On May 7, 2025, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas upheld the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) decision to remove two tirzepatide injection medications from the FDA’s drug shortage list. This...more
6/13/2025
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Partners Julia Boyd, Marshall Jackson, Jr., and Gregory Metz explored the increasing investment activity at the intersection of education and healthcare during a recent panel that featured Dina Said Dwyer, founder of Eden...more
On March 7, 2025, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it would begin investigating four medical schools and hospitals pursuant to President Donald Trump’s...more
3/12/2025
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Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists, and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more
11/19/2024
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The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) further extended flexibilities that allow providers to prescribe controlled substances via telemedicine without first performing an in-person visit. The flexibilities were...more
11/19/2024
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KEY UPDATE -
Illinois enacted HB 5087, which significantly limits physical therapists’ ability to provide telehealth services to patients in the state. As enacted, these new provisions become effective on January 1, 2025....more
On October 3, 2024, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revised its shortage categorization of tirzepatide, a glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) medication, marking the shortage as “resolved” for all presentations of the...more
10/10/2024
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Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more
1/23/2024
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Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more
12/22/2023
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Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more
11/6/2023
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The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) have further extended flexibilities that allow providers to prescribe controlled substances...more
10/9/2023
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During this session, CEOs and founders of transformative digital-health companies shared their experiences and offered thoughts on today’s market and where care delivery is heading next...more
In this session, panelists provided an in-depth look at focus and sub-focus areas within the behavioral health industry. Our panel also discussed supply and demand imbalances, merger and acquisition (M&A) transaction...more
On April 20, 2023, the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) released a new toolkit designed to help analyze telehealth claims to assess federal healthcare program...more
On December 6, 2016, the House passed the Expanding Capacity for Health Outcomes Act (S. 2873) (the ECHO Act), which was unanimously passed by the Senate on November 29, 2016. The ECHO Act seeks to expand the use of health...more
On December 6, 2016, the US House of Representatives passed the Expanding Capacity for Health Outcomes Act (S. 2873) (the ECHO Act), which was unanimously passed by the US Senate on November 29, 2016. The ECHO Act seeks to...more