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 Practice  [Read More]

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  • CMS Releases Proposed “Sunshine” Physician Payment Reporting Rule for Drug and Device Manufacturers: Record-Keeping Requirement Delayed Until Later in 2012  [Read More]
  • Genes, Coding, and Bold Action [Read More]
  • U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Constitutionality of Affordable Care Act [Read More]
  • United States Supreme Court Strikes Down Vermont Pharmaceutical “Data Mining” Law [Read More]
  • FDA Releases Proposed Medical Device Reforms [Read More]

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  • 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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