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Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) withdrew its complaint challenging the IQVIA and Propel Media merger after the parties announced their intent to abandon the deal. The decision comes after the FTC successfully secured a preliminary injunction in the District Court for the Southern District of New York (“the Court”) in January. The…Read More

On February 22, 2024, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that it recovered over $2.68 billion in False Claims Act (“FCA”) settlements and judgments during the 2023 federal fiscal year. Notably, this amount stems from the highest number of settlements and judgments in a single year, including 543 settlements and judgments during this last fiscal…Read More

JLL released its 2024 Senior Housing Investor Survey. Key takeaways: 1. Senior housing occupancy continues to show recovery following the pandemic; 2. Transaction volume was down 33% last year based on challenges in the capital markets; 3. Cap rates sit at 7%; 4. Construction starts are down more than 50% from 2021 peak levels; and…Read More

In the FY 2024 IPPS Final Rule (the “Final Rule”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) incorporated certain social risk factors into the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (“VBP”) Program (“the Program”). Set to begin in the FFY 2026 payment year, CMS will be using data on inpatient stays from January 1, 2024 through December…Read More

A Modern Healthcare article highlighted ways providers are increasingly turning to real estate transactions to generate cash flow to ease financial pressures and help navigate evolving care delivery models. A JLL survey indicated that 44% of hospital clients expect their real estate portfolio to shrink over the next 3-5 years. Intermountain welcomed its first patients…Read More

On October 5, 2023, the Office of Research Integrity (“ORI”) of the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking intended to update the Public Health Service (“PHS”) Policies on Research Misconduct, last revised in 2005 (the “Proposed Rule”). The Proposed Rule would significantly impact how research institutions handle allegations of…Read More

In the recent case of Murray v. UBS Securities LLC et al., the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that whistleblowers do not need to show retaliatory intent as part of a retaliation claim against an employer under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (“SOX”), which governs corporate financial reporting and recordkeeping. The Supreme Court reinstated a $900,000 jury…Read More

Novant Health acquired three hospitals in South Carolina from Tenet Healthcare for $2.4B, including Hilton Head Hospital, East Cooper Medical Center and Coastal Carolina Hospital. The next state considering Certificate of Need (CON) reform is Kentucky according to a recent Becker’s article. At least four bills have been introduced to change the CON law, a…Read More