On July 3, 2012, as part of a wider legislative package focusing on consumer protection related issues, the European Commission (the "Commission") announced a proposed reform of the Insurance Mediation Directive (the "IMD").

We have written in the past about the strange quirk in Medicaid law that prohibits Medicaid from paying for medical services for individuals who are patients in an "institution for mental disease" ...

The final bipartisan opioid package, which passed in the Senate this week and is expected to be signed into law, includes a significant revision from the original House bill

The forthcoming implementation of the Solvency II Directive is one of the main drivers for the review of IMD I.

On Monday, CMS finalized their long-awaited Medicaid managed care regulation. Deep in the regulation was a change to allow Medicaid reimbursement for facilities that had previously been excluded from receiving payments.

On 5 November 2014, the Permanent Representatives Committee, on behalf of the EU Council, reached agreement on the general approach to the now recast Insurance Mediation Directive (IMD 2 – now the Insurance Distribution Directive). This follows the publication in recent weeks of three further compromise texts

The new norms governing Portfolio Managers services, doubling a portfolio manager's net worth requirement to ₹5 crore, giving the existing ones three years to meet the revised norms.

Securities and Exchange Board of India vide its circular CIR/IMD/FIIC/4/2014 has modified its earlier circular CIR/IMD/FIIC/6/2013 dated April 01, 2013.

Gabriel Bernardino, Chairman of EIOPA, has suggested various methods of enhancing consumer protection in insurance investment products.

Despite it having appeared that the new draft IMD 2 Directive had been kicked into the long grass, there have been some recent developments.

CMS has published a notice announcing the preliminary federal share disproportionate share hospital allotments for fiscal year 2014.

Directive 2002/92 on Insurance Mediation (IMD) lays down rules for the taking-up and pursuit of the activities of insurance and reinsurance mediation by both natural and legal persons which are established, or who wish to become established, in a Member State.

On November 13, 2018 CMS (as mandated by Congress in the 21st Century cures Act) issued a State Medicaid Director Letter providing states with guidance on both

When first Enron, and then WorldCom, collapsed in spectacular fashion to be followed by many others (including Parmalat which removed any residual European belief that these were American problems), the headlines were screaming ‘accounting scandal’ as if this was the sole cause of these failures.

The Medicaid IMD exclusion waiver is currently pending CMS approval.

In the IMD World Competitiveness Ranking 2025, Cyprus slipped from 43rd to 44th place out of 69 economies. While the shift appears small, the underlying metrics reveal key changes in the island's investment...

On Friday, Mintz Levin Health Law and ML Strategies posted an advisory on CMS's proposed Medicaid Managed Care rules.

The Massachusetts Secretary of the EOHHS sent a letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma taking her and HHS Secretary Tom Price up on their offer to grant states more flexibility under the Medicaid program.

The Insurance Distribution Directive ("IDD") recasts the Insurance Mediation Directive ("IMD I").

This article is part of a series that takes an in-depth look at several proposals that would affect managed care organizations, health care providers and other industry stakeholders participating in, and contracting with participants of, state Medicaid and CHIP managed care programs.