{"id":591,"date":"2024-01-17T17:16:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2024-01-17T17:16:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T17:16:14","slug":"icymi-biden-administration-drops-appeal-on-the-copay-accumulator-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/icymi-biden-administration-drops-appeal-on-the-copay-accumulator-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Biden Administration Drops Appeal on the Copay Accumulator Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden Administration has dropped its <a title=\"https:\/\/assets.law360news.com\/1770000\/1770497\/notice%20of%20appeal%2011-28.pdf\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/assets.law360news.com\/1770000\/1770497\/notice%20of%20appeal%2011-28.pdf\">previous appeal<\/a> of an October U.S. District Court decision to <a title=\"https:\/\/hivhep.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/HIV-Hepatitis-Policy-Institute-v.-HHS-DDC-opinion.pdf\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/hivhep.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/HIV-Hepatitis-Policy-Institute-v.-HHS-DDC-opinion.pdf\">strike down <\/a>a <a title=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2020-10045.pdf\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2020-10045.pdf\">2021 rule<\/a> allowing copay accumulators. <a title=\"https:\/\/buddycarter.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/help_copays_hhs_letter.pdf\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/buddycarter.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/help_copays_hhs_letter.pdf\">House<\/a> and <a title=\"https:\/\/www.kaine.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/kaine_marshall_letter_on_copay_accumulators.pdf\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaine.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/kaine_marshall_letter_on_copay_accumulators.pdf\">Senate<\/a> members urged the administration to drop its appeal, including via introduction of bipartisan, bicameral legislation, the <em>HELP Copays Act<\/em>. 19 States have banned copay accumulator programs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DOJ Drops Appeal In Copay Accumulator Suit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mB6SejOIta\">https:\/\/t.co\/mB6SejOIta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 InsideHealthPolicy (@InHealthPolicy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InHealthPolicy\/status\/1747417970815750578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden Administration has dropped its previous appeal of an October U.S. District Court decision to strike down a 2021 rule allowing copay accumulators. House and Senate members urged the administration to drop its appeal, including via introduction of bipartisan, bicameral legislation, the HELP Copays Act. 19 States have banned copay accumulator programs. &nbsp; DOJ &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/17\/icymi-biden-administration-drops-appeal-on-the-copay-accumulator-decision\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ICYMI: Biden Administration Drops Appeal on the Copay Accumulator Decision&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,15,17],"issue":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-icymi","tag-legislative-updates","tag-regulatory-updates","tag-judiciary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.hhs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}