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American Healthcare REIT experienced a seasonal decline in skilled nursing occupancy, but the negative impact was mitigated by strong performance of its senior health campus segment, which is managed by Trilogy Health Services. That segment reported a 24.1% year-over-year same-store NOI growth in Q2. Similarly, Sabra Health Care REIT reported that its senior housing portfolio…Read More

Beginning on August 1, 2024, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) launched a three-year Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (the “Program”). This initiative expands the opportunity for health care whistleblowers, adding private health insurance claims to their quiver. It does so by allowing whistleblowers to report corporate misconduct to the DOJ’s Criminal Division through their website….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

A federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently declined a request to temporarily block the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) worker non-compete rule (“Final Rule”). ATS Tree Services, LLC (“ATS”), a tree removal company, had requested that the Court issue a preliminary injunction to block the Final Rule, arguing that ATS needed to prevent…Read More

On April 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) published the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (the “Final Rule”). This Final Rule strengthens the privacy protections under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) for reproductive health care by prohibiting…Read More

Tenet Health has agreed to sell 70% of its ownership interest in five hospitals and their affiliated physician groups in Birmingham, Alabama to Orlando Health for $910M. Community Health Systems (“CHS”) reaffirmed its plan to sell $1B worth of hospitals in the near future. Earlier this year, CHS announced its plan to sell hospitals in…Read More

A Special Master for the Central District Court of California granted a motion to compel the disclosure of investigative documents that are no longer under seal in the course of an ongoing False Claims Act claim. UnitedHealth Group, Inc., et al. (“United”) filed a motion to compel the United States (“government”) to produce documents and…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