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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Election 2024 Coverage: Examining the Future of Healthcare and Antitrust

Leading up to the U.S. presidential election this November, our Antitrust & Competition team will offer thoughts and insights into what antitrust enforcement will look like under the next presidential administration. While...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law

Revocation of the “Public Charge” Rule

Readers of our blog know that Haider, Alex and I have a longstanding interest in the intersection of health care law and immigration law. That’s important for our blog, especially because of the needs of the immigrant...more

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President Biden’s Executive Orders: Impact On Employee Benefits And Healthcare

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In the opening days of his administration, President Biden has signed a flurry of Executive Orders impacting multiple sectors of the U.S. economy. This article summarizes the Orders that impact employee benefits and...more

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Secret Rules and Hidden Penalties: Biden Executive Order Takes Aim at the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Limit HHS’s Use of...

Executive Orders and the Biden Administration’s promises to postpone or withdraw certain last-minute, so-called “midnight rules” promulgated by the Trump Administration are currently grabbing everyone’s attention, especially...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law

Coverage of Routine Clinical Trial Costs Under the Medicaid Program

Right before the new year, we told you about some of the Medicaid-related provisions of the COVID relief package that was recently signed into law by President Trump. One provision of that law that we thought merited a...more

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How does U.S. improve its health care if the president excuses wrongdoing?

Leave it to the extreme actions of the current White House occupant to disprove Shakespeare and the adage  that the quality of mercy cannot be strained. Some of the dozens of President Trump’s latest acts of clemency, with...more

Epstein Becker & Green

New Health Care Transparency Requirements: Will They Lower Cost and Improve Quality?

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On November 12, 2020, the Trump administration published its final rule on price transparency (the “Final Rule”) requiring affected entities to publicly release personalized information on out-of-pocket costs as well as...more

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Patients finally gaining new access to medical records and doctors’ notes

Millions of Americans may be finding that their doctors routinely refer to them with terms like SOB and BS. But patients will be better off with this knowledge, once they learn how to translate medical abbreviations....more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Will Severability Rescue the Affordable Care Act? If Not, What Comes Next?

Health care policy and business face consequential times ahead, with Election Day Nov. 3 and a challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) being heard before the Supreme Court on Nov. 10. In February 2018, two months after...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

In the midst of a crisis, Trump administration throws billions at giveaways to favored political targets

Taxpayers and lawmakers have ensured that the federal Health and Human Services agency operates with roughly $2 trillion in discretionary and mandatory funding. This means the agency can employ about 80,000 staffers, many of...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Overview of the Trump Administration’s 'America First Healthcare Vision'

On Thursday, Sept. 24, President Trump announced his long-awaited health care plan, the “America First Healthcare Vision,” aimed at replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and reshaping our nation’s health care system. The...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

The Federal Advisor - September 2020

Dear Friends, Labor Day traditionally marks the official beginning of the fall campaign season. Though the campaigns – presidential, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House – have been going strong for months, it is the start of the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Venture Capital And Private Equity Investors Take Note: Primary Care May Be The Next Behavioral Health

According to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) study reported in Health Affairs on March 24, 2020, national health care spending reached $3.81 trillion in 2019 and is projected to increase to $4.01 trillion...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

With U.S. virus response, taxpayers may need to keep demanding: Who benefits?

Cui bono? That query in Latin — Who benefits? — affirms for linguists that sketchy practices date to Ancient Rome and earlier. But who knew the phrase would be so applicable for U.S. taxpayers considering dubious aspects of...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

COVID-19: Families First Coronavirus Response Act

Key Points - In the wake of the rapidly escalating coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, President Trump signed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R.6201). The wide-ranging legislation enacts a number of...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Families First Coronavirus Response Act: Guidance for Health Care Providers and Plans Regarding COVID-19

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As communities throughout the nation and world continue to grapple with the 2019 novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic, health care providers and plans are struggling not only to maintain standard operations but also to...more

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What's New in Washington - January 2020

The 116th Congress has officially reached the halfway point as members return this month after a productive December. For the first time since Fiscal Year (FY) 2016, Congress completed all 12 appropriations bills prior to the...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

GOP lawsuit hasn’t shoved health care off a cliff — not yet. But ACA in limbo helps nobody.

Insurers feast on uncertainty the way most of us attack a holiday spread. They can relish risk because they know it can mean higher premiums and profits for their dealing with clients’ risks. This is one point to keep in mind...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

End-of-Year Spending and Health Care Extenders Package Overview

House and Senate lawmakers came to a bipartisan agreement on an end-of-year spending deal that will fund the government for FY 2020. The $1.37 trillion package includes a total of $738 billion in funding for the military and...more

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Will Price Transparency Benefit Consumers or Facilitate Antitrust Violations?

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This past June, President Trump issued an Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First (“Order”), intending to increase price and quality transparency for American...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Recent Executive Order Makes the Road to Increased Healthcare Transparency Unclear

Last week, President Trump signed an “Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First.” The order, which “seeks to enhance the ability of patients to choose the...more

King & Spalding

Trump Signs Executive Order Calling for Increased Transparency and Upfront Disclosure of Hospital Charges and Out-of-Pocket Costs

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On Monday, June 24, 2019, President Trump issued an executive order requiring HHS and other agencies to propose regulations designed to promote transparency and upfront disclosure by hospitals to patients of the charge prices...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Nonprofit hospitals hound patients with draconian debt collections

Nonprofit hospitals added almost $40 billion to their bottom lines in the last year and lavished a $3.5 million average salary on their chiefs. But their relentless grubbing for cash apparently was unsated still. The...more

White and Williams LLP

Healthcare Executive Order Suggests Changes Are Coming

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On June 24, 2019, President Trump issued the “Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First” (the Order). The Order directs several executive agencies to issue...more

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Executive Order Seeks to Improve Consumer-Driven Healthcare

On June 24, 2019, the President issued his Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First. The Executive Order directs regulators to take action to improve healthcare...more

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