News Briefs - Senators Seek Enforcement of No Surprises Act Good-Faith Estimate - The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions is asking Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other...more
8/6/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Data Breach ,
Drug Pricing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Long Term Care Facilities ,
Mergers ,
No Surprises Act (NSA) ,
Pharmacies ,
Physicians ,
Venture Capital
News Briefs - Telehealth Groups Ask DEA for Remote Controlled Substances Plan - More than 200 telehealth and provider organizations are asking the Trump administration to hammer out regulation governing telehealth...more
News Briefs - Nonprofit Developing Standards for AI in Healthcare - Health Level Seven International (HL7), a global standards development body, is diving into artificial intelligence to create frameworks and standards for...more
News Briefs - Tariffs May Impact Hospice Mergers and Acquisitions Activity - Tariffs being implemented by the Trump administration could have a dampening effect on an already slumping hospice mergers and acquisitions market....more
On June 24, 2025, the Supreme Court of Georgia vacated the Georgia Court of Appeals’ decision refusing to apply Georgia’s $350,000 damages cap to reduce a $7.2 million award of wrongful death damages in a medical malpractice...more
News Briefs - Visa Restrictions Impacting Hospitals Awaiting Foreign Residents - Some hospitals in the U.S. are without essential staff because international doctors who were set to start their medical training were delayed...more
7/15/2025
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Foreign Workers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Hospitals ,
Physicians ,
Trump Administration ,
Visas
News Briefs - Federal Judge Rejects Nursing Home RN Staffing Mandate - A federal judge has struck down the federal nursing home staffing mandate's demands that a registered nurse be on duty 24/7 every day of the year, as well...more
6/27/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Hospitals ,
Long Term Care Facilities ,
New Legislation ,
Nursing Homes ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Telehealth
News Briefs - Healthcare Workforce Bounces Back, But Recovery Uneven -The U.S. healthcare workforce has bounced back from the massive job losses of early 2020, with employment now matching pre-pandemic projections, according...more
News Briefs - Appeals Court Set to Rehear No Surprises Case - An appeals court is set to rehear a case from providers trying to restrict what factors insurers consider in calculating a key metric that arbiters use to...more
News Briefs - Healthcare M&A Expected to Rebound, Post-Acute Care to See Most - Economic uncertainties may have put a damper on healthcare M&A during the first quarter of the year, but many still expect a rebound as 2025...more
6/13/2025
/ Acquisitions ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hospitals ,
Medicaid ,
Medical Devices ,
Mergers ,
Pharmacies ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Physicians ,
Regulatory Requirements
News Briefs - Judge Rules Against Administration's HHS Reorg, Reductions - California District Judge Susan Illston has granted a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration's recent reductions in force across...more
AGG’s Government Investigations Team Insights provides periodic updates covering legal and regulatory topics. Our team, which includes former federal prosecutors, SEC enforcement attorneys, and federal agency attorneys, has...more
News Briefs - States, D.C., File Lawsuit to Block Trump's HHS Restructuring - A coalition of 20 attorneys general is suing to block what they say is the Trump administration's "dangerous dismantling" of the federal health...more
5/19/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Technology ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Hospitals ,
Medicaid ,
Medical Devices ,
New Legislation ,
Nursing Homes ,
Physicians ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Trump Administration
On April 14, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed the conviction of the owner of a durable medical equipment (“DME”) distributor, ruling that there was insufficient evidence to support a...more
5/13/2025
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Appeals ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Marketing ,
Medical Devices ,
Medicare ,
Physicians ,
Whistleblowers
News Briefs - Hospitals Lose Supreme Court HHS Payment Case - The U.S. Supreme Court sided with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a lawsuit brought by more than 200 hospitals that serve low-income...more
5/9/2025
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Costs ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Hospitals ,
Medicare ,
Physicians ,
Trump Administration
News Briefs - March Healthcare Data Breaches Declined 46% to Lowest Since 2022 - Healthcare data breaches appear to be on the decline for now. The HIPAA Journal reported just 58 breaches in March -- the lowest total for the...more
5/5/2025
/ Acquisitions ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Breach ,
Digital Health ,
Drug Pricing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Hospitals ,
Nursing Homes ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Private Equity
News Briefs - High Court to Hear Case Challenging ACA Free Preventive Care - The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case challenging a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires private insurers to cover...more
4/28/2025
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare Costs ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Hospitals ,
Nursing Homes ,
Prescription Drugs ,
SCOTUS
In a potential watershed decision issued on February 26, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled, in U.S. ex rel. Taylor v. Healthcare Associates of Texas, that the civil penalties...more
News Briefs - Hospitals, Medical Device Makers Concerned Over Tariff Impact - A week after declaring "Liberation Day" and levying hefty tariffs on most of the country’s trading partners, President Donald Trump reversed...more
4/21/2025
/ Acquisitions ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Digital Health ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospice ,
Hospitals ,
Medical Devices ,
Mergers ,
Nursing Homes ,
Tariffs ,
Trump Administration
News Briefs - Judge Blocks Trump from Cutting Billions in State Health Funding - A federal judge said she will grant a request from 23 states to issue an emergency block on the federal government's rescindment of billions in...more
4/16/2025
/ Cybersecurity ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Hospitals ,
Medical Devices ,
Nursing Homes ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Public Health ,
Trump Administration
News Briefs - Hospital, Device Makers Seeking Exemptions on Tariffs - Medical device makers, hospitals, and other key health industries are pressing to gain exemptions under the Trump administration's new tariff regime with...more
News Briefs - Nationwide Hospitals Warned of Potential Terror Threat - The American Hospital Association and the nonprofit Health-ISAC (Information Sharing and Analysis Center) are warning of a potential terrorist threat...more
News Briefs - Congress Extends Telehealth Flexibilities for Another Six Months - Pandemic-related telehealth flexibilities set to expire March 31 have recently been extended for another six months as federal lawmakers approve...more
3/24/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
CMMI ,
Cybersecurity ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Hospitals ,
Medicare ,
Nurses ,
Opioid ,
Patient Safety ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Supply Chain ,
Telehealth
News Briefs - Analysts Predict Increase in 2025 P.E. Healthcare Dealmaking - Following a steady, but modest, year of private equity dealmaking in healthcare, 2025 could see higher levels of activity as market conditions...more
3/17/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Cybersecurity ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Long Term Care Facilities ,
Medicare ,
Mergers ,
Nursing Homes ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Physician Fee Schedule ,
Physicians ,
Private Equity
News Briefs - Trump Signs Executive Order to Improve Health Price Transparency - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to improve price transparency on healthcare costs by directing federal agencies to...more
3/11/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Executive Orders ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Hospitals ,
Medicare ,
Physicians ,
Price Transparency ,
Rural Health Care Providers ,
Telehealth