Up to one in six nursing home residents may be the victim of abuse or neglect every year. In late 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule revising the requirements that Long-Term Care Facilities must meet to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. […]

On February 15, 2017, a bipartisan group of members in the House of Representatives introduced the Military Hunger Prevention Act, a bill that would help active-duty military members qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), more commonly known as food stamps. SNAP was implemented to address food insecurity and […]

During his Joint Address to Congress on the evening of February 28, President Donald Trump denounced the decades-old prescription drug approval process, pledging to “slash the restraints” of the current regulatory landscape at the US Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”).  “Our slow and burdensome approval process at the Food and […]

President Trump announced Neil Gorsuch as his Supreme Court nominee in late January 2017.  Judge Gorsuch, a 49-year-old federal appellate judge based in Colorado, currently sits on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.  His legal career reflects a rapid ascent to the upper echelons of the American judicial system.  After […]

Notwithstanding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 (“Obamacare” or “the ACA”), the 21st Century Cures Act is the largest health care innovation treatment-based American law in over a decade. Signed by President Barack Obama in December 2016 as one of his last major acts as the head […]