• Minnesota man gets prison time for trying to scam one of the state’s largest payers out of medical assistance payments.
• Reform? What reform? Health insurance premiums via employer-sponsored plans to increase next year.
• Andrew Cuomo, NYs’ AG, has completed reform on out-of-network payments to health plans.
• The FDA has approved the sale of Novartis’ Ilaris, the first drug the company has developed as part of its new push to focus on the genetic triggers that cause disease.
• Experts to Congress: Improve the FDA’s medical device approval process.
  

  The House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Health, held a hearing on the regulatory approval process for medical devices Thursday, presumably as preparation for action on H.R. 1346, the Medical Device Safety Act — sponsored by the committee’s chairman, Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ). The American Association for Justice certainly regarded the hearing as serving that purpose, specifically citing the legislation in its news release, “Questions about FDA Oversight of Medical Devices Leave Patients Vulnerable.”

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