9/25/2025 4:00:57 PM What could a Government Shutdown mean for the Health Care Industry? By Matthew Loughran September 30 is the end of Fiscal Year 2025 for the federal government. If the Congress does not pass a continuing resolution or the...
8/6/2025 10:08:14 PM New California Medical Debt Disclosure Law Now in Effect—What Providers Need to Know Now By Paul Pitts James Hennessy Smita Patil Effective July 1, 2025, California law requires any contract creating medical debt to include a specific consumer disclosure indicating...
7/17/2025 1:57:13 PM Medicare Changes as a Result of 2025 Reconciliation Law Could Be Substantial By Paul Pitts Nancy Halstead Nicole Aiken-Shaban James Hennessy Matthew Loughran Liyun Huang +3 more... Show less This is the second in a series of blog posts designed to provide a deeper dive into the provisions of the 2025 Reconciliation Law...
7/14/2025 2:18:44 AM Reconciliation Bill Blocks Funding For Family Planning Services, Reproductive Health, and Related Medical Care By Lesley Reynolds Sarah Cummings Stewart Kristin Parker Matthew Loughran +1 more... Show less This is the first in a series of blog posts designed to provide a deeper dive into the provisions of the 2025 Reconciliation Law...
7/6/2025 2:30:16 AM Senate Version of Reconciliation Bill Becomes Law By Matthew Loughran On July 4, President Trump got his wish and was able to hold a signing ceremony for the Reconciliation Bill that put into effect many of...
6/20/2025 1:01:54 AM Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors By Scot T. Hasselman Lesley Reynolds Sarah Cummings Stewart Kristin Parker +1 more... Show less On June 18, 2025, in a decision with multiple concurrences and dissents, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Tennessee’s SB1, which...
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...
5/23/2025 7:47:57 PM Breaking down the Health Care Impacts of the One Big [Reconciliation] Bill By Scot T. Hasselman Carol Loepere Matthew Loughran After 28 hours of deliberation including a marathon Rules Committee meeting that saw more than 500 proposed Democratic amendments, the...
10/9/2024 4:01:25 AM New California law to regulate automated claims processing using modern technology, like AI By Wendell Bartnick Vanessa Perumal California’s new law, SB 1120, set to take effect on January 1, 2025, regulates how health care service plans (HCSPs) and disability...
5/21/2024 3:30:26 PM FDA LDT Rule Begins Enforcement Discretion Phaseout, But Some Discretion Remains By Rebecca Jones McKnight Kevin Madagan Sarah Thompson Schick Akosua Tuffuor +1 more... Show less On May 14, 2024, FDA hosted a webinar to provide an overview of its final rule “Medical Devices; Laboratory Developed Tests” as well as...
4/29/2024 2:32:31 AM The FDA’s Continued Search for a Legal Pathway for CBD Products By Elliot Race Elliott is a law clerk at the firm and his work is supervised by licensed attorneys. His admission to the New York bar is pending. During...
3/22/2024 2:34:52 PM States’ legislative reaction to Dobbs impacts consumer health data privacy By Wendell Bartnick Angela Matney Vicki Tankle Nancy Halstead +1 more... Show less In the two years since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision from the Supreme Court, state legislatures and courts have attempted...
3/11/2024 5:17:57 PM Was the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 Legitimately Passed by the House? By Matthew Loughran Not a question that we thought we would be asking more than a year after the large omnibus package was signed into law by President...
11/30/2023 1:04:36 AM Senate Bill Would Create Drug Pricing Floor On Part D Reimbursement to Certain Pharmacies, Make Other Pharmacy Contracting Changes By Robert Hill Matthew Loughran On Nov. 8, 2023, the Senate Finance Committee voted 26-0 to approve the Better Mental Health, Lower Cost Drugs, and Extenders Act. Among...
11/29/2023 12:26:47 AM Artificial Intelligence at the White House and on the Hill: A look at implications for health care By Wendell Bartnick Vanessa Perumal Recent efforts by the federal government to develop a strategy for guiding (and regulating) the use of artificial intelligence (AI) have...