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Welcome to Foley’s new health care MarketTrends newsletter. Each edition, we will focus on a different aspect of health care and highlight key trends in the industry. In...more
A new wave of change is poised to disrupt the way health care is delivered in the United States. This time around, the disruption is coming not from lawmakers or the president, who have struggled to repeal or improve upon...more
1/30/2019
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Department of Veterans Affairs ,
Drug Pricing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Internet of Things ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare Advantage ,
Popular ,
Request For Information ,
Stark Law ,
Telehealth
As telemedicine continues to see significant traction, health care organizations are working to implement telemedicine programs and create technology infrastructures all while working within the current legislative...more
Providers and suppliers who have been assessed overpayments for Medicare services are entitled, by statute, to a stay of recoupment while the provider or supplier’s appeal is pending – but only at the first two levels of...more
7/19/2018
/ Administrative Appeals ,
Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Due Process ,
Health Care Providers ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Provider Agreements ,
Overpayment ,
Physician Medicare Reimbursements ,
Recoupment ,
ZPIC
At the 11th Annual Investment and M&A Opportunities in Healthcare conference in Nashville on June 6th, 2018, a panel session moderated by Chris Donovan, partner in Foley’s Health Care Practice Group, addressed the topic of...more
Despite some initial difficulty in gaining momentum, the use of value-based payment methodologies will likely increase across all provider niches. This change is partly a function of cost savings driven by margin compression...more
In early December, leading experts in digital health and telemedicine came together at the Digital Health Care Investors Summit hosted by Foley & Lardner LLP and Deloitte. The Summit explored innovations in digital health...more
On August 15, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule (Proposed Rule) that, if finalized, would (1) reduce the number of Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in which there is...more
A distinguished panel of providers, consultants and IT firms convened on Tuesday, June 21st in New York at the Foley and Lardner LLP offices to share a discussion focused on the convergence of IT spend and new value based...more
As payment reforms, such as bundled payments and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), drive further provider collaboration to achieve lower costs with enhanced outcomes, post- acute providers, especially assisted living...more
Regulations proposed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (“DPH”) may significantly change the procedure for state approval of nursing home sales and closures. Following public scrutiny around state inspection...more
9/4/2015
/ Change in Ownership ,
Comment Period ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Inspections ,
Licensing Rules ,
Long Term Care Facilities ,
Nursing Homes ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Public Health ,
Public Hearing ,
Real Estate Transfers ,
Sales ,
Skilled Nursing Facility
Whether in an auction or proprietary transaction, risk allocation has typically been a function of indemnities tied to reps and warranties and the type of credit supporting the type of supporting credit. Holdbacks, earnouts,...more
7/16/2015
/ Asset Deals ,
Auction ,
Buyers ,
Exit Strategies ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Indemnification ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Private Equity ,
Recoupment ,
Risk Allocation ,
Risk Management ,
Sellers ,
Stark Law ,
Underwriting ,
Warranty Insurance
The juncture of the increasing drive to lower health care costs, consumer preferences for at home care or care in more residential environments, and the ability to deliver care as needed in portable and flexible ways, all...more
Solutions and opportunities may be on the horizon for post-acute providers (“PAPs”) and hospitals participating (or thinking of participating) in ACOs that have reservations about taking on additional downside cost risk...more
With a keynote speech by Tenet Vice Chair Keith Pitts, and three panel discussions lead by investor representatives from Thomas Lee Partners, Riverside Partners, Nautic, and Welch Carson as well as provider and payer speakers...more
Much has been written about hospital consolidation premised upon the search for efficiencies driven by scale and integration as reflected in the white hot hospital merger market over the last several years. While no doubt...more