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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Price Transparency Rule went into effect on January 1, 2021, but whether it will succeed in making prices readily comparable for healthcare consumers remains to be seen. Since introducing the rule in late 2019, CMS has battled resistance from industry stakeholders on several fronts, from a barrage of negative comments on the initial design of the rule to a multi-stage legal challenge in federal court. Recent developments, including several reports on hospitals’ compliance efforts, have caused some to speculate about possible increased enforcement activity. However, on May 10, 2021, CMS announced a proposal to walk back its plan to incorporate some of the required information reporting into hospitals’ cost reports. Where does this mixed bag leave hospitals and what will come of the Hospital Price Transparency Rule?
There is a great argument that lawyer advocacy in an arbitration is more essential than at trial in court. Agreeing to arbitrate disputes is a serious decision for any general counsel..
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BASF Corporation, Bayer Cropscience LP, and Syngenta Crop Protection LLC, which are intervenor defendants in a D.C. District Court lawsuit regarding the herbicide dicamba, filed separate answers on Tuesday to the plaintiffs’ amended complaint.
The amended complaint, filed by two agricultural trade associations the American Soybean Association and Plains Cotton Growers Inc. against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on April 27, reiterated the plaintiffs’ claims that the herbicide dicamba is a “critical tool” used by farmers and that the plaintiffs and their members rely on dicamba and crops engineered to withstand the herbicide.
They alleged that the added “significantly more stringent” requirements for applying dicamba products in the EPA’s recent re-registration of the herbicide “impose growing restrictions and disrupt growing seasons which will diminish crop yields, cut productivity, and drive up operational co
Our investigative team bought new phones all over the U.S. & measured when they got spam calls, as efforts to crackdown on billions of robocalls roll out.
The Mississippi Supreme Court’s decision in
Carrick v. Turner ex rel. Walley has the potential to expand arbitration in Mississippi. The case announces a standard for evaluating the validity of arbitration clauses that is more arbitration-friendly than even federal law. In response, Mississippi lawyers should carefully evaluate the arbitrability of their clients’ disputes in view of arbitration’s real costs and benefits, rather than on instinct alone.
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