Foley Hoag’s Government Strategies practice is active in all aspects of policymaking at the federal level. Our lawyers collaborate with our clients and the public sector to achieve mutually beneficial solutions to public policy issues. We pride ourselves on our ability to secure our clients’ strategic goals by combining a deep, substantive knowledge of issues critical to our clients’ businesses and industries with a mastery of federal legislative and regulatory processes.

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  • Foley Hoag Expands Government Strategies Team  [Read More]
  • Eileen Smith Ewing Joins Foley Hoag to Co-Chair Life Sciences Practice  [Read More]
  • Foley Hoag Lawyers in Chambers USA 2010  [Read More]
  • Foley Hoag Launches Healthcare Law and Policy Blog  [Read More]

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  • FDA Recommends Actions to Improve Oversight of Medical Devices [Read More]
  • Phase II of the FDA’s Transparency Initiative: The Transparency Task Force Releases Draft Recommendations on FDA’s Public Disclosure Policies  [Read More]
  • Cutting-Edge Research and Development Receives Boost from Health Care Reform: An Overview of the Cures Acceleration Network [Read More]
  • Jump-Starting Biomedical Research and Development: The New Therapeutic Tax Credit and Cash Grant Program [Read More]
  • President Obama Extends COBRA Subsidy Until May 31, 2010 [Read More]

Client Successes more

  • Comprehensive Health Care Reform Enacted into Law
    After more than a year of deliberations, Congress has enacted comprehensive health reform in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, Pub. L. No. 111-148) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (H.R. 4872).  Foley Hoag worked with Congress, the Administration, life sciences industry leaders, and national patient advocates on critical components of the new laws, which are intended to expand coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans, restructure the health insurance market, and reshape the marketplace for life sciences innovation.  A summary of the new laws can be found here. [Read More]
  • Critical Patient Protections and Insurance Reforms Enacted

    Foley Hoag worked with leading national patient advocacy organizations to secure important reforms that will protect patients and their families, promote prevention and wellness services, and improve the quality of health care.  These reforms included elimination of lifetime limits and annual limits on health benefits, requiring insurers to provide dependent coverage until age 26, prohibiting discrimination based on health status, pre-existing conditions or disability, and important improvements in guaranteed issue and renewal.

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