News Briefs - HHS Seeks to Move Quickly on AI Use in Healthcare Sector - Leaders at the Department of Health and Human Services are bullish on artificial intelligence to help patients manage health conditions and make the...more
News Briefs - Medicare to Cut Some Specialty Doctor Pay by 2.5% in 2026 -The Trump administration finalized a controversial plan to reevaluate how Medicare calculates doctor payments that will result in lower rates for...more
11/6/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biosimilars ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Data Security ,
Digital Health ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
H-1B ,
Health Care Providers ,
Medicare ,
Physicians ,
Telehealth
News Briefs - Amid Shutdown, Telehealth Coverage Flexibilities Expired Lawmakers missed a deadline to extend telehealth flexibilities in Medicare, disrupting virtual care reimbursement and access for beneficiaries across the...more
News Briefs - Providers Could Lose $32B in Revenue From Expiring ACA Subsidies - President Donald Trump's plan to let the Affordable Care Act's premium tax credits expire will significantly cost healthcare providers,...more
10/8/2025
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Foreign Workers ,
H-1B ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Medical Devices ,
Medicare ,
Nursing Homes ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Physicians ,
Tariffs ,
Visas
News Briefs - Report Finds Many Hospitals Have Stopped Posting Prices - Many hospitals stopped posting actual dollar-and-cents pricing under healthcare price transparency regulations despite a renewed push to make prices...more
9/26/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Health Insurance ,
Health Technology ,
Healthcare ,
Hospitals ,
Long Term Care Facilities ,
Nursing Homes ,
Physicians ,
Price Transparency ,
Public Health ,
Telehealth
News Briefs - Study Raises Concerns Around Doctors Becoming Too Reliant on AI - Artificial intelligence is beginning to help doctors screen patients for several routine diseases. But a new study raises concerns about whether...more
9/4/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Continuing Care Retirement Communities ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Hospice ,
Hospitals ,
Medicaid ,
Physicians ,
Rural Health Care Providers ,
Telemedicine
News Briefs - Physician Productivity Rising, But Reimbursement Isn't -Physicians are working more than ever, but reimbursement isn't rising in tandem. It's a worrying mismatch that could translate into access problems for...more
8/25/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Executive Orders ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Nursing Homes ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Physicians ,
Ransomware ,
Reimbursements ,
Telehealth
News Briefs - Over 75% of Health Organizations Targeted by Ransomware Over Year - More than three-quarters of healthcare survey respondents said their organizations were targeted by ransomware in the past 12 months, and 53...more
8/20/2025
/ Cybersecurity ,
Drug Pricing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospitals ,
Non-Profit Hospitals ,
Nursing Homes ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Ransomware ,
Telehealth ,
Trump Administration
News Briefs - Senators Seek Enforcement of No Surprises Act Good-Faith Estimate - The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is asking Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other...more
8/6/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Data Breach ,
Drug Pricing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Long Term Care Facilities ,
Mergers ,
No Surprises Act (NSA) ,
Pharmacies ,
Physicians ,
Venture Capital
News Briefs - Telehealth Groups Ask DEA for Remote Controlled Substances Plan - More than 200 telehealth and provider organizations are asking the Trump administration to hammer out regulation governing telehealth...more
News Briefs - Nonprofit Developing Standards for AI in Healthcare - Health Level Seven International (HL7), a global standards development body, is diving into artificial intelligence to create frameworks and standards for...more
News Briefs - Tariffs May Impact Hospice Mergers and Acquisitions Activity - Tariffs being implemented by the Trump administration could have a dampening effect on an already slumping hospice mergers and acquisitions market....more
On June 24, 2025, the Supreme Court of Georgia vacated the Georgia Court of Appeals’ decision refusing to apply Georgia’s $350,000 damages cap to reduce a $7.2 million award of wrongful death damages in a medical malpractice...more
News Briefs - Visa Restrictions Impacting Hospitals Awaiting Foreign Residents - Some hospitals in the U.S. are without essential staff because international doctors who were set to start their medical training were delayed...more
7/15/2025
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Foreign Workers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Hospitals ,
Physicians ,
Trump Administration ,
Visas
News Briefs - Federal Judge Rejects Nursing Home RN Staffing Mandate - A federal judge has struck down the federal nursing home staffing mandate's demands that a registered nurse be on duty 24/7 every day of the year, as well...more
6/27/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Hospitals ,
Long Term Care Facilities ,
New Legislation ,
Nursing Homes ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Telehealth
News Briefs - Healthcare Workforce Bounces Back, But Recovery Uneven -The U.S. healthcare workforce has bounced back from the massive job losses of early 2020, with employment now matching pre-pandemic projections, according...more
News Briefs - Appeals Court Set to Rehear No Surprises Case - An appeals court is set to rehear a case from providers trying to restrict what factors insurers consider in calculating a key metric that arbiters use to...more
News Briefs - Healthcare M&A Expected to Rebound, Post-Acute Care to See Most - Economic uncertainties may have put a damper on healthcare M&A during the first quarter of the year, but many still expect a rebound as 2025...more
6/13/2025
/ Acquisitions ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospitals ,
Medicaid ,
Medical Devices ,
Mergers ,
Pharmacies ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Physicians ,
Regulatory Requirements
News Briefs - Judge Rules Against Administration's HHS Reorg, Reductions - California District Judge Susan Illston has granted a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration's recent reductions in force across...more
AGG’s Government Investigations Team Insights provides periodic updates covering legal and regulatory topics. Our team, which includes former federal prosecutors, SEC enforcement attorneys, and federal agency attorneys, has...more
News Briefs - States, D.C., File Lawsuit to Block Trump's HHS Restructuring - A coalition of 20 attorneys general is suing to block what they say is the Trump administration's "dangerous dismantling" of the federal health...more
5/19/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Technology ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Hospitals ,
Medicaid ,
Medical Devices ,
New Legislation ,
Nursing Homes ,
Physicians ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Trump Administration
On April 14, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed the conviction of the owner of a durable medical equipment (“DME”) distributor, ruling that there was insufficient evidence to support a...more
5/13/2025
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Appeals ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Marketing ,
Medical Devices ,
Medicare ,
Physicians ,
Whistleblowers
News Briefs - Hospitals Lose Supreme Court HHS Payment Case - The U.S. Supreme Court sided with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a lawsuit brought by more than 200 hospitals that serve low-income...more
5/9/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Costs ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Hospitals ,
Medicare ,
Physicians ,
Trump Administration
News Briefs - March Healthcare Data Breaches Declined 46% to Lowest Since 2022 - Healthcare data breaches appear to be on the decline for now. The HIPAA Journal reported just 58 breaches in March -- the lowest total for the...more
5/5/2025
/ Acquisitions ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Breach ,
Digital Health ,
Drug Pricing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Hospitals ,
Nursing Homes ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Private Equity
News Briefs - High Court to Hear Case Challenging ACA Free Preventive Care - The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case challenging a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires private insurers to cover...more
4/28/2025
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare Costs ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Hospitals ,
Nursing Homes ,
Prescription Drugs ,
SCOTUS