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
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CareYaya: A Revolutionary Approach to Elder Care
Top Healthcare Compliance Priorities for 2025
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 8: What Healthcare Companies Need to Know When the Government Comes Knocking
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 7: National MultiPlan Litigation: A Guide for Healthcare Providers
Defending HIMP-1 Claims in New York
Understanding Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The PBM Landscape Explained
DOJ’s New Self-Disclosure Policy and Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 4: What to Do When Insurance Companies Deny Behavioral Health Claims
Video: Braidwood v. Becerra – Challenging the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Services Coverage Provision – Thought Leaders in Health Law
Updates to Statute 1557 that Healthcare Providers Need to Know
The No Surprises Act: A Cost Saving Opportunity for Employer Plan Sponsors
Podcast: Health Equity – Behind the Buzzwords – Diagnosing Health Care
Opting Out of Medicare: When and How to Do It
The Burr Broadcast April 2023 - The Official End of COVID-19 Emergencies
Video: Health Care's Past, Present, and Future - Diagnosing Health Care Podcast
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 117: Chris Severn, Co-Founder & CEO, Turquoise Health
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 115: Dr. Michael Havig, CEO, HealthMe
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 106: Dr. James McElligott, MUSC & Dr. Shawn Stinson, BlueCross BlueShield of SC
In the wake of a recent federal District Court decision, the reproductive health care HIPAA Privacy rules finalized during the Biden Administration have been vacated and plan sponsors should re-evaluate the language included...more
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
Since President Trump's inauguration, the Trump administration has issued a number of executive orders and policy actions with potential impacts for the life sciences industry. Notable actions include rescinding Biden-era...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
Summary - This Order makes it the policy of the United States to enforce the Hyde Amendment, preventing the use of Federal money to fund or promote elective abortion. The EO further revokes two Executive Orders from the Biden...more
In recent months, several changes to healthcare rules regulations focusing on reproductive health care have been introduced. These include (1) privacy protections for reproductive health data under HIPAA, (2) expanding access...more
Access to reproductive health care has been a part of the national debate for years, and even more so since 2022 when the US Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs overturning decades of precedent established under Roe v....more
In recent elections, health care has been one of the most hot-button issues with consequences for millions of Americans, and this election is no exception. The next administration and the 119th Congress have the potential to...more
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and subsequent state abortion bans, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a...more
Imagine you are a corporate Human Resources/Total Rewards leader who receives a request from a state’s law enforcement agency for health plan records about a plan participant’s abortions or other reproductive health care. How...more
Employers will soon see the national debate about abortion popping up in some unexpected places: the HIPAA privacy policies and procedures and notices of privacy practices they use for their health benefit plans....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
In Ratliff v. Wycliffe Assoc., Inc., No. 6:22-cv-1185-PGB-RMN, 2023 WL 3688082 (M.D. Fla. May 26, 2023), the plaintiff, a software developer, sued the defendant, a Bible translation ministry, for sex discrimination under...more
The House and Senate were both in session this week, with significant healthcare activity at the committee level. The House Ways & Means Committee met to discuss healthcare price transparency, and the Ways & Means Health...more
Proposed Protections for Patient Data Related to Reproductive Care - On April 12, 2023, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) proposed a new rule to strengthen HIPAA...more
On January 13, 2022, the Freedom of Reproductive Choice Act, P.L. 2021, c. 375 (Act), was enacted to codify the constitutional right to freedom of reproductive choice, including the rights to access contraception, to...more
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
Much has been written about the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson to overturn the constitutional right to abortion. For employers in particular, the Dobbs decision raised a number of questions about employee...more
Physicians and Pharmacists Concerned Over Post Dobbs State Laws Limiting Independent Medical Judgment - On September 8, 2022, the American Medical Association (AMA), American Pharmacists Association (APhA), American...more
SAFE INTERNET SEARCHES AND PHONE CALLS- If I’m researching abortion online, are there ways to keep my searches private? Before you read these FAQs, you might want to educate yourself on how to keep your data more private....more
Congress faces a crowded agenda this fall comprised of must-pass policy initiatives and potential political messaging opportunities in the lead up to the November midterm elections. With control of both chambers at stake, the...more
Two months post-Dobbs, Shipman & Goodwin's Joan W. Feldman shares her insights and her predictions for the future of reproductive health law issues....more
Amazon. Bank of America. Citigroup. Dick’s Sporting Goods. JP Morgan. Kroger. Meta. Microsoft. Procter & Gamble. Target. Walt Disney Company. These are just a few of what is a growing list of companies that have offered to...more
As is now well known both in and outside of the legal community, the Supreme Court of the United States recently decided Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, where the Court analyzed a Mississippi law that restricted...more
On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, thereby holding that the U.S. Constitution does not expressly or implicitly protect...more