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The Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003

Client Alert | 1 min read | 01.01.04

The President has signed into law the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. The Act is a far-reaching recasting of the Medicare law, most notably in the creation of a new drug benefit. It also makes major changes to the Medicare coordinated care plan program, now to be called Medicare Advantage, radically restructures the Medicare intermediary contracting program, changes provider reimbursement, creates a new form of health savings account with potentially significant tax advantages, and changes many other aspects of the almost 40-year old program.

Click here to download Crowell & Moring's summary of the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 [doc].

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Client Alert | 3 min read | 01.05.26

Another Court Rules CASA Does Not Limit Universal Relief Available Under the APA

In Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court significantly constrained the equitable authority of federal district courts to grant universal or nationwide injunctive relief, clarifying that, with specific exceptions, a federal court’s power to grant relief is limited to the parties before it. When it was issued, many bemoaned CASA’s implications for preventing government overreach....