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Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. Last week, North Carolina legislators proposed a bill that would alter the state’s Certificate of Need (“CON”) program. If passed, the bill would make it easier for certain providers to open new health care…Read More

A recent decision from the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted employers some modest flexibility in conducting and relying on background checks for potential new hires covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”). The court made two key rulings: Employers have no obligation under the FCRA to provide job applicants with the opportunity…Read More

On May 23, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that significantly impacts a litigant’s right to compel arbitration and the circumstances that may result in a decision that a litigant has waived its right to compel arbitration. The Case In Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., an hourly employee at a fast food franchise signed…Read More

The Colorado legislature recently passed HB 22-1317, which dramatically revises Colorado’s statute governing covenants not to compete, C.R.S. § 8-2-113. The bill is expected to be signed by Governor Polis in the near future and take effect on August 10, 2022. Roughly half of the text in the noncompete law will be new, and significant…Read More

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. Legislators and government agencies are looking for ways to deliver care in new settings. Last week, three U.S. Senators proposed a bill that would create a pilot program that would explore funding the cost…Read More

On May 10, 2022, CMS published its proposed revisions to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System for 2023. CMS proposed two changes that would affect reimbursement for graduate medical education (“GME”) programs at teaching hospitals. First, CMS proposed to update the way that it calculates direct GME (“DGME”) payments for fellows in some training programs, responding…Read More

In March of this year, the Washington State Legislature passed Substitute House Bill 1616, significantly expanding the state’s charity care law. All acute care hospitals licensed under RCW 70.41 and all psychiatric hospitals licensed under RCW 71.12 are subject to Washington State’s charity care law and are required to have a charity care policy in…Read More

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. Last week a number of legislative initiatives made the news. A group of U.S. senators are pushing for additional HUD funding to create more affordable senior housing units. At the state level, South Carolina’s…Read More

As deal work in the health care industry continues at a feverish pace and timelines are condensed, due diligence can often suffer and be overlooked in favor of speed. This can lead to key operational or legal issues getting missed, unintended liabilities on the back end for the Buyer or a more difficult integration process….Read More