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04.23.15

Marketplace Premium Assistance: Creating Alignment Between Medicaid and Qualified Health Plans

Arkansas broke new ground with its Marketplace Premium Assistance Medicaid expansion (widely referred to as the “Private Option”) last year, spurring additional states to consider the model.


04.22.15

Red Light! Cab Companies Claim Uber Falsely Claims to Be Safer Service

What’s safer—riding in a cab or riding in an Uber car?


04.21.15

It’s Stifling in Here!

On April 1, 2015, the SEC announced its first-ever enforcement action against a company for using restrictive language in confidentiality agreements with witnesses interviewed during internal investigations that has the potential to improperly stifle whistleblowers and impede the whistleblowing ...


04.21.15

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights, Apr 21, 2015

This week, CMS proposes continued 90% funding for Medicaid eligibility and enrollment system development.


04.20.15

To Accommodate or Not to Accommodate? U.S. Supreme Court Weighs in on Pregnant Employees

The U.S. Supreme Court decided the first of two major employment law cases this term when a 6-3 majority of the Court held that the McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green, 411 U.S. 792 (1973), burden-shifting framework applies to a pregnant employee seeking to demonstrate disparate treatment through ...


04.15.15

User Choice to Send Solicitations Refutes ATDS Allegations

Following a growing precedent in the California federal district courts, a judge recently concluded that a defendant in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act case did not impermissibly use an automated telephone dialing system (ATDS) because human intervention was involved.


04.14.15

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights, Apr 14, 2015

The uninsurance rate for U.S. adults dips to 11.9%, national health expenditures come in below estimates and Medicaid expansion appears imminent in Montana.


04.10.15

Medicaid Expansion Leads to Economic Benefits While Improving Access to Coverage

The Affordable Care Act provides states with a powerful incentive to expand Medicaid to adults with incomes up to 133% of the Federal Poverty Level, paying for 100% of Medicaid coverage through 2016, and eventually phasing to 90% in 2020 and beyond.


04.09.15

Top 5 Issues in Consumer P2P Law and Regulation

Though now several years old, peer-to-peer lending (P2P) has rapidly come of age in the past two years as loan volumes and investment accounts have spiked significantly.


04.07.15

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights, Apr 7, 2015

Early data emerges on the impact of Medicaid expansion on states’ budgets and enrollees’ healthy behaviors.