Donald Trump will be the 47th President of the U.S. Not since 1892 has a President been elected to two non-consecutive terms, and his victory has helped Republicans pick up several critical seats in Congress. Senate...more
11/8/2024
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Readers of our blog know that Haider, Alex and I have a longstanding interest in the intersection of health care law and immigration law. That’s important for our blog, especially because of the needs of the immigrant...more
3/16/2021
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Right before the new year, we told you about some of the Medicaid-related provisions of the COVID relief package that was recently signed into law by President Trump. One provision of that law that we thought merited a...more
Here at the Medicaid and the Law Blog, we spent part of our holiday break reading through the most recent COVID-19 relief package that was finally signed into law by President Trump amid a not-insignificant amount of drama. ...more
In a historic presidential election that began during the COVID-19 pandemic and ended with record voter turnout and mail-in ballots, former Vice President Joseph Biden of Delaware was declared the 46th president of the United...more
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began to seriously affect the United States in March, Congress has passed four major pieces of legislation to address the public health crisis. CMS has also jumped into action and has issued a...more
We haven’t posted on the blog in a while due to the rapid increase in our workload due to the coronavirus pandemic. We’re preparing a longer post that will go through everything that’s happened in Medicaid legislatively and...more
On April 24, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (HCEA), which appropriated an additional $75 billion to the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund...more
The global pandemic caused by the novel corona virus has certainly shaken up our normal way of life and will do so for the foreseeable future. Times like this reinforce the importance of public health insurance programs like...more
3/19/2020
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I. Introduction -
In February of 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) issued a Proposed Rule that, if adopted, would upend the current prescription drug...more
In February of 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) issued a Proposed Rule that, if adopted, would upend the current prescription drug rebate system. According to HHS-OIG,...more
On October 12, 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) entitled “Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States.” The much-anticipated EO directs the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and...more