On March 4, 2025, a federal judge in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction to an executive order restricting access to gender-affirming care for individuals under the age of nineteen (the Executive Order)....more
3/6/2025
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On January 28, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order restricting access to gender affirming care for individuals under the age of nineteen (the Executive Order). Within two weeks of its issuance, two federal courts...more
During the COVID-19 pandemic, both federal and state governments enacted a host of laws and implemented flexibilities to ensure health care providers, hospitals, and health systems could move traditional brick-and-mortar care...more
12/19/2024
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As the impact of artificial intelligence on various sectors of the U.S. economy grew in 2023, so did the involvement of regulators and policymakers. One of the most recent — and substantive — regulatory standards is the...more
On Thursday, November 4, 2021, contemporaneous with the announcement of the new Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) requiring COVID-19 vaccination or testing for...more
In 2014, Las Vegas urologist, Dr. Michael Kaplan, was convicted by a federal jury for reusing single-use plastic needle guides during prostate biopsies. He was convicted of conspiracy to commit adulteration in violation of...more
The Physician Self-Referral Law, also known as the Stark law, prohibits a physician from referring federal health care program patients for “designated health services” to an entity in which the physician (or an immediate...more
8/8/2016
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The Patient Protection and the Affordable Health Care Act (“ACA”) is designed to reduce the cost of health care and to improve quality of care. To achieve these goals, the ACA relies, in part, on Accountable Care...more