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Hall Render is interested in talking with real estate lawyers in Dallas, TX! Please reach out to Andrew Dick at adick@hallrender.com with any leads. A recent report from CBRE indicated that construction input prices are up 42.5% from March 2020 to March 2022. CBRE expects output prices (for construction work) to rise similarly in the…Read More

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has given itself an extra year to review and assess skilled nursing facility proposed regulations issued in 2019. The 2019 Proposed Rule aimed to increase the ability of health care professionals to apportion resources to improve resident care by eliminating or reducing requirements that could impede quality…Read More

Last week, a number of M&A headlines made the news. SSM Health closed a large physician practice acquisition. Healthcare Realty also announced that it will joint venture (“JV”) 27 properties as part of its merger plan with HTA. Kaufman Hall noted that M&A activity is up in the health care sector. A number of other…Read More

CMS recently announced the Enhancing Oncology Model (“EOM”), which will build on the Oncology Care Model that ended on June 30, 2022. EOM is the next phase in the Biden Administration’s Cancer Moonshot initiative and will run from July 2023 through July 2028. EOM aims to improve care coordination, quality and health outcomes while holding…Read More

On June 29, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) released a notice and guidance on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and the protection of patient information relating to reproductive health care (the “Notice”). The Notice also describes example situations involving protected…Read More

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights released guidance detailing how health care providers subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) can use remote communication technologies to provide audio-only telehealth services when such communications are conducted in a manner that is consistent with the…Read More

Last week, CMS issued a proposal that would change how post-acute providers are paid for their services. The proposal drew negative feedback from trade associations. A number of prominent physician organizations issued a call to action urging payers and policy providers to increase funding and training offered to primary care providers so they can effectively…Read More

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”) signed into law on December 27, 2020, created a new Medicare provider type called a Rural Emergency Hospital (“REH”). Critical access hospitals (“CAHs”) and rural hospitals with 50 beds or fewer could transition to REH status starting January 1, 2023. On June 30, 2022, the Centers for Medicare…Read More