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On April 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”) Proposed Rule (“Proposed Rule”). The Proposed Rule brings a significant change in that it confirms CMS will adopt updated labor market area delineations based on the 2020 Census, taking effect on October 1, 2024. Hospitals…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

BBG Real Estate Services published its Seniors Housing Investor Survey 2024. Among the findings include: (i) cap rates for senior housing are expected to remain flat or decrease in 2024; (ii) rental rate growth is expected to increase significantly, particularly for assisted living and memory care; and (iii) higher transaction volume is expected to be…Read More

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently issued Advisory Opinion No. 23-15 (“Advisory Opinion”), a favorable opinion involving a consulting firm’s (“Requestor”) proposal to offer gift cards to its existing physician practice customers for referring potential new customers. The OIG approved the Proposed Arrangement (defined below), noting that…Read More

Health care continues to drive private equity 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 private equity team of attorneys and advisors leverage the…Read More

Steward Health Care plans to sell its physician group to Optum. The health system has struggled financially and believes the sale will provide much-needed cash for the health system. Steward’s physician group operates in nine states. Georgia lawmakers have tentatively agreed on a plan to provide several exceptions to the state’s Certificate of Need (CON)…Read More

The Texas Medical Board (“TMB” or “Board”) has opened a public comment period for its newly proposed rules and purported guidance concerning the provision of emergency abortions under Texas’ current abortion laws, known to be some of the most restrictive in the country. These proposed rules aim to define the conditions under which abortions may…Read More