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President Trump’s first week in office ushered in a number of changes to health care policies, including an executive order rescinding President Biden’s executive order on lowering prescription drug costs. The president also selected Dorothy Fink, MD, as interim HHS Secretary. Nonprofit hospitals’ credit downgrades outpaced credit upgrades in 2024, according to a recent article. The three…Read More

The Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act (“AI Act”), enacted in 2024, becomes effective February 1, 2026. It has been called the first comprehensive AI law in the country, likened to the European Union AI Law, and predicted to be first tested in employment disputes. In Part 1 of this article, we cover the basics of the AI Act…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 the…Read More

The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (“HSR Act”), as amended, requires all persons contemplating certain mergers or acquisitions that meet or exceed the jurisdictional thresholds (shown below) to file a premerger notification (an “HSR Filing”) with the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) Premerger Notification Office and Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Antitrust Division and to wait…Read More

Later this month, the list of states that allow nursing home and assisted living facility residents and their families to place cameras and electronic monitoring devices in resident rooms will grow. Effective January 30, 2025, residents in Rhode Island nursing homes and assisted living facilities shall be permitted to conduct authorized electronic monitoring of the…Read More

This past week, the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS,” and together with the DEA, the “Agencies”) announced the release of three highly anticipated rules related to the prescription of controlled substances through telemedicine. These new rules include: A final rule on the “Expansion of Buprenorphine Treatment via…Read More

Hall Render is proud to present the next installment of the Black Health Care Executive Spotlight, a series celebrating the achievements and contributions of Black leaders in the health care industry. Through interviews with executives from hospitals, health systems and other provider groups, the series aims to showcase the diverse perspectives shaping the future of…Read More

VMG Health published its Health System Leader Expectations for 2025. Key takeaways include: (1) Physician recruitment and retention is a top priority; (2) Increased utilization is the main driver of positive financial performance; (3) More value-based arrangements are expected this year; (4) Joint ventures will remain popular, especially in the ASC and behavioral health spaces; (5)…Read More

On January 15, 2025, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that it recovered over $2.9 billion in False Claims Act (“FCA”) related settlements and judgments in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024 (“FY2024”). The 2024 recovery amount exceeds the previous year’s recovery of $2.68 billion, with the number of settlements and judgments coming in at 558. Whistleblowers filed…Read More