11/5/2025 2:41:39 AM CMS Makes Permanent Virtual Direct Supervision for Diagnostic Tests By Tom Greeson Paul Pitts James Hennessy Smita Patil Matthew Loughran Liyun Huang +3 more... Show less On October 31, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued the Calendar Year 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule...
9/9/2025 4:15:34 PM HHS Announces Crackdown on Health Data Blocking By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle In the first week of September, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a renewed enforcement focus on...
8/21/2025 1:55:17 PM HHS issues No Surprises Act FAQs in response to Fifth Circuit vacating prior panel opinion By Megan K. Ali The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), along with several other agencies (the Departments of Labor and Treasury, as...
7/22/2025 10:24:29 PM Recent Legislative and Regulatory Updates for Long-Term Care Facilities By Carol Loepere Craig Anderson Sebnem Dugmeoglu Recent guidance from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), along with the passage of the 2025 Reconciliation Law...
7/8/2025 2:37:52 AM HHS Announces Policy on Criminal Referrals for Regulatory Violations By Rebecca Jones McKnight Nancy Halstead Matthew Loughran The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a new general policy on what factors the agency will take into...
7/2/2025 10:30:42 PM HHS Still Seeking Public Input on Deregulation Efforts By Scot T. Hasselman Matthew Loughran The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is still looking for stakeholders to comment on what regulations should be...
6/19/2025 1:09:37 PM Federal Court Vacates 2024 Reproductive Health Privacy Rule By Vicki Tankle Nancy Halstead Angela Matney Sarah Cummings Stewart Kristin Parker +2 more... Show less Late on Wednesday June 18, Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an order...
6/18/2025 2:40:08 PM New Oregon Law Targets MSO Involvement in Medical Practices By Scot T. Hasselman Nicole Aiken-Shaban Meghan Healey Matthew Loughran +1 more... Show less On June 9, 2025, Oregon updated its Corporate Practice of Medicine (“CPOM”) doctrine by passing SB 951, to, among other things, prohibit...
3/19/2025 11:58:38 PM Elimination of the Richardson Waiver Means Changes . . . But To What End? By Scot T. Hasselman Lesley Reynolds David Bender Matthew Loughran +1 more... Show less In February 1971, at the tail end of Richard Nixon’s first term, his Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Elliot Richardson,...
3/18/2025 9:39:56 PM Information blocking victory in favor of access to health data By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle In a significant ruling among the first to analyze the application of information blocking regulations, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
3/5/2025 4:05:33 PM Reed Smith’s 11th Annual (Virtual) Health Care Conference Coming March 17-21 By Matthew Loughran Reed Smith has announced the dates and topics for it’s 11th annual health care conference from March 17-21, 2024. The conference will be...
2/4/2025 3:30:41 AM What Does DEA’s Proposed Special Registration Framework for Tele-prescribing Controlled Substances Mean? By Tom Greeson Liyun Huang On January 17, 2025, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced a proposed rule to establish a special registration framework...
1/17/2025 4:54:04 PM OIG Issues Favorable Opinion on Free Access to Pharmaceutical Products By Nicole Aiken-Shaban Courtney Potts Meghan Healey In its first advisory opinion of the year, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a...
6/3/2024 2:38:43 PM HHS Pledges $50 million to Empower Hospitals in the Battle Against Cyberattacks By Amica Nesbitt Hospitals and large healthcare organizations have increasingly become prime targets for cybercriminals. In response, the Department of...
4/22/2024 2:50:56 AM FTC, HHS, and DOJ Launch Portal to Report Anticompetitive Health Care Practices By Carol Loepere Michelle Mantine Nicole Aiken-Shaban Courtney Averbach Matthew Loughran +2 more... Show less Last week, on April 18, several federal agencies jointly launched a “one-stop shop” to facilitate reporting of allegedly anticompetitive...
4/2/2024 4:13:35 PM FDA Proposed Rule Establishes Criteria for Difficult Drugs to Compound Under Sections 503A and 503B By Kelly Kearney Susan Dewey Amica Nesbitt Madhav Bhatt +1 more... Show less The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed a rule on “Drug Products or Categories of Drug Products that Present...