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Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. 1. Is housing health care and should Medicaid pay the rent? States are using Medicaid programs to cover rent, security deposits and furniture per The New York Times. AZ is one state that has…Read More

On June 15, in American Hospital Association v. Becerra, the Supreme Court ruled the payment cuts made by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) for 340B eligible outpatient drugs were not permissible under the governing statute. The Court’s opinion rejected HHS’s argument that courts were barred…Read More

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently imposed financial penalties for the first time against two hospitals for failure to comply with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule requirements. According to the Notices of Imposition of Civil Monetary Penalty (“Notices”), which CMS posts on its website, the two hospitals were fined over $1,000,000 cumulatively…Read More

On June 7, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that it would launch an inquiry into the business practices of the nation’s six largest pharmacy benefit managers (“PBMs”). The inquiry will investigate the impact of vertically integrated PBMs on the access and affordability of prescription drugs. This news comes at a time when PBM…Read More

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. A number of stories involving hospitals and health care providers made the news last week. Our headline story includes a summary of health care trends that the consulting firm Sg2 published. The report makes…Read More

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. 1. The North Carolina Senate passed a bill that partially repeals its Certificate of Need (“CON”) law for facilities in rural areas and for certain medical specialties. The bill is headed to the House…Read More

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. Last week, North Carolina legislators proposed a bill that would alter the state’s Certificate of Need (“CON”) program. If passed, the bill would make it easier for certain providers to open new health care…Read More

A recent decision from the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted employers some modest flexibility in conducting and relying on background checks for potential new hires covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”). The court made two key rulings: Employers have no obligation under the FCRA to provide job applicants with the opportunity…Read More