Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Healthcare

Lori L. Pines, Nadya Salcedo | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Last month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a False Claims Act (“FCA”) suit against Omnicare, Inc. and related entities in relation to Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement of drugs that the relator alleged were...

Healthcare

Patricia A. Dunn, F. Curt Kirschner Jr., Catherine E. Livingston | Jones Day

The Affordable Care Act infuses new complexities into bargaining health insurance benefits. In past years, the challenge for many employers in bargaining has been to control escalating insurance costs and shift a greater share of costs to employees. Those challenges were hard enough. But now,...

Healthcare

Peter J. Marathas, Stacy H. Barrow, Ashlie Lawton | Proskauer

On November 8, 2013, the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (collectively, the "Departments") jointly issued final regulations under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (the "MHPAEA"). In general, the MHPAEA requires that group...