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Navigating Pa.’s unique IBHS licensing requirement for ABA therapy providers

Per Autism Speaks’ “Autism by the Numbers: 2025 Annual Report” (see autismspeaks.org/ABN, last visited July 20, 2025), currently one in 35 children in the United States has autism....more

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Massachusetts Joins National Nurse Licensure Compact

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On November 20, 2024, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy signed into law new legislation that brings Massachusetts into the Nurse Licensure Compact. This law aims to address the critical issue of nursing shortages by...more

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Florida’s New Simplified Licensure by Endorsement Law For Health Care Professions

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Every year, hundreds of thousands of people move to Florida from other states, including many health care practitioners who must apply for Florida licenses. A law passed during the 2024 Florida legislative session aims to...more

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New York Corporate Practice of Medicine and Its Impact on Medical Spas

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Medical spas, or “MediSpas,” have become very popular throughout the country, including New York. For those interested in owning and operating a medical spa, understanding New York’s complex regulatory landscape governing...more

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Breaking Down the Legal Challenges Surrounding State Licensure Restrictions for Telehealth Providers

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Late last year, the case Shannon MacDonald, MD, et al v. Otto Sabando was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The plaintiffs claimed that New Jersey’s licensure restrictions on the use of...more

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Private Equity: Proposed Health Over Wealth Act -What This Means for You

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On April 3, 2024, Senators Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), chaired a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security field hearing titled,...more

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You’ve Got (E-)Mail: Ohio Law Now Allows Licensing Agencies to Serve Disciplinary Actions Exclusively by Email

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Recent changes to Ohio law have licensed health care professionals asking themselves when was the last time they confirmed or updated their email address, and other contact information, with agencies like the State Medical...more

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Revised California Regulations for Reporting Health Care Transactions

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In July of this year, the California Office of Health Care Affordability (“OHCA”) released draft regulations requiring the advance reporting of certain healthcare transactions that could affect the cost of healthcare or...more

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Ohio Hospital Licensure Status Update

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As many of you are already aware, the 134th Ohio General Assembly passed House Bill 110 and enacted Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3722, which outlines the license requirements for Ohio hospitals. In that same Bill, the Ohio...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Tennessee Makes Major Changes to CON with Tennessee Health Services & Planning Act of 2021

Tennessee healthcare providers now have a very different certificate of need (CON) law to consider when they plan new facilities or expand services. Tennessee's legislature and governor recently enacted the Health Services...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

California Passes Major Hospice Reform, Including Minimum One Year New License Moratorium

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law two pieces of legislation intended to improve hospice oversight in the state on October 4, 2021. The laws resulted in part from the U.S. Department of Health and Human...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Major Development in BCBS Association Antitrust Litigation

Antitrust litigation has been ongoing for several years in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama against one of the biggest business associations in America, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Waiver of State Licensure Requirements for the Delivery of COVID-19 Countermeasures via Telehealth

In a fourth amendment to the March 17, 2020, Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has expanded access to COVID-19 Covered Countermeasures through...more

Butler Snow LLP

Tennessee Governor Lee Releases Executive Order No. 59 with Focus on Health Care

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On August 28, 2020, Governor Bill Lee issued Executive Order 59 which extends the state of emergency related to the COVID-19 crisis until September 30, 2020. To help facilitate ongoing targeted regulatory flexibility to...more

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COVID-19: Colorado Issues Emergency Order to Expand Use of Telehealth Services

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To expand the use of telehealth services during the COVID-19 emergency, Colorado Governor Jarod Polis issued Executive Order D 2020 020 (the Order) on April 1, 2020. The Order temporarily suspends or alters certain telehealth...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Florida Medicaid Behavior Analysis Services Providers must obtain a Health Care Clinic License or Exemption...

The Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration (“AHCA”) has added a condition of Medicaid enroll­ment for behavior analysis services. Behavior analysis providers use applied behavior analysis to assist children with autism...more

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Revoking Controlled Substances Registrations: the DEA’s Weapon to Fight Abusive Prescribing and Dispensing

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In response to the opioid crisis, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is cracking down on pharmacies, pharmacists, and prescribers by leveraging an old enforcement weapon: revocation of controlled substance...more

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Should A "Sister" State Necessarily Impose The Same Professional Discipline Against A Medical Practitioner That Another State...

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The Professional Practice Acts for many states routinely have provisions that permit a state to discipline a medical practitioner if that practitioner has been disciplined by another state in which the practitioner is also...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Texas Telemedicine Saga Finally Over? The Texas Medical Board Substantially Revises Telemedicine Regulations

The Texas Medical Board’s (the “Board”) adoption of new telehealth licensing regulations may finally put to bed long-running challenges to the state’s historically rigid position with respect to healthcare services delivered...more

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Physicians Begin Receiving Licenses Under Licensure Compact

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Recently, physicians became eligible to apply for out-of-state licensure pursuant to the Interstate Medical License Compact (Compact). The Compact is a voluntary agreement among eighteen states and twenty-three medical boards...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Georgia Enacts Nurse Licensure Compact Law

On May 8, 2017, Governor Nathan Deal signed legislation that will make it easier for Georgia nurses to practice across state lines. Senate Bill 109, which passed the Georgia legislature in March, will make Georgia part of the...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

FTC Weighs-in on Telehealth, Comments on Delaware’s Occupational Therapy Practice Rule

On August 3, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff submitted public comments regarding the Delaware Board of Occupational Therapy Practice’s proposed regulation for the provision of occupational therapy services via...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Health Care Group News: Part Two: The Rest of SB 351 (Now Public Act 16-95)

While Senate Bill 351, now enacted as Public Act 16-95 (the "Act"), received attention for the limits it placed on physician non-compete provisions, numerous other provisions of the Act are worth highlighting. These...more

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Recent Developments in Massachusetts Health Policy

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Building on the momentum of early October hearings on the state’s growing health care expenditures, the Health Policy Commission (HPC), the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, Governor Charlie Baker, and others spent...more

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