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Health care continues to drive private equity (“PE”) activity, creating opportunities for investors and traditional health care providers. Transactions in the health care space are especially complicated, layering health care regulatory and reimbursement considerations on top of a complex securities, antitrust, privacy and security framework. Hall Render’s PE team of attorneys and advisors leverage... READ MORE

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) is reinforcing regulatory expectations regarding nursing home residents’ rights to vote. On September 26, 2024, CMS issued a QSO Memo, “Compliance with Residents’ Rights requirement related to Nursing Home Residents’ Right to Vote.” CMS reminds nursing homes of the regulatory expectations that residents of nursing homes... READ MORE

NATIONAL 3 federal moves to address rural healthcare gap 340B purchases hit $66.3B in 2023 100M hit by Change Healthcare breach AHA pushes for hospital-at-home changes Amazon One Medical, Cleveland Clinic partner on primary care Big systems looking ‘outside of the four walls of the hospital’ Calm Health, UnitedHealthcare form partnership: 3 notes Cigna-Humana... READ MORE

A new report from Silicon Valley Bank analyzes the state of the health care technology market. The top U.S. regions for health care technology companies are New York, San Francisco, Massachusetts, Austin and Nashville. Nearly half of all health technology investments this year have gone to AI companies. Executives at several health systems announced... READ MORE

Health care continues to drive private equity (“PE”) activity, creating opportunities for investors and traditional health care providers. Transactions in the health care space are especially complicated, layering health care regulatory and reimbursement considerations on top of a complex securities, antitrust, privacy and security framework. Hall Render’s PE team of attorneys and advisors leverage... READ MORE

Hall Render is pleased to announce Song Faulkner has joined the firm in its Denver office. Song Faulkner is a health care attorney based in the firm’s Denver office, where she focuses on advising health care providers on transactional and compliance matters. She is passionate about helping clients, including hospitals and health systems, navigate... READ MORE

Effective October 1, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) introduced significant updates to the CMS-855A form, specifically requiring a new Skilled Nursing Facility (“SNF”) Attachment for every SNF. These changes, following the implementation of regulations finalized in November 2023, impact how SNFs disclose detailed ownership and management information. The adjustments stem... READ MORE

The government lawsuit against defendants Precision Lens and its founder Paul Ehlen, United States ex rel. Fesenmaier v. Cameron-Ehlen Group, Inc. (“Fesenmaier”), has garnered substantial media attention. This is due in part to juicy facts (kickbacks to physicians in such forms as fancy meals and exclusive vacations for which physicians were invoiced at below... READ MORE

Hall Render is pleased to announce Chandani Patel has joined the firm in its Dallas office. Chandani focuses her practice on compliance and federal advocacy matters. Additionally, Chandani assists with medical staff-related issues and litigation. As a first-generation attorney from a family of health care providers, Chandani offers clients, including hospitals and health systems,... READ MORE

In August 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) issued two compliance policies that outlined its strategy for enforcing the drug distribution security requirements established by the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (“DSCSA”), which were set to take effect on November 27, 2023. To support trading partners in meeting these requirements, FDA implemented... READ MORE