On October 18, Humana <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25244688-humana_hhs_stars_complaint">filed</a> suit against CMS challenging the 2025 MA Star Ratings assigned to its plans.

Last week, Texas AG Ken Paxton (R) sued the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), alleging that the new HHS final rule amending HIPAA regulations to strengthen protections for reproductive health information is unlawful and should be vacated (e.g., not go into effect).

On August 15, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for states participating in the Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) Access Model.

On August 15, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the “maximum fair prices (MFPs)” for the first 10 drugs subject to the Medicare drug negotiation program. 

Manatt Health Partners Alex Dworkowitz and Randi Seigel, and Privacy and Data Security Partner Brandon Reilly co-authored an article for COSMOS on the new health care consumer data regulations health care providers and plans must comply with as states continue to pass their own consumer privacy and ...

Manatt Health Partner Alex Dworkowitz wrote an article for Health Affairs on the difficulties health care providers are facing regarding the electronic health information they can and must make available through online patient portals. In the article, Dworkowitz explained that hospitals and ...

When Pennsylvania Congressman Tim Murphy officially resigned from the House in October, media attention focused on the health policy issue at the center of Murphy’s resignation: abortion. Congressman Murphy officially opposed abortion rights, but through text messages, the married father ...

Managed care is the dominant delivery model in state Medicaid programs, and is rapidly growing with the Affordable Care Act bringing over 8 million new beneficiaries into Medicaid in 2014. Today, 39 states (including the District of Columbia)1 enroll beneficiaries in comprehensive managed care ...

Ian Spatz and Alex Dworkowitz were quoted in InsuranceNewsNet on Manatt’s August 23 webinar, “Preparing for Change: A Guide to the Inflation Reduction Act Drug Pricing Provisions.”  

Manatt Health Partner Alex Dworkowitz was quoted in Modern Healthcare on the future of Medicare Advantage payment plans and what the projections for the coming year mean. According to the article, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimated a considerable revenue increase for 2023, a ...

Alex Dworkowitz spoke with HealthPayerIntelligence on the CMS announcement that its interoperability guidance would not be enforcing the payer-to-payer data exchange rule on January 1, 2022.

Manatt Health partner Alexander Dworkowitz spoke with Bloomberg Law on the additional changes HHS is expected to issue following changes Congress made through the CARES Act to align the recently passed 42 CFR Part 2 law with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. In the article, ...

Manatt Health Partner Alex Dworkowitz will speak at an upcoming American Health Law Association (AHLA) Webinar titled, “Legal and Policy Challenges for the Coverage of and Payment for Cell and Gene Therapies,” on January 24, 2024 from 2-3 pm EST.

Manatt Health Partner Alexander Dworkowitz will present at the HCCA Orange County Regional Conference on the latest legal developments on the sharing of health information in California, including recent HIPAA guidance and developments under AB 133.

Manatt Privacy and Data Security Partner Brandon Reilly and Manatt Health Partners Randi Seigel and Alex Dworkowitz will speak in a webinar titled “When Health Care and Consumer Data Rules Collide: Ensuring Compliance with the Latest Generation of Data Privacy Laws,” hosted by the Association of ...

Manatt Health Partner Alex Dworkowitz will speak at a virtual event titled “Leveraging Data and Technology to Support Health Equity,” hosted by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI), on February 16.