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Oklahoma Senator Proposes Bill To Make Providing Transgender Healthcare A Crime — Even For Some Adults

The Crime Report

The bill, if enacted, would make providing or referring for this kind of care to anyone under 26 years old a felony offense with a statute of limitations of 40 years. .

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Second Circuit Agrees that Copay Assistance Programs May Violate the Anti-Kickback Statute

FDA Law Blog

Kirschenbaum — In a recent decision, the Second Circuit upheld the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG)’s position that Pfizer’s proposed copay assistance program for its high-cost heart treatment would violate the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). The Second Circuit’s Interpretation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. Pfizer, Inc.

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Supreme Court to Clarify What Constitutes Identity Theft

Constitutional Law Reporter

He was subsequently charged with healthcare fraud, as well as aggravated identity theft under 18 U.S.C. A jury found Dubin guilty of one charge of healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft. The aggravated identity theft charge added a mandatory two-year prison sentence on top of the healthcare fraud charges.

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Could the Road to an AKS Violation Be Paved with Good Intentions? Pfizer Asks SCOTUS

FDA Law Blog

Gaulkin — We previously blogged about Pfizer’s copay assistance lawsuit, which sought to challenge HHS’s interpretation of the Federal health care program anti-kickback statute (AKS) and position that the company’s proposed copay assistance program would violate the AKS. By Sophia R. Background.

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Supreme Court will decide appeal timeliness issue

At the Lectern

” In dismissing the fair housing claims, the superior court had relied on the opinion in AIDS Healthcare Foundation v. ” The dissenter said she was “confounded by [the superior court’s] failure to try more [felony trials for in-custody defendants] after fully reopening in June 2021.”

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Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on gender-affirming care for minors

JURIST

The court did not find either situation to be the case because “[t]he statute does not prevent medical providers from treating children with gender dysphoria with [alternative treatments], nor does it prohibit them from providing those medical procedures to adults.”

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Supreme Court grants review in three criminal cases

At the Lectern

Ruling on a habeas corpus petition, the superior court struck firearms sentence enhancements based on the retroactive application of new legislation, but it declined to revisit the defendant’s convictions based on other new statutes, including Assembly Bill No. Prime Healthcare Management, Inc. Hout and People v. In People v.

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