Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 248: Fighting Addiction and Expanding Access to Treatment with Sara Howe and Morgan Coyner of APNC
False Claims Act Insights - An FCA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence in the Healthcare Industry
Hospice Insights Podcast - Hospice Audit Updates: Hospices Fare Well in Federal Court
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 245: Using AI to Improve Radiology with Angela Adams of Inflo Health
Podcast - Regulating AI in Healthcare: The Road Ahead
Can Food Really Be Medicine? Transforming Health Care One Bite at a Time – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
What’s in Your Operating Agreement? Legal Tips for Healthcare Providers
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 244: The Future of Independent Physician Practices with Ray Waldrup of The Leaders Rheum
Beyond the Bylaws: The Medical Staff Show - Need to Know: How to Manage Medical Staff Confidentiality and Privilege Protections
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 243: HIPAA Compliance and Potential Changes with Shannon Lipham of Maynard Nexsen
New Virginia "Workplace Violence" Definition and Healthcare Reporting Law: What's the Tea in L&E?
Hospice Insights Podcast - AI in Action: Exploring How AI Is Helping Hospices Do Things in New Ways
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 241: Fighting Nurse Burnout with Data-Driven Innovation with Dr. Ecoee Rooney of Indicator Sciences
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 240: Independent Practice In Dermatology with Dr. Darragh and Dr. Shuler of Carolina Dermatology
Podcast: Addressing Patient Complaints About Privacy Violations
False Claims Act Insights - How Payment Suspensions Can Impact FCA Litigation
Evolving AI Legislation: Federal Policies, Task Forces, and Proposed Laws — The Good Bot Podcast
Podcast - Innovations and Insights in the Palliative Care Space
ADA Compliance for Medical and Dental Practices: Responding to Inquiries and Investigations
False Claims Act Insights - Trump DOJ Sharpens Its Focus on Healthcare Fraud
Reproductive health privacy is once again in the legal spotlight with a recent federal district court decision that struck down nearly all of a recent rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has rescinded its 2022 guidance and accompanying letter that reinforced hospitals' obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to provide...more
A federal judge in Texas just tossed out Biden-era reproductive healthcare privacy protections, halting a 2024 final rule with nationwide effect. The rule, which largely took effect in December and created new HIPAA privacy...more
An Idaho federal court has resolved the tension between that state’s restrictive abortion law and the federal Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA) in favor of a hospital system’s obligation to stabilize pregnant...more
CASE AT A GLANCE - In 2018, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic (PPSAT) and one of its patients, Julie Edwards, sued the administrator of South Carolina’s Medicaid program to enforce the “free choice of Medicaid provider”...more
On Wednesday, March 5, 2025, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge permanently blocked Arizona’s 15-week abortion ban and ruled that the former law is unconstitutional. The 15-week ban was passed by the Arizona...more
The January 30, 2025 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an article entitled “Providing Interstate Telehealth Abortion Services to Patients in Restrictive States.” In the second sentence, the authors write:...more
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear South Carolina’s challenge to the Fourth Circuit’s decision blocking South Carolina’s Medicaid program from ending its provider agreement with Planned Parenthood. The dispute arises from...more
Healthcare providers must comply with the new HIPAA Reproductive Health Rule (the “Rule”) by December 23, 2024. Here is what you need to know and do before then. Overview. In the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health...more
Over two years into the post-Dobbs era, women’s health is taking center stage in the presidential election. In Dobbs v. Jackson, the Supreme Court overturned protections relating to abortion established in Roe v. Wade. Since...more
On April 22, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a Final Rule prohibiting the use and disclosure of protected health information (PHI) related to lawful...more
Congress Returns. The House and Senate will be back in session on September 9, 2024, with a joint focus on completing consideration of a continuing resolution (CR) to maintain government funding beyond the end of fiscal year...more
On August 23, 2024, an Ohio state court issued a preliminary injunction in Preterm-Cleveland et al. v. Dave Yost et al., No. 24-cv-02634, staying the enforcement of multiple Ohio civil and criminal abortion-related statutes....more
Iowa’s fetal heartbeat law, House File 732, which was signed into law by Governor Kim Reynolds in 2023, will go into effect on Monday, July 29. The law has been temporarily enjoined from enforcement since last July, however a...more
Last week, the Kansas Supreme Court issued two decisions striking down a series of state anti-abortion laws passed by the Kansas Legislature. The first case challenged S.B. 95, a bill enacted by the Legislature in 2015...more
HHS announced modifications last week to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy Rule, that will strengthen privacy protections for reproductive health care information. The Final...more
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in the consolidated cases of Moyle v. United States, Case No. 23-726 and Idaho v. United States, Case No. 23-727. These cases asked the justices to consider whether the...more
On Jan. 11, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) published its 2024 Final Rule governing healthcare conscience protections, "Safeguarding the Rights of Conscience as...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that cryogenically frozen embryos are children and are protected from destruction under state law. This is the latest in a series of post-Dobbs judicial rulings...more
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Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed multiple bills into law as part of California’s ongoing efforts to safeguard access to reproductive and gender affirming health care. The new laws are intended to increase protections for...more
On May 1st, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced investigations into two hospitals that did not provide necessary stabilizing treatment to a pregnant individual experiencing an emergency medical...more
The federal District Court of Idaho has issued a ruling that will help protect physicians and other healthcare providers who refer patients outside of Idaho for an abortion....more
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization one year ago overturned 50 years of legal precedent protecting the constitutional right to abortion in the United States, leaving the question of...more
For a brief moment in time last April, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) approval of the commonly-used abortion medication, Mifepristone, was curtailed. Just days after a Texas federal judge’s ruling suspended...more