08.01.24
A California federal court recently granted a defendant’s motion to dismiss the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) claim brought by a plaintiff alleging that she received a trio of unwanted phone calls, finding that she failed to state a claim under the statute.
A Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) plaintiff who was neither a subscriber of the telephone number nor a customary user of the number failed to state a claim under the statute, a New York federal court has ruled.
On July 22 and July 23, HHS OIG published two advisory opinions for proposals by pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide fertility support to patients receiving their gene therapies.
During a July 23 hearing with executives of the nation’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability made clear their concern over the role of PBMs in drug pricing and the future of independent retail pharmacies.
On July 8, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released two Notices of Funding Opportunities directing $27.5 million to initiatives addressing behavioral health care for women.
07.31.24
The purpose of this quarterly tracker is to identify key federal and state health AI policy activity. Below reflects federal legislative and regulatory activity to date related to AI, and state legislative activity introduced between January 1 and March 31st, 2024.
Our analysis found that hospitals disproportionately serving historically marginalized populations (HMPs) faced financial payment disparities not experienced by other hospitals, a result of both greater reliance on Medicaid reimbursements and less favorable commercial payment rates.
07.30.24
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published guidance on the use of artificial intelligence-based tools in patent practice to inform practitioners of important issues when using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in matters before the Patent Office.
During the first half of 2024, nineteen states passed laws entering them into an array of different interstate compacts.
In the second federal district court ruling to date on the Federal Trade Commission’s rule banning nearly all noncompete agreements, a Pennsylvania court upheld the FTC rule as a legitimate exercise of the FTC’s substantive rulemaking authority under the FTC Act.
