Antitrust Considerations in Long-Term Care — Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 206: Supporting Patient Care with Darra Coleman of Prisma Health
Workplace Violence in Health Care: Dissecting the Legal Landscape and Implications for Employers – Diagnosing Health Care
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 205: Novant Health’s Carolinas Expansion with Senior Vice President Jason Bernd
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 199: Bringing Awareness to Organ and Tissue Donation with Dave DeStefano of We Are Sharing Hope
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 196: Regulation Trends in Healthcare and Certificate of Need with Rebecca Thornhill of Maynard Nexsen
Hospice Insights Podcast - A Refresh: What’s New in the New OIG General Compliance Program Guidance
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 193: Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health with Dr. Jeniqua Duncan of CareSouth Carolina
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 192: Business Issues for Healthcare with Ira Bedenbaugh and Randi Branham of Elliott Davis
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 191: South Carolina Lowcountry Healthcare with Walter Bennet, MUSC Orangeburg CEO
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 188: Healthcare Valuation with Darcy Devine, Founder of Buckhead FMV
Podcast - Conversions of Public Hospitals
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 187: South Carolina Hospitals and Healthcare Industry Trends with Thornton Kirby, SCHA President
Findings from Gibbins’ Annual Healthcare Bankruptcy Report
Hospital M&A Trends & Strategic Considerations for 2024
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 176: Tax Exempt Healthcare Entities with Jim Pool, Maynard Nexsen Health Care Attorney
Healthcare Practice Lease Negotiations: Avoid Missing Out on Potential Opportunities
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 173: Improving rural health care with Dr. Kevin Bennett, the Director of the Research Center for Transforming Health and the
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The Supreme Court of the United States issued its highly anticipated ruling in a pair of cases challenging the long-standing Chevron doctrine on June 28, 2024. Foreshadowed by decisions in recent years slighting Chevron, it...more
As we recently reported, in its Final Rule banning most worker non-competes, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) previously warned of its intent to vigorously enforce its non-compete ban wherever possible, which may include...more
In an earlier report, we examined the recent decision of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in ATS Tree Services, Inc. v. FTC, in which the Court rejected the plaintiff’s request for the...more
Following the national trend toward prohibiting or limiting non-compete agreements, Louisiana Senate Bill 165 limits the length and geographical scope of non-compete agreements for both specialty and primary care physicians....more
The Louisiana Legislature recently unanimously passed Act No. 273, which limits noncompete agreements for physicians in the state. The act requires all applicable new noncompete agreements to sunset after three years for...more
The future of non-competition agreements remains volatile. Recent actions by the FTC and several states threaten to limit, or even outright ban, these agreements. Such an evolving regulatory landscape requires employers to...more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved the proposed ban on non-compete agreements. Under the new rule, existing non-competes for senior executives remain enforceable....more
News Briefs - Groups Urge Appeals Court to Revive Drug Price Negotiation Suit - Healthcare and drug industry groups urged a U.S. appeals court to revive their challenge to a law requiring manufacturers to negotiate the prices...more
On April 23, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved a long-anticipated final rule that will effectively ban the use of noncompete clauses by employers, with a few limited exceptions....more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved a final rule (the “Rule”) broadly banning all employee non-compete clauses, with limited exceptions. The Saul Ewing Labor and Employment Group prepared an alert...more
News Briefs - Medicare Proposal Would Require Hospitals to Report Emissions - Hospitals for the first time could be asked to report their greenhouse gas emissions to the federal health department. A new Medicare proposal to...more
The Allegheny County Medical Society has reported that the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bill to bar non-compete agreements in healthcare employment....more
News Briefs - Massive Cyberattack Could Spur Movement in Healthcare Industry - As the disruption caused by the cyberattack at Change Healthcare stretches beyond its tenth day, cybersecurity experts say the incident could spur...more
Valuations, and how a business reacts to them, directly impact a business’s ability to complete successful transactions. In the healthcare sector, compliance with federal and state laws against self-referral and kickbacks and...more
The Nevada legislature passed new legislation recently that essentially bans all non-compete clauses in physician contracts while severely limiting the instances in which a hospital or psychiatric hospital may employ a...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years — and this past...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights significant regulatory activity and developments occurring in January 2023, including several criminal and civil enforcement actions related to the federal...more
The Impact of the FTC’s Proposed Sweeping Ban on Non-Competes - On January 5, 2023, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed a new rule (the Proposed Rule) that would define an employer’s use of...more
On February 7, 2023, the Indiana Senate passed a bill to outright ban noncompete agreements between doctors and their healthcare provider employers, though with an amendment to remove restrictions on referral incentives....more
In MetroHealth Sys. v. Khandelwal, 2022-Ohio-77, Ohio’s Eighth District Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court’s modification of a noncompete agreement between a hospital and a physician formerly employed by the hospital....more
Benesch reviews state, federal modifications to restrictive covenant laws - In a “Year-End Review,” Benesch points out there was considerable activity in trade secret and restrictive covenant law in 2021. Some of the...more
From new fraud and abuse rules, to telehealth and tax legislation to health care privacy and private equity in the healthcare space, a lot has changed in health law over the past year. Please join us for a two-day virtual...more
Non-compete covenants in physician employment and shareholder agreements are common practice. Whether they are legally enforceable as drafted varies from state to state. Some states have broad interpretations of...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
Given the current political dynamic within Congress, the chances of the Biden Administration enacting significant, substantive health care legislation appear slim in the short-term. Thus, the Biden Administration has sought...more