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NATIONAL AHA fires back at Arnold Ventures again Children’s hospital profit levels hit lowest point in a decade CMS releases No Surprises Act complaint data, enforcement report Epic unveils new AI, prior authorization features Healthcare bankruptcies on the decline Healthcare employers await FTC’s next move on noncompete clauses Hospitals hit with EMTALA complaints over... READ MORE

Summer may be ending, but enforcement from the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (“OPDP”) is just heating up. After months of silence (see here for our discussion of OPDP’s first enforcement letter of 2024 five months ago), OPDP issued back-to-back Untitled Letters in July and August bringing the total... 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

On August 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Baylor All Saints Med. Center v. Becerra (“Baylor“), vacated a 2023 regulation by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) that excluded certain Medicaid-covered patient stays when counting a hospital’s Medicaid patient population for Medicare payment purposes. Medicare... READ MORE

On August 20, 2024, the federal judge in the Ryan, LLC lawsuit in Texas issued an order holding as unlawful and setting aside the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) worker non-compete rule (“Final Rule“). Importantly, the set aside remedy is nationwide in scope, which means the Final Rule “shall not be enforced or otherwise take... READ MORE

On August 15, 2024, a federal judge in the Middle District of Florida (“the Court”) granted a request to temporarily block the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) worker non-compete rule (“Final Rule“) as applied to the plaintiff, Properties of the Villages, Inc. (“POV”). Similar to the plaintiffs in the Ryan, LLC lawsuit in Texas and... READ MORE

American Healthcare REIT experienced a seasonal decline in skilled nursing occupancy, but the negative impact was mitigated by strong performance of its senior health campus segment, which is managed by Trilogy Health Services. That segment reported a 24.1% year-over-year same-store NOI growth in Q2. Similarly, Sabra Health Care REIT reported that its senior housing... READ MORE

Beginning on August 1, 2024, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) launched a three-year Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (the “Program”). This initiative expands the opportunity for health care whistleblowers, adding private health insurance claims to their quiver. It does so by allowing whistleblowers to report corporate misconduct to the DOJ’s Criminal Division through their... READ MORE

NATIONAL After decline, private equity investment in healthcare reaches turning point: PitchBook Agencies issue update on BlackSuit ransomware group Amazon diving deeper into healthcare AI CMS ups ante on nursing home fines Cost report prompts tweaks to ACO REACH model Federal court sets date for EMTALA oral argument hearing in Idaho-based case Federal complaints... 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