sick Leave, Minimum Wage Increase

Already facing new California employment-related requirements—including the adoption of mandatory sick leave and an uptick in the minimum wage—Los Angeles employers now have an added wrinkle to deal with.


06.30.16

Manatt on Medicaid: Monthly Expansion Recap, June 2016

The Department for Medicaid Services released a draft 1115 demonstration application to transform the coverage options available under Medicaid expansion (named "Kentucky HEALTH"), as well as introduce delivery system reforms targeting substance use disorder (SUD), chronic disease ...


06.30.16

Transparency and Decision Support for Medicaid Managed Care Consumers

Today three-quarters of the over 60 million Americans enrolled in Medicaid will access some or all of their coverage through managed care.


06.30.16

FTC Shuts Down Scam Touting Aid for Disabled Individuals

The agency took action against Adli Dasuqui and a pair of his companies, American Handicapped Inc. and Disadvantaged Workers Inc., alleging the defendants paid telemarketers to cold-call consumers to sell light bulbs and trash bags.


06.30.16

Agreement Reached on Bipartisan Federal GMO Food Labeling Bill

Senate Agriculture Committee leaders reached agreement June 23, 2016, on a bill that would require food containing genetic material modified by recombinant DNA techniques to be labeled or to provide a link to a disclosure indicating that the food is "bioengineered."


06.29.16

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights, June 29, 2016

Kentucky proposes premium assistance and high deductible health plans to cover expansion enrollees under an 1115 waiver; New York Legislature expresses unanimous support for a reimbursement increase for safety-net hospitals; and a new literature review documents Medicaid expansion's positive ...


06.27.16

SCOTUS Declines Hearing Madden: Are Industry Repercussions Limited?

In a disappointing move, the Supreme Court today denied the petition by Midland Funding to hear the case Madden v. Midland Funding.


06.24.16

Private Organizations Not up to Ethical Challenges of Olympics

At least three private organizations have been dealing with the state-sponsored doping scandal swirling around the Rio Olympics: the World Anti-Doping Agency, the International Association of Athletic Federations, and the International Olympic Committee.


06.23.16

Real-Time Data Analytics in Government Investigations and Reducing Exposure

It is not every day that the words “innovative” and “nimble” are used when referring to an agency of the federal government bureaucracy. Yet, after studying the playbook of sophisticated corporations, the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), run ...


06.23.16

CFPB Releases Proposed Regulation of Payday Loans

In a long anticipated move, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a rule to regulate so-called "debt traps" by requiring lenders to take additional steps to ensure consumers have the ability to repay certain types of small loans and placing limits on reborrowing or ...