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Trump Administration Joins Challenge to CO’s AI Law On April 24, the U.S. Department of Justice joined a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, seeking to block Colorado’s...
Trump Administration Expands Medicaid Fraud Scrutiny to All 50 States In an effort to fight fraud, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid is requiring all 50 states to submit plans for revalidating their...
On Jan. 7, 2025, two weeks before Donald Trump was inaugurated, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Biden administration issued a new rule barring credit reporting agencies from reporting...
ME Lawmakers Pass Data Center Ban The Maine Legislature passed a bill ( HB 207 ) that would make the state the first to temporarily ban the development of large data centers. The measure would impose...
State and Federal Funding Flowing for Ibogaine Research President Donald Trump signed an executive order providing up to $50 million in federal funding for states to conduct research on ibogaine, a psychedelic...
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In an effort to fight fraud, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid is requiring all 50 states to submit plans for revalidating their Medicaid providers. CMS had already requested information about Medicaid programs in California, Florida, Maine, Minnesota and New York, and halted $243 million in Medicaid payments to Minnesota because of fraud concerns. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill (SB 2040) that would ban pharmacy benefit managers from owning or controlling pharmacies in the state. The bill would apply to just one company, CVS Health, since it’s the only one that owns both types of business in the state. The company said it plans to file a lawsuit to block the measure, as it did last year against a similar bill enacted in Arkansas (HB 1150 [2025]). (TENNESSEE LOOKOUT, LEXISNEXIS STATE NET)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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