The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) published a report in September 2018 after a review of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) policies, procedures, and guidance relating to cybersecurity reviews of networked medical1 devices. In its findings, covered in our recent client alert, the OIG determined that while the FDA has started to include cybersecurity concerns in its review process, the FDA should take steps to ensure their cybersecurity review is systematic and…

Last month, New Jersey joined several other states in adopting a new regulation limiting payments and gifts that can be made by pharmaceutical manufacturers to health care providers. The regulation caps include a maximum of $10,000 per calendar year for a prescriber’s bona fide services, and $15 per meal. Additional information about this new regulation is available in our client alert, or by contacting one of the authors.…

Washington D.C. Partner Kevin Madagan of Reed Smith’s Life Science Health Industry group will participate in an exert legal panel discussion at the 2017 Health Care Distribution Alliance (HDA) Traceability Seminar held November 8-10 in Washington D.C. Implementation of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) continues to transform the pharmaceutical supply chain. As the industry works toward the law’s 2023 finish line, HDA’s annual traceability seminar  brings together healthcare supply chain leaders to learn…

On October 25, 2017, FDA released a critical draft guidance on the breakthrough medical device pathway established by the 21st Century Cures Act (the “Cures Act”). The Draft Guidance For Industry, Breakthrough Device Pathway (“Draft Guidance”) reflects FDA’s proposal regarding the process by which a sponsor may seek a designation as a breakthrough device, assigning a team of staff to review devices designated for expedited development and priority review; and information about the criteria that…

The Federal Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) recently published a draft guidance to assist industry and State and local governments in understanding how to categorize entities in the drug supply chain in accordance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (“DSCSA”). The DSCSA establishes product tracing, licensure, reporting, and other requirements for certain trading partners in the drug supply chain, including manufacturers, repackagers, wholesale distributors, dispensers, and third-party logistics providers or 3PLs. Since November 2013,…

On January 13, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a discussion paper concerning an updated proposed framework for oversight of laboratory developed tests (LDTs).  According to FDA, the updated proposal is the result of ongoing engagement with industry stakeholders.   Under the proposal, the FDA generally stands by its position that a complementary risk-based oversight framework that involves both the FDA and the CMS Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments (CLIA) program is the preferable alternative…