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CMS Finalizes New Mandatory Drug Payment Model To Deliver Lower Drug Prices For Beneficiaries In Original Medicare Part B

October 9, 2026

CMS announced the following on September 30, 2026: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is finalizing a groundbreaking drug payment model to address the increasingly expensive cost of drugs in Original Medicare Part B while preserving or enhancing Medicare beneficiaries’ quality [...]

Maryland Settles EpiPen Claims Against Mylan, Inc.

June 29, 2026

On May 4, 2026, Maryland’s Attorney General announced that the Antitrust Division reached a settlement with Mylan Inc. (Mylan), the company that sells the EpiPen®, resolving concerns about anticompetitive conduct involving the cost, marketing, and availability of EpiPen products. The Ep[...]

Federal Appellate Court Sides With Pharmaceutical Company In Finding No Antitrust Violations In Delay Of Generic Drug Deals

July 22, 2024

Forest Laboratories, the brand manufacturer of the high-blood-pressure drug Bystolic, settled patent-infringement litigation that it brought against seven manufacturers of generic versions of Bystolic. Contemporaneously with eachsettlement, pursuant to which the generic manufacturers agreed to forgo[...]

Federal Lawsuit Alleges Teva Pharmaceuticals Conspired To Block Access To Generic Drugs

February 9, 2023

Teva Pharmaceuticals Blocked Access To Generic Drugs: A federal lawsuit filed on December 2, 2022 in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas alleges, in part, as follows: “This case seeks to hold Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries, Ltd., Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., Teva Pa[...]

Ohio Governor Reports 60% Of Nursing Home Workers Have Refused COVID-19 Vaccine

January 3, 2021

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine reported on December 30, 2020 that 60% of Ohio’s nursing home workers have refused the COVID-19 vaccine. Governor DeWine stated during the December 30, 2020 press conference, “Our bigger concern is the amount of staff who are not taking it. I don’t have data i[...]

The Meteoric Rise In Prescription Drug Prices

March 28, 2016

The results of a recent study undertaken by Express Scripts, a provider of integrated pharmacy benefit management services in the United States, found that average brand-name prescription drug prices in the United States has risen by 98.2% since 2011. In 2015, brand-name prescription drug prices[...]

Fungal Meningitis Outbreak

October 7, 2012

On October 6, 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that seven people have died as a result of a fungal meningitis outbreak, and 64 people in 9 U.S. states have been diagnosed with fungal meningitis that are linked to the use of contaminated steroid injections (epidu[...]

Today’s 300th Consecutive Daily Blog Posting For medicalmalpracticelawyers.com

December 29, 2011

Today, medicalmalpracticelawyers.com is proud to celebrate its 300th consecutive daily blog posting. Over the course of 299 postings, we have explored numerous medical malpractice topics, including states’ medical malpractice laws, states’ statistics regarding medical malpractice cla[...]

Drug Shortages Are Getting Even Worse!

December 17, 2011

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on December 15, 2011 in which it stated that the U.S. Congress should consider requiring drug manufacturers to report to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) any changes that could affect their supply of their drugs. The GAO f[...]

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