On Wednesday, March 5, 2025, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge permanently blocked Arizona’s 15-week abortion ban and ruled that the former law is unconstitutional.
The 15-week ban was passed by the Arizona...more
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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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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In Arizona, civil claims against health care professionals must be accompanied by a certified statement regarding whether “expert opinion testimony is necessary to prove the health care professional’s standard of care or...more
In October 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) finalized the Transparency in Coverage Rule (“the Rule”), requiring most health insurance plans and issuers offering individual or group coverage to...more
On November 28, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) proposed sweeping changes to the rules that govern use and disclosure of protected health information (“PHI”) about patients receiving substance...more
1/23/2023
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On March 8, 2021, the Arizona Supreme Court held in Shepherd v. Costco1 that the plaintiff, Greg Shepherd, was permitted to bring a negligence claim for wrongful disclosure of medical information and that the Health Insurance...more
Due to COVID-19, there have been a significant amount of economic incentive programs and government contract opportunities to assist in stimulus and responding to the crisis. This is in addition to the typical government...more
On January 14, 2021, the Department of Justice announced that it had obtained over $2.2 billion in settlements and judgments from fraud and False Claims Act cases over the previous fiscal year. More than 80 percent of False...more