Below is an edited excerpt from a recent Manatt Health paper. Click here to read the full text. Despite the demonstrated effectiveness of prenatal vaccines, uptake remains low. This puts mothers i and babies at risk. Vaccines administered prenatally (i.e., during a pregnancy) ...

Effective October 2023, federal law requires Medicaid programs to cover all recommended adult vaccines administered by physicians with no cost sharing for all eligibility groups.

Despite the demonstrated effectiveness of prenatal vaccines, uptake remains low. This puts mothersi and babies at risk. Vaccines administered prenatally (i.e., during a pregnancy) provide protective antibodies to pregnant women and their unborn children.

On September 17, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which administers the prescription drug discount program established under Section 340B of the federal Public Health Service Act, sent a letter to pharmaceutical manufacturer Johnson & Johnson (J&J), threatening to ...

On August 23, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) issued a written notice to disproportionate share hospitals that participate in the prescription drug discount program established under section 340B of the federal Public Health Service Act, advising them that, beginning on October 15, it would no ...

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 Julian Polaris and Helen Pfister and Associate Matthew Itzkowitz co-authored an article with Merck’s Alexandra Bhatti, Amanda L. Eiden and Anthony DiFranzo for Health Affairs on how policymakers can increase access to routine vaccinations for adults enrolled in ...

Mobile apps, e-mail and text messaging present new opportunities for health plans and healthcare providers to engage their members and patients. However, organizations must keep in mind that sending electronic protected health information (ePHI) through these channels poses HIPAA ...

Editor's Note: In a recent two-part webinar for Bloomberg BNA, Manatt examined the most significant legal developments that life sciences companies need to watch in the year ahead. In an ongoing series of articles, we'll be sharing some of the key issues explored during the ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has established exemptions from certain requirements of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) for health care messages regulated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Although this exemption initially appears to ...

Eighty-seven Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the nation’s leading lawyers each year based on a nationwide peer-review survey. 

Manatt has once again been ranked among the nation’s leading law firms in Chambers’ 2024 USA Guide across 18 categories with 42 individual rankings.

A Manatt pro bono team successfully secured asylum for a decorated Afghan ally and his family members who were evacuated from the country after the Taliban took over in 2021. Referred to as SA, the client served with the National Mine Reduction Group (NMRG) in Afghanistan beginning in 2013. ...

Eighty-two Manatt attorneys have been named to the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America, which recognizes the nation’s leading lawyers each year based on a nationwide peer-review survey. 

Manatt’s healthcare team makes sense of today’s tidal wave of change—and reveals the five megatrends pharma leaders need to watch and respond to—in a webinar: “The Five Megatrends Shaping Pharma’s Next Decade.”

On January 17, 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued its long-awaited Omnibus Rule, changing a broad range of HIPAA privacy, security and breach notification requirements.