Fresenius continues business consolidation with sale of fertility business for $545M -
A consortium consisting of KKR portfolio company IVI RMA and Spanish PE firm GED Capital agreed to pay €500 million for Eugin Group,...more
Fresenius hiring Ascension Capital exec to head care delivery -
The appointment of Craig Cordola as CEO of the dialysis company’s care delivery segment takes effect Jan. 1. He was at Ascension Capital for the past six...more
11/14/2023
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Valuations, and how a business reacts to them, directly impact a business’s ability to complete successful transactions. In the healthcare sector, compliance with federal and state laws against self-referral and kickbacks and...more
6/23/2023
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MedPAC recommends no additional increase in payments for dialysis in 2024 -
MedPAC’s report on outpatient dialysis services recommends Congress not increase Medicare payments for dialysis services next year beyond the...more
5/9/2023
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Earlier this year in late February, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced proposed rules attempting to change the rules for tele-prescribing controlled drugs that were permitted during the COVID-19 Public Health...more
5/5/2023
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Correction to our January 31, 2023 newsletter article, “Dialysis Provider Satellite Healthcare Reports Data Breach Affecting Nearly 100k Patients”:
Media Statement, Satellite Healthcare -
In January 2023, Satellite...more
Benesch: Changes to state laws mean IL employers should review their employment practices -
In IL, legislation affecting workplaces went into effect at the beginning of the year, including:
..The minimum wage was...more
Federal omnibus spending bill rolls back some Medicare payment cuts scheduled for 2023, 2024 -
Buried within the $1.7-trillion spending package signed by the President on Dec. 29 was partial relief for a planned 4.5% cut...more
1/16/2023
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Physician Medicare Reimbursements ,
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Benesch: DOL proposed rule aims to clarify independent contractor classification -
The Department of Labor (DOL) proposes changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act to clarify the difference between an independent contractor...more
Benesch outlines five states with data protection laws coming into effect in 2023 -
Next year, statutes for data security and data privacy will go into effect in CA and VA on Jan. 1, while laws in CO and CT will be...more
Medtronic, DaVita forming kidney tech company to develop dialysis delivery systems -
The healthtech and the dialysis provider will be 50-50 partners in the venture, which will include the entirety of Medtronic’s renal...more
In 2020, Americans locked down and logged on to stay connected to their providers and even to receive new health care services through telehealth.
A recent report by FAIR Health found that telehealth claims rose nearly...more
On December 21, 2020, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CRA), which combines a $1.4 trillion omnibus government spending bill with a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package. The massive bill, which was...more
Favorable news for Ohio health care providers during this difficult COVID pandemic: on September 14, 2020, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed the Good Samaritan Expansion Bill, House Bill 606, into law. The law provides...more
Due to the high risk for infection, serious illness and death in long term care (“LTC”) facilities, CMS is amending the current infection control requirements for LTC facilities by adding obligation to “test all of its...more
Acting under its broad authority granted under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), in an April 21, 2020 release the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced an even...more
5/14/2020
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On March 30, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced an additional expansion of telehealth services, widening provider access to its 62 million Medicare beneficiaries. It also strongly...more
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) outbreak has reached the international pandemic status. As of March 13, 2020, there are 132,758 confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally and 1,629 confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationally...more
3/16/2020
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