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CVS Health announced plans to buy Oak Street Health for $9.5 billion in cash. Oak Street Health is a large primary care provider with 160 locations. CVS plans to grow the Oak Street business to 300 locations by 2026. Tower Health is planning to sell 17 urgent care centers in the coming months. The sale…Read More

*Updated on April 23, 2024. The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has announced their intent to vote on a final rule that would ban most employers from entering into or enforcing noncompetes against workers and would require employers to rescind existing non-competes. The vote is planned during a special Open Commission Meeting on Tuesday, April 23…Read More

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) recently announced that it coordinated with law enforcement partners in launching a multi-state enforcement action dedicated to uncovering a massive fraudulent nursing diploma scheme. Referred to as Operation Nightingale, it has exposed an alleged scheme involving the sale of fake and fraudulent…Read More

On January 3, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) released an updated Mifepristone Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (the “Mifepristone REMS Program”), which reverses the requirement that the drug be dispensed directly to a patient by certified prescriber in a clinic or a medical office (the “in-person dispensing requirement”). The updated Mifepristone REMS…Read More

The Biden administration announced plans to end the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency (“PHE”) on May 11, 2023. In the wake of this announcement, the Kaiser Family Foundation published a report on the repercussions of ending the PHE. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 will extend certain PHE-related coverage of telehealth, but other…Read More

*Revised on August 9, 2023 On Monday, August 7, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued proposed regulations for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (“PWFA”), which will be found here on August 11. Once published, public comment is invited for 60 days. While the regulations could change before being finalized, employers are encouraged to begin…Read More

The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (“HSR Act”), as amended, requires all persons contemplating certain mergers or acquisitions that meet or exceed the jurisdictional thresholds (shown below) to file a premerger notification (an “HSR Filing”) with the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) Premerger Notification Office and Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Antitrust Division and to wait…Read More