Last week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a measurement standards laboratory in the United States Department of Commerce, released draft version 1.1 of its Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity....

On January 12, 2017, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) members unanimously voted to maintain Medicare’s existing updates (i.e., maintain the increases Congress and the HHS Secretary have already established) to hospital and physician...

A federal court in California recently granted a summary judgment motion filed by Blue Shield of California (“Blue Shield”), allowing it to avoid liability for alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”). Blue Shield relied...

Patent protection for methods claims can be tricky. Particularly for medical devices, diagnostics and even drugs, methods claims can present dilemmas for enforcement. It can boil down to the key question of "who" – who performs each of the required...