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08.09.16

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights, August 9, 2016

CMS targets Medicaid managed care pass-through payments; California proposes “California Qualified Health Plans” for the undocumented; and a new study finds out-of-pocket costs were reduced by nearly a third for Medicaid expansion enrollees.


08.04.16

Overdraft Service Program Costs Bank $10M in CFPB Fine

Overdraft services practices were the basis for a $10 million fine from the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) in a recent action against a national bank operating primarily in the northeast.


08.04.16

Olympic Games Too Important to Leave to Private Organization

The numerous well-publicized problems besetting the Rio Olympic games before they even start are symptomatic of a larger problem: the inability of a private organization to run an event of that magnitude.


08.04.16

Court Awake to Plaintiff's Deceptive Sleep-Tracking Claims Against Fitbit

A challenge to Fitbit’s claims that certain models of its exercise monitoring device tracked users’ sleep patterns will move forward after a California federal court judge denied the company’s motion to dismiss.


08.02.16

Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights, August 2, 2016

Oregon’s hospitals see improved financial performance following the ACA; CMS denies Indiana’s request for an additional lock-out period in Medicaid expansion program; and a new Manatt Health report details Medicaid funding options for social services.


07.29.16

NBA All-Star Game Transfer Has Unintended Consequences

When sports organizations take political stands, the result is often unintended consequences.


07.28.16

Estimated State Budget Impact of an Oklahoma SoonerCare Expansion

If Oklahoma takes up the option of covering adults with incomes up to 138% FPL under SoonerCare, it is projected that 272,000 individuals would gain coverage in the new adult group during 2019 (the first calendar year of full enrollment after a ramp-up period).


07.28.16

Take Two: EEOC Amends Pay Data Collection Proposal

Tweaking its initial plan, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released an updated proposal about the collection of pay data from employers.


07.28.16

Sen. Franken Hits Pause on Pokémon GO

After the Pokémon GO app was downloaded approximately 7.5 million times in the United States alone in its first week of release, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), the chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, wrote to the company about its privacy policy.


07.28.16

Manatt on Medicaid: Monthly Expansion Recap, July 2016

The joint legislative council that sued Governor Bill Walker (I) over his executive order expanding Medicaid voted to drop its lawsuit after Superior Court Judge Frank Pfiffner ruled that the House could not substitute itself as the plaintiff in the case.