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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) will publish the 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”) Final Rule (“Final Rule”) in the Federal Register on August 28 with an effective date of October 1, 2024. Along with increasing IPPS payments for FY 2025, the Final Rule introduces a new alternative payment model, funds additional…Read More

During the Federal Reserve’s annual retreat on Friday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell laid the groundwork for interest rate cuts in the near future. In his speech, Powell discussed how inflation has declined significantly and how the labor market has cooled off. A majority of officials at the meeting believe interest rates will be cut…Read More

Summer may be ending, but enforcement from the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (“OPDP”) is just heating up. After months of silence (see here for our discussion of OPDP’s first enforcement letter of 2024 five months ago), OPDP issued back-to-back Untitled Letters in July and August bringing the total for…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 August 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Baylor All Saints Med. Center v. Becerra (“Baylor“), vacated a 2023 regulation by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) that excluded certain Medicaid-covered patient stays when counting a hospital’s Medicaid patient population for Medicare payment purposes. Medicare DSH…Read More

On August 20, 2024, the federal judge in the Ryan, LLC lawsuit in Texas issued an order holding as unlawful and setting aside the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) worker non-compete rule (“Final Rule“). Importantly, the set aside remedy is nationwide in scope, which means the Final Rule “shall not be enforced or otherwise take effect…Read More

On August 15, 2024, a federal judge in the Middle District of Florida (“the Court”) granted a request to temporarily block the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) worker non-compete rule (“Final Rule“) as applied to the plaintiff, Properties of the Villages, Inc. (“POV”). Similar to the plaintiffs in the Ryan, LLC lawsuit in Texas and the…Read More

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