Patients Recording Medical Visits: What Health Care Providers Need to Know
Taking The Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 276: Educating the Life Sciences Workforce with Wake Tech’s Leslie Isenhour
Podcast - The New Rules of Healthcare Fraud Enforcement
Hospice Insights Podcast - Hospice Audit Updates: UPICs May Pick You for a Prepayment Review
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AI's Hidden Power Grid: Data Centers, Subsea Cables, and the New Infrastructure Arms Race — The Good Bot: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, and the Law
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Taking The Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 275: Strategies for Building the Life Sciences Talent Pipeline with NIIMBL’s John Balchunas
Health+Tech - Healthcare Private Equity Conference Recap
Health+Tech - From Software to Scrutiny: Navigating FDA Inspections Under the New QMSR
Health+Tech - The Perfect Storm: Cyber Threats, Regulation and AI in Healthcare
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False Claims Act Insights - Healthcare Compensation and Referrals: Avoiding Compliance Pitfalls in Physician Deals
DOJ’s Bulk Sensitive Data Transfer Rule: Key Insights for Health Care Compliance Teams – Diagnosing Health Care
Hospice Insights Podcast - High Risk Hospices Are in the Hot Seat Across Six States
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PODCAST – 2026 To Do: HIPAA Compliance
2026 To Do: HIPAA Compliance
On May 12, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a major milestone in its approach to post-market oversight of chemicals in the food supply, finalizing a new proactive food chemical safety post-market...more
Earlier yesterday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced nationwide moratoria for new enrollments of hospice and home health providers effective May 13, 2026. Providers can access the CMS press release...more
Adam Brosius, a former pharmacy executive, was recently sentenced to 24 months in prison and ordered to pay $33 million in restitution and $27 million in forfeiture. Brosius was the director and then the president of...more
Texas AG Ken Paxton sent CVS Health a letter warning that the company’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives may violate state and federal anti-discrimination laws, potentially exposing the company to Medicaid fraud...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued two related proposals that, taken together, would significantly alter the pathways available for Medicare coverage...more
Litigators are naturally conditioned to gather as much information as possible. But in medical malpractice, the pursuit of “perfect” information is a financial trap for everyone involved....more
“What a long, strange trip it’s been.” When we launched Budding Trends years ago as a modest little blog focused on cannabis law, the idea that we’d one day spend serious time tracking potential widespread access to...more
Reforming prior authorization processes has been on the regulatory menu for a while. Both patients and providers have argued that prior authorization is a complex and burdensome process that too often results in patients...more
Last week, FDA touted its achievements in connection with implementing the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 (MoCRA) – noting that the agency had “worked tirelessly, mostly using existing resources, to...more
For most of its HIPAA enforcement history, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has engaged in a remarkably similar pattern with (allegedly) noncompliant healthcare organizations:...more
The story of federal psychedelic policy over the last few years has been, in many ways, the story of two tracks running parallel — and occasionally colliding. On one track: a growing body of clinical research, bipartisan...more
The rollercoaster ride that is the American hemp industry has been fascinating to watch (though we recognize some on the ride may use a different word). In 2018, Congress opened a door for hemp through the 2018 Farm Bill....more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Wednesday that it is temporarily pausing new enrollments for hospice and home health providers in Medicare. CMS’s move underscores the agency’s expanded approach...more
The Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) temporarily reinstated the ability of patients to receive mifepristone via mail-order after a telehealth visit following a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...more
Trending in Telehealth highlights monthly state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists, and technology companies that deliver and...more
On April 30, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued two new initiatives that build on its recent fraud and False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement efforts. ...more
One of the bigger barriers to health care providers’ ability to challenge managed care organization (MCO) behaviors is contract terms that force all disputes to arbitration. MCOs insist upon arbitration dispute resolution...more
On May 13, 2026, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“HHS OIG”) sent a letter to the Attorneys General of every state warning that the federal government will impose strict compliance...more
On Thursday, May 28, in the next installment of Rivkin Radler’s Health Law Executive Briefings, Ashley Algazi and Tim Gonzalez will present “Examining AI in Health Care, a Review of Key Strategic, Legal, and Regulatory...more
A recent healthcare-related federal court settlement serves as a reminder that job titles do not determine overtime eligibility under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In Simmons v. ViaQuest Residential Services, LLC, No....more
On April 30, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced the creation of the West Coast Health Care Fraud Strike Force (the “Strike Force”), a new multidistrict enforcement initiative targeting health care fraud...more
On April 29, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Sunshine Lake Pharma’s Langlara™ (insulin glargine-aldy) biosimilar to Sanofi’s Lantus® (insulin glargine), for the treatment of adult and pediatric...more
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has published draft regulations reforming pre-market requirement for medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices in Great Britain: the Medical Devices...more
On May 13, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a significant escalation in its federal anti-fraud efforts. In coordination with Vice President JD Vance's Anti-Fraud Task Force, CMS is...more
Oregon’s sweeping new corporate practice of medicine (“CPOM”) law, Senate Bill 951 (“SB 951”), has already faced its first major courtroom test. As discussed in our prior post, SB 951 significantly expands Oregon’s...more
