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A joint venture among MUSC, McLeod Health, Hope Health and Francis Marion University, along with the State of South Carolina, opened a behavioral health facility in Florence, South Carolina, to expand mental health services and replace an outdated facility. The $123M facility includes 63 inpatient beds. AdventHealth purchased a 35,000-square-foot medical office building in downtown…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 Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals (also referred to as the “Court” or the “Seventh Circuit”) recently ruled that a plaintiff’s religious accommodation claim should proceed to trial, applying the heightened “undue hardship” standard established in 2023 by the U.S. Supreme Court in Groff v. DeJoy (“Groff“). In Kluge v. Brownsburg Community School Corp. (“Kluge“),…Read More

Effective September 1, 2025, Texas Senate Bill No. 1188 (“SB 1188”) imposes new legal obligations on health care practitioners and other covered entities regarding the privacy, security and management of electronic health records (“EHRs”) and the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”). Key provisions of the law include: A requirement that EHRs be maintained in the…Read More

This week, we’re taking a break from our usual briefing format to spotlight 10 key trends currently influencing the hospital real estate market. From pediatric hospital expansions to adaptive reuse projects, these developments are shaping strategies nationwide. If there’s a trend you’re seeing that’s not on our list, we’d love to hear from you. And…Read More

In United States ex rel. Sedona Partners LLC v. Able Moving & Storage Inc., the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (the “Court”) recently reversed a district court’s ruling that relators could not use materials obtained during discovery to satisfy the heightened pleading requirement under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b) (“Rule 9(b)”).  Background The False…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

On July 1, 2025, the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”), in Advisory Opinion 25-08, considered a proposed arrangement by a medical device company (“Requestor”) that supplies “bill-only” surgical items, which are devices selected in real-time for specific procedures. The Requestor sought to pay a third-party vendor to access its Bill-Only Portal, a software platform the…Read More