Welcome to the sixth issue of Health Headlines, a newsletter created by lawyers in our Healthcare practice....more
8/4/2025
/ Abortion ,
Administrative Procedure Act ,
Affordable Care Act ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Final Rules ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act (FDAAA) ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Prescription Drugs ,
State Attorneys General ,
TRICARE
The Trump administration recently announced the renewal of a new cross-agency collaboration between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the form of the DOJ-HHS False Claims...more
7/22/2025
/ Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Enforcement Priorities ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Kickbacks ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Advantage ,
Trump Administration ,
Whistleblowers ,
Working Groups
Welcome to the seventh issue of Health Headlines, a newsletter created by lawyers in our Healthcare practice.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 383 into law, placing new restrictions on pharmacy benefit...more
7/1/2025
/ Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Data Breach ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Drug Pricing ,
Healthcare ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Advantage ,
New Legislation ,
OIG ,
Pharmacies ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Proposed Legislation ,
State and Local Government
On May 14, 2025, Pennsylvania State Sen. Tim Kearney and State Rep. Lisa Borowski introduced legislation addressing private equity and corporate interests in healthcare. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is touting the companion...more
5/30/2025
/ Abortion ,
Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Corporate Practice of Medicine ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Hospitals ,
Insurance Industry ,
Insurance Litigation ,
Popular ,
Private Equity ,
Proposed Legislation
Welcome to the third issue of Health Headlines, a newsletter created by lawyers in our Healthcare practice....more
3/30/2025
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Annual Reports ,
Caremark claim ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
CVS ,
Drug Pricing ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Price Transparency ,
Proposed Rules ,
Trump Administration
On April 26, 2024, almost a year after issuing a notice of proposed rulemaking to modify the Privacy Rule, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) finalized the HIPAA Privacy Rule to...more
6/19/2024
/ Business Associates ,
Covered Entities ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ,
Final Rules ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Privacy Rule ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
Popular ,
Reproductive Healthcare Issues
On April 17, 2023, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to modify the Standards for Privacy for Individually Identifiable...more
8/11/2023
/ Biden Administration ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
EMTALA ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Privacy Rule ,
HITECH Act ,
NPRM ,
OCR ,
PHI ,
Reproductive Healthcare Issues ,
Subpoenas ,
Warrants
The US Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization — which overturned Roe v. Wade and nearly 50 years of a federal constitutional right to abortion — has had a tectonic impact. Less than...more
4/12/2023
/ Abortion ,
Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ,
FDA Approval ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Injunctive Relief ,
Judicial Intervention ,
Patient Access ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Regulatory Authority ,
Regulatory Standards ,
Reproductive Healthcare Issues ,
Stays
On February 14, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a report identifying three models that the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI)...more