Affordable Care Act (ACA)

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Catherine E. Livingston | Jones Day

Editor: Please describe your background as Health Care Counsel in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel where you had a key role in developing and advising on the Affordable Care Act. Livingston: I spent ten years as an executive in the IRS Office of Chief Counsel, the last three of which were...

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Kenneth A. Raskin, Laura R. Westfall | King & Spalding LLP

Although implementation of the first wave of reforms enacted under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (“ACA”) has been underway for several years, employers should prepare now for the second wave of ACA’s reforms – including the “employer mandate...

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Patrick J. O'Toole, Jr., Elizabeth S. Weiswasser, Matthew L. Knowles, Bryana T. McGillycuddy | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Introduction A controversy over what the Supreme Court has now defined as “reverse payment settlement agreements” has been brewing for years. A reverse payment settlement agreement is a settlement agreement resolving patent infringement litigation brought by an innovator against a...