Food/Drugs/Healthcare/Life Sciences

In-Patient Hospitalization And "Minimum Value" Under The ACA

HIGHLIGHTS: The IRS, DOL and HHS issue guidance on calculating minimum value under the Affordable Care Act for plans not offering substantial coverage for in-patient hospitalization or physician services. Employers need to review plans for hospitalization and related physician care services and reassess whether their plans provide “minimum value.” The Patient Protection and Affordable Care… Read More

Quantum Foods: Committee Files Preference Actions

Introduction On October 28, 2014, The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Q v. AB Foods LLC (the “Committee”), the committee in the Quantum Foods, LLC bankruptcy, began filing complaints to recover what it contends are avoidable preferences.  The Committee filed the preference actions in the Delaware Bankruptcy Court and argue that the transfers, or… Read More

Digital Health Investment In September Tops $700 Million

Digital health companies raised just over $730 million through venture, private equity and angel investments in September, according to our latest analysis, bringing the total for the third quarter to approximately $1.3 billion. The largest financing in the third quarter accounted for more than half of the aggregate investment in September. Privia, a practice management… Read More

Connecticut Supreme Court Recognizes Individual’s Right For State Tort Action Using HIPAA As Standard Of Care

The Connecticut Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case of Byrne v. Avery Center for Obstetrics and Gynecology, P.C., — A.3d —-, 2014 WL 5507439 (2014) that [a]ssuming, without deciding, that Connecticut’s common law recognizes a negligence cause of action arising from health care providers’ breaches of patient privacy in the context of… Read More

Federal Circuit Looks For Inventive Concept In Sequenom Patent

On November 7, 2014, the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments in Aria Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc., where Sequenom is appealing the district court’s summary judgment of invalidity under 35 USC § 101. The active questioning by the judges suggests that they are wrestling with how to apply the Supreme Court’s decision in Mayo to… Read More

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