On October 11, 2025, California enacted Assembly Bill No. 489, introducing new regulatory measures to address the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) in healthcare communications. The legislation...more
The Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) recent Advisory Opinion 25-09 is favorable towards physician investments in a medical device company but reaffirms OIG’s ongoing scrutiny of these arrangements. ...more
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The Calendar Year 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule (see Orrick’s analysis of the proposed rule here) contains important signals for the future of remote patient monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic...more
8/4/2025
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published proposed versions of the Calendar Year 2026 (CY 2026) Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rules on July 16, 2025,...more
The Montana Legislature recently passed an update to the state’s Uniform Health Care Information Act (the Act), which creates standards for privacy and security of health care information maintained by Montana health care...more
For some companies that make and distribute medical devices and drugs, and for group purchasing organizations (GPOs), reporting financial information to the U.S. government has become a regular part of doing business. The...more
The health care industry has utilized artificial intelligence for decades, but the recent expansion of AI’s capabilities into generative AI models is raising questions about how and to what extent to regulate the technology....more
The Texas Attorney General is once again signaling the office’s intent to enforce the state’s privacy and consumer protection laws. According to a June 2024 press release, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton “launched a major...more