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This Money Buys Equipment, Not Operations. Your 2031 Answer Decides the 2027 Deal.

August 27, 2026 by Athithi Verma
This Money Buys Equipment, Not Operations. Your 2031 Answer Decides the 2027 Deal.

Half the pot is split equally, so award size is a weak proxy for market size. Your buyer is a state rural health office, not a hospital.

Categories Access Read, In Depth, Legal & Policy, Market Access, The Brief

Evernorth Adopts LOCUS in Three States, and States That the Review Process Is Not Changing

August 27, 2026 by Athithi Verma
Evernorth Adopts LOCUS in Three States, and States That the Review Process Is Not Changing

Three statutes across five years, discharged on one date. Evernorth says only the source of criteria changes, not the review process itself.

Categories Access Read, Legal & Policy, Market Access, Quick, The Brief Tags Behavioral Health, Evernorth, Medical Necessity, Mental Health Parity, The Cigna Group, United States, Utilization Management

A Jury Convicted the Philips Engineer. The Approach Came as His Plant Was Closing.

August 27, 2026 by Athithi Verma
A Jury Convicted the Philips Engineer. The Approach Came as His Plant Was Closing.

The approach came in 2017 as Philips prepared to close the plant. A site closure is a knowledge event before it is a cost event.

Categories CI read, Diagnostics, Legal & Policy, Quick, The Brief Tags China, Kunshan GuoLi, legal & Policy, Medical imaging, Philips, Trade Secrets, United States, X-Ray Tubes

DOJ Settled With the In-Home Vendor, Not the Health Plan, Over Four Medicare Advantage Codes

August 27, 2026 by Athithi Verma
DOJ Settled With the In-Home Vendor, Not the Health Plan, Over Four Medicare Advantage Codes

DOJ did not settle with a health plan. It settled with the in-home vendor that supplied the codes, and named the risk-share contract as the incentive.

Categories Access Read, Cardio-Metabolic, Legal & Policy, Quick, The Brief Tags False Claims Act, legal & Policy, Medicare Advantage, Monogram Health, Risk Adjustment, United States

Teva Faces New Probe in Turkey Over Conduct Flagged by EU

August 27, 2026 by Athithi Verma
Teva Faces New Probe in Turkey Over Conduct Flagged by EU

Not a new theory of harm. It is the European Commission’s Copaxone decision run a second time, with two of the same corporate entities named.

Categories CI read, Legal & Policy, Neurology, Quick, The Brief Tags Competition Law, Divisional Patents, European Union, Generics, Teva, Turkey

PDUFA VIII Keeps Every Review Clock and Hires Four Auditors

August 20, 2026 by Athithi Verma
PDUFA VIII Keeps Every Review Clock and Hires Four Auditors

Industry renegotiated what it pays FDA without changing what it gets. The clocks held. What expanded is the apparatus for verifying the money buys reviewers.

Categories CI read, In Depth, Legal & Policy, Market Access, Regulatory, The Brief Tags Market Access

Four Health Systems Automated the Prior Authorization Question, Not the Answer

August 19, 2026 by Athithi Verma
Four Health Systems Automated the Prior Authorization Question, Not the Answer

The piece of the federal prior authorization mandate that shipped five months early is the piece that cannot deny anything.

Categories Access Read, Digital Health, In Depth, Legal & Policy, The Brief Tags Market Access

CMS Projects: Fewer Losses and Bigger Savings. That Only Works If the Sick Are Removed.

August 14, 2026 by Athithi Verma
CMS Projects: Fewer Losses and Bigger Savings. That Only Works If the Sick Are Removed.

CMS forecasts fewer disenrollments than CBO and higher savings. Both hold only if the people removed are the expensive ones, which means the sick.

Categories Access Read, Legal & Policy, Market Access, Quick, The Brief Tags AMN Healthcare, CBO, CMS, Medicaid, Pricing & Reimbursement, United States, Workforce Shortage

Lilly Can Sue the Sellers. It Can Only Ask the Payment Networks.

August 14, 2026 by Athithi Verma
Lilly Can Sue the Sellers. It Can Only Ask the Payment Networks.

Six suits against small peptide sellers is not a strategy for a market spanning a hundred countries. It is a demonstration attached to an appeal.

Categories Cardio-Metabolic, CI read, Legal & Policy, Peptide, Quick, The Brief Tags Eli Lilly, GLP-1, Litigation, Obesity, retatrutide, United States

Black Diamond Bought a Licence Instead of a Ruling, and Six Patents Stay Untested

August 13, 2026 by Athithi Verma
Black Diamond Bought a Licence Instead of a Ruling, and Six Patents Stay Untested

These were not patents on a drug. They were patents on the methods used to find one, and Black Diamond has agreed to pay rather than test them.

Categories CI read, Legal & Policy, Oncology, Quick, The Brief Tags Black Diamond Therapeutics, Discovery platforms, HMI Medical Innovations, Patent litigation, Settlements, United States
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