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By: Andrew Silverio, Esq. With a few lines tucked into a July 09, 2021 executive order, the Biden administration clarified what had recently become a murky outlook on the future of fully legal foreign drug importation programs. Initially, a July…
Good to Be Back
By: Ron E. Peck, Esq. Regardless of whether you are an employer, or service employers, or both (like The Phia Group), one question keeps popping up. As restrictions are lifted in each State, people find themselves emerging from their basement…
By: Jon Jablon, Esq. The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) requires health plans to “show their work” by performing a comprehensive NQTL Comparative Analysis of the group’s health plan, both as written and in operation. At a…
By: Nick Bonds, Esq. The current lineup on the Supreme Court’s bench leaves it with a six-justice conservative majority, meaning the cases it takes up will almost certainly move American jurisprudence decidedly to the right. This shift is visible in…
HHS Resolves the Conflict – Sex Discrimination Includes Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
By: Andrew Silverio, Esq. Recently, HHS resolved a conflict which arose last year between the position of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Supreme Court decision Bostock v. Clayton County. This new interpretation reverses the position outlined in…
The New Normal… Same as the Old Normal?
By: Ron E. Peck, Esq. We are already almost halfway through 2021; can you believe it? Throughout 2020, I recall many people (myself included) desperately looking forward to a better 2021. We all convinced ourselves that 2021 would result in…
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