On March 18, 2014, Representative Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) sent a letter to US Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius “express[ing] concern about the backlog of appeals pending with the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (“OMHA”)”
Office of the Inspector General of HHS (“OIG”) released its Compendium of Priority Recommendations, which includes 25 recommendations that OIG has made in previous audit and evaluation reports but have not yet implemented. The recommendations are focused both on monetary
On March 13, 2014, CMS issued the FY 2013 Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office (“the Office”) Report to Congress. In the Report, CMS provided a review of FY 2013 demonstrations, improvements and other initiatives to improve the experience of Medicare-Medicaid beneficiaries. Additionally,
With many Australian organisations still coming to grips with recent changes to their privacy laws, legislation to mandate notification of privacy breaches is back on the agenda. Amongst other aspects, the recent changes introduced significant fines and increased the scope
In a move that has been threatened for some time, legislation has been introduced into the Australian parliament to create a further exception to the patentee’s rights. This will allow for the manufacture of patent protected medicines in Australia where
Office of the Inspector General of HHS (“OIG”) released its Compendium of Priority Recommendations, which includes 25 recommendations that OIG has made in previous audit and evaluation reports but have not yet implemented. The recommendations are focused both on monetary
Nutrition labels have been required on packaged food for two decades, in order to help consumers better understand the nutritional values of foods and therefore make more healthy choices for themselves and their families.
On February 27, 2014, the FDA
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) recently filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the FDA’s regulation of food additives and its Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) program. According to the suit, the FDA has
Heralded as the most sweeping change to food safety laws in half a century, the FDA has struggled to meet the Food Safety Modernization Act’s (FSMA) rulemaking timeline. On February 20, 2014, the FDA obtained an agreement to extend several
As indicated in the previous article, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reached a settlement agreement with the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Center for Environmental Health that extended and staggered the deadlines for publishing final rules implementing