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Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector. ...more
With the midterm elections now behind us, the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate return to Washington this week to kick off the lame duck session, entering the twilight of the legislative year with a...more
In Washington: The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released drafts of all 12 annual spending bills for 2021, setting up negotiations for a deal ahead of the Dec. 11 deadline to keep the government-funded. Bogged...more
Appropriations committee reviews health care workforce bill - The House Appropriations committee reviewed H.607 on Tuesday, a bill aimed at increasing the health care workforce in Vermont. The bill requires the Vermont...more
In Maine Community, the US Supreme Court found on April 27, 2020, that the Risk Corridors program created by Congress was a “money-mandating obligation” requiring the federal government to make payments under Section 1342 of...more
The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that the federal government must pay over $12 billion to certain health insurers that participated in health insurance exchanges in the first three years that those exchanges were in...more
Despite Congress’ efforts to use riders to neutralize a provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Act), the Federal government (Government) owes certain insurers $12 billion....more
On April 27, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the federal government is on the hook for $12 billion it failed to pay insurers under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) risk-mitigation program known as the Risk Corridors Program. ...more
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Maine Community Health Options v. United States, is a major decision affecting healthcare and resolving a significant Obamacare dispute. The Affordable Care Act famously established online...more
The Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling on April 27, 2020, directed at a more than $12 billion challenge related to the temporary risk corridors program established by the Affordable Care Act (the “ACA”). Challenges...more
On April 27, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Moda Health Plan, Inc. v. United States, holding that the Affordable Care Act requires the federal government to compensate insurers for significant losses their health plans...more
On April 27, 2020, the US Supreme Court ruled by an 8-1 decision that the federal government must pay billions of dollars to health insurers who sold consumer policies on exchanges under the Affordable Care Act’s (“ACA”)...more
In a major win for health insurers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in an 8-1 decision that the federal government owes roughly $12.3 billion to health insurers who claimed losses under the risk corridor program of the...more
In the wee hours of December 2019, Congress revived the PCORI fee and filing obligations of employer sponsors of self-insured group health plans. In accordance with the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, employer...more
Autonomous cars, sports betting, and CBD products have burst onto the scene, setting the stage for major developments in how companies do business and how regulators monitor new innovations....more
On December 20, President Trump signed the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (the “Act”), a year-end spending bill that includes key provisions that will affect employer-sponsored benefit plans. This legal alert...more
Last Friday, President Trump signed into law two bipartisan legislative packages that included all twelve Fiscal Year 2020 funding bills. Comprehensive surprise billing and drug pricing legislation were not included in the...more
In the absence of an enacted budget for fiscal year 2019-2020, Legislators passed a number of bills appropriating money for various purposes this week. They also acted on bills on other topics....more
Legislators in both chambers considered many bills this week as House budget writers negotiated behind closed doors. Budget Bill - After recently concluding Appropriations subcommittee meetings, House members are...more
In 2017, Massachusetts enacted a supplemental appropriations bill providing for the creation of an employer healthcare coverage form that Massachusetts employers with six or more employees would be required to submit...more
Welcome back. This is the first of three weeks when the Senate is in session while the House is out on its five-week summer recess. It is highly unusual for one chamber to be here with the other is on recess for that long....more
Foley & Lardner LLP’s (“Foley”) Bipartisan Public Policy Team is pleased to share our “Public Policy Weekly* Health Care Newsletter” in which we compile the latest Health Care policy news and legislation. *Please note that we...more
Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Senate Floor. The Senate is schedule to finish its work this evening on the minibus appropriations bill, a three-bill spending package that includes Energy and Water...more
Resolving a split in the lower courts, the Federal Circuit issued two decisions on June 14, 2018, wherein the Court held that health insurers Moda Health Plan Inc. (Moda Health) and Land of Lincoln Mutual Health (Land of...more
In a decision last week that could affect $12 billion that insurers assert is owed by the federal government, the Federal Circuit decided that HHS was not required to pay amounts required by statute because Congress had...more