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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 the…Read More

President Trump unveiled his 2026 budget proposal. Key health care takeaways include: 1) The Department of Health and Human Services will receive funding to promote nutrition, physical activity and healthy lifestyles; 2) VA medical centers will receive additional funding, and veterans will be able to access care from local providers; 3) funding for National Institutes…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

Indiana will become the 11th state to prohibit or limit physician noncompete agreements with hospitals after the Indiana legislature passed a bill (which the governor is expected to sign) that will ban all such noncompetes entered into on or after July 1, 2025. Hall Render will host a webinar on this topic on May 20,…Read More

Historically, health care entities looking to avoid potential violations under the Federal Stark Law (“Stark”) have not turned to the Payments by a Physician exception at 42 C.F.R. § 411.357(i) to protect their operations. A review of the exception’s history, however, combined with recent experience with pending submissions to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…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 Indiana General Assembly recently passed Senate Enrolled Act No. 475 (“SEA 475”), which will ban new noncompete agreements between physicians and covered health care entities entered into on or after July 1, 2025. Governor Braun is expected to sign the bill. As explained further below, the noncompete ban applies to hospitals, hospital systems, parent…Read More