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The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, V 2, Issue 8, July 2025

Welcome to our eighth issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we look at the rural health "slush fund" included in the Federal budget bill, the effect of Medicaid...more

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Hospital and Health Systems Reimbursement Check July 2025

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In the early days of the second Trump Administration, several federal funding agencies announced caps to indirect cost (“IDC”) rates for federally funded research awards. In many cases, these caps would substantially reduce...more

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First Steps in Implementing the Trump Administration’s Price Transparency Agenda

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Recently, the Trump administration took steps toward implementing one of its major priorities: improving price transparency. As discussed in a previous Regs & Eggs blog post, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) on...more

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Administration Issues Cross-Agency Guidance Targeting Health Care Pricing and Focusing on Hospitals and Health Plans

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On May 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Treasury and Department of Labor (the “Agencies”) announced new steps intended to “strengthen healthcare price transparency.” ...more

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Healthcare Authority Newsletter - March 2025 #1

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

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Healthcare Price Transparency Executive Order Mandates Enforcement

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On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order aimed at promoting healthcare price transparency (the 2025 Executive Order).1 The 2025 Executive Order mandates that certain federal departments must...more

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Healthcare Consolidation and Private Equity: Public Input on Antitrust Healthcare Regulations

The Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (together the Agencies) launched a cross-government agency request for information...more

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Regulation of AI in Healthcare Utilization Management and Prior Authorization Increases

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Over the past two years, federal and state government agencies have moved to regulate the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare setting, including in the utilization management (UM) and prior...more

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Regs, Regs and More Regs: The Biden Administration Releases Spring 2024 Unified Agenda

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We are in the midst of a storm of regulations that are being released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the Calendar Year (CY) 2025...more

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Fast Five: Important Law and Policy Updates for US Health Care Transactions

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With the end of the first quarter of 2024, we highlight five developments, changes, or challenges that health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, physician practices, health insurers, and other health care providers,...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: April 28, 2023

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Congress was in session, and it was a busy healthcare week at the committee level, with six hearings focused specifically on health issues. On the House floor, Republicans passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act—a bill that raises...more

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Metrics in the ER: Impact on Healthcare Delivery and the Law

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Metrics. What are they? And, in the world of litigation, are they good, bad, or ugly? For my fellow Gen-X’ers, the word “metric” calls to mind an ambitious, but unsuccessful, national effort that included cartoons and...more

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340B Update: District Court Rejects 2022 Payment Methodology for 340B Hospitals Following Supreme Court Win

We follow up on our previous blog post concerning the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in favor of 340B hospitals. The Supreme Court previously held that “absent a survey of hospitals’ acquisition costs, HHS may not vary...more

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The Saga of the No Surprises Act Continues to be … Surprising

We previously noted that the regulations implementing the No Surprises Act (“NSA”) appeared to be inconsistent with the NSA because they seemed to establish the qualifying payment amount (“QPA”) as the appropriate payment...more

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HHS Proposes Rule Strengthening Section 1557 Protections Against Nondiscrimination in Health Activities

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​​​​​​​On Aug. 4, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its proposed rule, Nondiscrimination in Health Care and Activities (Proposed Rule), to revise its regulations pertaining to Section 1557 of the...more

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Supreme Court Decides in Favor of 340B Hospitals Regarding Medicare Reimbursement Methodology

On June 15, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of “340B” hospitals in a notable statutory interpretation case concerning how the federal Medicare program reimburses hospitals for prescription drugs. The...more

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CMS Framework for Health Equity: An Opportunity for Client Advocacy

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of Minority Health has published its comprehensive CMS Framework for Health Equity 2022–2032 (Framework). CMS’s Framework arose in response to the Biden...more

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The No Surprises Act: New and Surprising Challenges for Clinical Laboratories

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On July 13, 2021, the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury, and the Office of Personnel Management (collectively, “Departments”) published their highly anticipated interim final rule (“First...more

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Healthcare News: Biden Administration Aims to Strengthen Competition Through Issuance of Sweeping Executive Order

President Biden issued Executive Order 14036 on July 9, 2021, calling for a “whole-of-government approach” to promote competition across many industries, including healthcare. The order establishes a White House Competition...more

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Lawmakers Raise Compliance Concerns Over Hospital Price Transparency Rules, Request Increased Enforcement

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On April 13, 2021, four key lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives wrote to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) expressing concern over reports of non-compliance with hospital price transparency...more

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Biden extends special sign-up period for Obamacare with increased subsidies

The Biden Administration has further expanded a special sign-up season for health insurance plans offered on Obamacare exchanges, giving consumers until Aug. 15 to enroll in coverage that also may be much cheaper....more

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$1.9-trillion Biden law takes major steps to reshape U.S. health and health care

The Biden Administration’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus pandemic relief law, called the American Rescue Plan, tackles one of the leading concerns expressed by American voters in repeated recent political campaigns: our health...more

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Forecasting Healthcare Regulatory Developments in a Biden Administration

President Joe Biden was sworn into office on January 20, 2021. As with any incoming administration, new policies will be pursued while those of the previous administration are furthered, abandoned, or undone. The federal...more

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Washington Healthcare Update - November 2020 #2

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This week in Washington: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced he is waiting to see who will become the next House speaker before working on another COVID-19 stimulus package; Senate Appropriations Committee releases...more

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The health insurance mess: Worker costs jump anew, as kids’ coverage falls

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced many Americans to reconsider their transportation options, what with fears of infection and the slashing of public transit systems’ routes and schedules. That has made used cars, motorcycles,...more

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