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Louisiana AG challenges Biden administration vaccine mandate for healthcare workers

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Attorney General Jeff Landry of Louisiana and eleven other states filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), questioning their authority to issue a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. CMS acknowledged that this mandate requiring vaccination is the first of its type.

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Biden administration says healthcare providers must allow abortion when mother’s life at risk

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Prior to the latest guidelines, Becerra and DHHS launched a website showing where abortions are legal and illegal and in what ways they are legal and illegal, met with healthcare providers to discuss the EMTALA, and allotted further funding to family planning programs. Becerra warned providers that.

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US court bans Arizona from excluding gender-affirming care from state health insurance plans

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Judge Marquez evaluated the consent decree and affirmed that it met the appropriate legal standards for class action settlements. ” The case was originally filed in 2019 by Russell Toomey, an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona.

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ACLU sues Idaho over legal opinion expanding abortion restrictions

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Wednesday announced it had filed a lawsuit to block the application of a legal opinion in connection with Idaho’s abortion laws. The statute in its plain language states, criminal penalties will apply to “every person who performs or attempts to perform an abortion.”

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Biden signs executive order authorizing federal funds for abortion patients traveling across state lines

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US President Joe Biden Wednesday signed an executive order protecting the right of American women to travel across state lines for abortion care and directing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to protect abortion and reproductive healthcare access. Wade and led by Vice President Kamala Harris.

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Second Circuit Agrees that Copay Assistance Programs May Violate the Anti-Kickback Statute

FDA Law Blog

Kirschenbaum — In a recent decision, the Second Circuit upheld the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG)’s position that Pfizer’s proposed copay assistance program for its high-cost heart treatment would violate the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). The Second Circuit’s Interpretation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. Pfizer, Inc.

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Funding for Native healthcare programs, and the Armed Career Criminal Act returns

SCOTUSBlog

The legal dispute concerns the extra contract support costs that the tribes use to administer health programs. The court considered the statutes ambiguous, which meant that under normal principles of Indian Law, they must be construed in favor of the tribe. Is the tribe entitled to only enough to cover the IHS-funded activities?