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Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - February 2025 #2

News Briefs - More States Taking Steps to Control P.E. in Healthcare Settings - An increasing number of states are looking to control private healthcare operations transactions, even as the Trump administration appears likely...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 8: Hospice Special Focus Program: Pumping the Brakes

In this episode, AGG Healthcare attorneys Bill Dombi and Jason Bring discuss the hospice special focus program and CMS’ announcement that it will cease implementing the program in the face of litigation filed by providers and...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Fourth Circuit Holds that Violation of CIA Can Support Reverse False Claims and Adopts Relaxed Rule 9(b) Presentment Requirement

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On February 3, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a district court’s grant of a motion to dismiss, holding in relevant part that: - Violations of a Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIA) can create an...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Cannabis and the Law

Governor Shapiro and Legislators Revive Push for Adult-Use Cannabis in Pennsylvania

Is this the year that Pennsylvania finally legalizes adult-use cannabis? While some battle-scarred skeptics remain, there is fresh optimism in the Commonwealth with both the Governor and several key legislators pushing for...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Alabama Proposal Would Ban All Psychoactive Hemp

For the hemp industry, it appears the beatings will continue until morale improves. Following the lead of a number of other states in recent years, the Alabama Legislature is set to consider a measure that would eliminate...more

McDermott Will & Emery

FDA Relaxes Critical Positions on Use of Scientific Information in Off-Label Communications

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On January 6, 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published final guidance titled “Communications From Firms to Health Care Providers Regarding Scientific Information on Unapproved Uses of Approved/Cleared Medical...more

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UK’s MHRA Grants Marketing Authorization for Chikungunya Vaccine

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On February 5, 2025 Valneva SE (“Valneva”) announced that the United Kingdom’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) granted marketing authorization for Valneva’s chikungunya vaccine, IXCHIQ. ...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

Biden Administration Proposes Beefed-Up HIPAA Security Rule… But Prognosis Uncertain

On January 6, 2025, the Biden Administration issued a new proposed rule updating the HIPAA Security Standards ( “Proposed Rule”). The original HIPAA Security Standards were issued in 2003 and updated in 2013 and require that...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

This Week From the Hill (February 16 – February 22, 2025)

Each week while Congress is in session, our Policy team delivers a key update to highlight a topical benefits, health, or retirement news item from the Hill, such as a newly introduced bill, a summary of a committee hearing,...more

Kerr Russell

The Corporate Transparency’s Act’s Impact on Medical Practices: Understanding Physicians’ Obligations Amid Recent Judicial and...

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Medical practices across the United States are grappling with new compliance obligations under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). This article addresses the CTA’s applicability to medical practices, its current legal...more

Segal McCambridge

Yay or “Neigh” to USEF’s 2025 Rule Changes?

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At USEF’s 2025 annual meeting and awards in Lexington, KY, the theme was “it’s all about the horse.” The annual meeting captured the challenges and successes the United States horse industry experienced in 2024 and what...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Dome Report: New Beginnings for the West Virginia Legislature in 2025, Issue 1

The West Virginia Legislature started its 60-day regular session on February 12, 2025 with a new Governor, new Senate President, and radically new process for considering legislation in the House. In addition, with the...more

Snell & Wilmer

NIH Cuts and Potential Impacts on Intellectual Property

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On January 27th, the Trump administration issued an order (the January 27th order) freezing all federal grants and loans, which would have cut billions of dollars of federal funding, largely to research universities....more

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California Reintroduces Legislation to Restrict Private Equity Management of Health Care Providers

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The California legislature has introduced a bill that would implement some of the same restrictions on private equity health care investments as last year’s AB 3129....more

Stotler Hayes Group, LLC

Medicare Advantage Plans Onerous Prior Authorizations Requirements & Negative Impacts on Skilled Nursing Facilities

Traditional Medicare (Parts A and B) and Medicare Advantage (Part C, including additional vision, dental, and hearing benefits) plans aim to provide comprehensive medical benefits to American Seniors and adults with...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

President Trump Issues Executive Order to Advance “Large-Scale” Reductions in Federal Workforce

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It remains unclear the extent to which the order will impact agencies like FDA. On February 11, 2025, as part of an ongoing effort to reduce the size of the federal workforce, President Trump issued an executive order titled...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Keeping Education Accessible and Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in Schools (Trump EO Tracker)

The order establishes a federal policy that prohibits the use of discretionary federal funds to support or subsidize educational institutions that require COVID-19 vaccinations for in-person attendance. It directs the...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Ohio Commercial Activity Tax: Gross receipts from dialysis services are sitused entirely to the location where the treatment is...

Gross receipts from healthcare services delivered to dialysis patients were properly sourced to Ohio where the treatments were performed. Accordingly, the patients received the benefit of the dialysis services at the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Special Report: Examining Group Health Coverage Alternatives for Small Employers

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Small employers seeking to offer robust major medical coverage to employees and their dependents face daunting price and transparency hurdles. Employers with 50 or fewer full-time equivalent employees, so-called “small...more

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SB 951 Revives Restrictive Oregon Law on Corporate Practice of Medicine

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On January 10, 2025, the Oregon Legislative Counsel introduced Senate Bill (SB) 951, aiming to modernize Oregon’s corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) doctrine. If enacted, SB 951would prohibit management services...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Make America Healthy Again Commission Aims To Combat Chronic Disease and Reform Health Policies

On February 13, 2025, at the swearing-in of Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump signed Executive Order “Establishing the President’s Make America Healthy Again...more

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President Trump Establishes the Make America Healthy Again Commission

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Yesterday, the Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Shortly after his confirmation, President Trump issued an Executive Order establishing the Make...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Federal Funding Freeze and its Effect on Health Equity Programs

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A string of executive orders and an OMB memorandum from the Trump Administration left the status of almost all federal funding in a state of limbo. In particular, funding from the National Institutes of Health and for Health...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Update: Overview of Trump’s Executive Order on Pediatric Gender Dysphoria Matters

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Navigating the Trump administration executive order impacting pediatric gender dysphoria evidence, coverage, disclosures, regulation, legislation, and enforcement as well as grants to certain medical institutions, including...more

Shipman & Goodwin LLP

Two Federal Courts Issue Injunctions Temporarily Blocking Trump’s Executive Order Restricting Access to Gender Affirming Care

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On January 28, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14187, directed at limiting gender-affirming care provided to children and teenagers under the age of nineteen, alerting that the federal government “will not fund,...more

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