Health-e Law Episode 19: From AI to OBBBA: Healthcare Law Insights from the 2025 WHLC Leadership Summit with Amy Dilcher and Chi Huynh, WHLC Co-Chairs
Video Overview: Healthcare Trend Report - A Review of the Pharmacy and Drug Supply Chain Sectors
Concierge Practices: Understanding the Model and Its Unique Challenges
Beyond the Bylaws: The Medical Staff Show - How to Build Compliant and Effective Peer Review Processes into Your Bylaws, Part 2
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 264: 2026 Healthcare Industry Trends & Challenges with Lauren DeMoss and Matthew Roberts
Investors Prepare to Navigate FDA Crosswinds Ahead of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 263: Building NC's Innovation Ecosystem with Andrea Conner of First Flight Venture Center
Hospice Insights Podcast - Hospital to Hospice: Managing Referrals and Relationships
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 262: Breaking the “Undruggable” Barrier with Marcel Frenkel of Ten63 Therapeutics
12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 7 – Tobacco and Nicotine Regulatory Roundup — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Navigating FDA's 2025 AI Guidance: Risk-Based Framework, Public Comments, and Generative Models - The Good Bot Podcast
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 261: Transforming Lives with Advanced BioMaterials with Dr. Juliana Blum of BioAesthetics
The Down-Low on Data for Value-Based Enterprises and Their Participating Providers – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
The Corner Series Podcast: Scaling Medical Aesthetics
The Corner Series Podcast: Patent Investment Strategies
The Corner Series Podcast: Integration Over Aggregation in Oral Surgery
Early-Stage Spotlight - Kyha's Approach to Women's Health — PE Pathways Podcast
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 260: Innovation and Policy in Animal Health with Ron Phillips of the Animal Health Institute
The Corner Series Podcast: Site-of-Care Optimization
The Corner Series Podcast: Equipping PE Partners With Services for Success
A clinical lab in Anderson, South Carolina, and its founder and CEO have agreed to pay a minimum of $6.8 million to settle a federal qui tam case based on allegations for paying illegal kickbacks to physicians in exchange for...more
Key Takeaways - Reliance on Physician Orders: Clinical laboratories may generally rely on physician orders to establish medical necessity and are not required to independently reassess clinical judgment....more
Effective January 1, 2026, numerous state and local government employment laws have taken effect. Below is a non-exhaustive summary of key employment law updates for January 2026....more
This issue of McDermott Will & Schulte’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for November 2025. Regulators are signaling clear priorities: stronger enforcement, modernization of compliance standards,...more
On December 18, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published favorable Advisory Opinion 25-11, approving various discount structures, including bundled discounts and...more
As we enter 2026, the dietary supplement industry faces a rapidly evolving landscape shaped by regulatory developments, shifting consumer expectations, and heightened scrutiny from both state and federal authorities....more
On December 19, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, released a request for information (RFI) seeking input from venture capital firms on how the FDA can better...more
On January 6, 2026, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released updates to two guidance documents reflecting a move towards a more hands-off approach to digital health product regulation. Both updated guidance...more
At the end of 2024, we predicted that the healthcare mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market would pick up steam in 2025 given the combination of decreasing interest rates, a potential shift in the regulatory landscape with the...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on January 6, 2026, upheld a district court's decision to permanently enjoin and vacate guidance (Guidance) published by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) early last year....more
On January 7, 2026, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released the highly anticipated 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). At roughly 10 pages,...more
The rule adopts a restrictive framework under which anything not expressly permitted is prohibited. Its stated purpose is to ensure marijuana advertising remains medical in nature, factual, nonrecreational and not attractive...more
Following our Nov. 30, 2022 post regarding the proposed regulatory updates to the rules governing privacy of substance use disorder treatment records and our Mar. 12, 2024 post covering the Final Rule, we are posting again to...more
The FDA’s January 2026 update to its “General Wellness: Policy for Low Risk Devices” guidance materially expands the types of wearable features that may avoid medical device regulation. Signaling a more flexible regulatory...more
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations require updates to the Notice of Privacy Practices that health plan sponsors furnish to plan participants and health care providers furnish to...more
During a flurry of end-of-year 2025 bill signings, Governor Kathy Hochul approved A5480C/S4914B, amending New York’s Shield Law (Shield Law) – a 2023 law intended to protect patients who receive and health care professionals...more
With the February 16, 2026, compliance deadline rapidly approaching, health care providers that provide substance use disorder (SUD) treatment reimbursed by federal health care programs, including Medicaid, must ensure their...more
Private capital is poised to remain a driving force in healthcare and life sciences, even as the sector navigates a more complex and competitive environment. After a record-setting surge in 2024 — when global healthcare...more
Our Drug Pricing and Market Access team tracks recent developments in healthcare reform, the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, the 340B Program, Medicare, and state law....more
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on December 9, 2025 reversed and remanded a decision from the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas that had vacated a 2023 federal regulation that threatened to...more
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) ended all active Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding opportunities. (see NIH’s Notice NOT-OD-26-006)....more
Yesterday afternoon (January 8, 2026), the Minnesota Department of Human Services (“DHS”) alerted providers that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) directed Minnesota to freeze new provider enrollments in...more
On December 19, the governor of New York enacted a law amending the insurance law and the public health law regarding the use of virtual credit cards by insurers and certain health care plans....more
On December 29, 2025, Chief Judge Lance Walker of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine granted the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction in American Hospital Association v. Kennedy. The court enjoined...more
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced policy shifts that ease the path to market for certain digital health technologies, including AI- and generative AI-enabled clinical decision support software (CDS) and consumer...more
