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
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
New Virginia "Workplace Violence" Definition and Healthcare Reporting Law: What's the Tea in L&E?
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 & Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 239: Understanding the 340B Pricing Program with Chuck Melendi of Disruptive Dialogue
Hospice Insights Podcast - Still Number One: Healthcare Fraud Remains Central in DOJ’s White Collar Enforcement Plan
Podcast: Addressing Patient Complaints About Privacy Violations
Podcast - Navigating the New Landscape of Private Equity in Healthcare
Medicaid Cuts: Potential Challenges and Legal Implications for Long-Term Care Facilities — Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
ADA Compliance for Medical and Dental Practices: Responding to Inquiries and Investigations
Beyond the Bylaws: The Medical Staff Show | The Role of Bylaws in Medical Staff Governance, Part II
Hospice Insights Podcast - But Wait: Things to Consider Before Adopting AI Tools In Your Hospice
Taking the Pulse: A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 232: Commercial Real Estate for Life Sciences Companies with Vinnie Durand of Savills
Understanding Senior Living Options with Beth Weeks
Executive Actions Impact Federally Funded Research: What Institutions Should Do Now – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 10: Anti-Kickback Compliance for Hospice and Skilled Nursing Providers
Healthcare Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidances (ICPGs)
Hospice Insights Podcast - One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Figuring Out What is Your Hospice+
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 229: Public Health in South Carolina with Dr. Edward Simmer of SC Dept of Public Health
On August 4, 2025, CMS issued a final rule (Final Rule) updating payment rates, policies, and quality programs for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) under the Medicare Prospective Payment System (SNF PPS) for Fiscal Year (FY)...more
Increasing audit activity combined with certain decreasingly favorable audit appeal outcomes has resulted in hospices appealing audit results beyond the administrative law judge phase and into federal court. In this episode,...more
Salters v. South Mountain Rehab. Ctr., LLC., A-1790-23, Jun. 17, 2025 - The plaintiff fell in his room at the defendants’ nursing facility. Because the plaintiff was taken to the hospital the next morning, September 16, 2019,...more
The Colorado Court of Appeals (Division VI), applying Colorado law, partially affirmed a trial court decision dismissing an action seeking insurance coverage for COVID‑19 related losses. Spectrum Retirement Communities, LLC...more
Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick...more
On April 7, 2025, U.S. District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas struck down the Biden administration’s final rule related to federally imposed minimum staffing requirements for long term care...more
The Medicaid application process can be complicated. However, there are several common mistakes made by filers that can make things even more difficult than they need to be, adding unnecessary obstacles. In this article, we...more
Decisions from May 23, 2025 - The Alabama Supreme Court issued its weekly release list on Friday, May 23. The opinions of interest to the Alabama business community include the following...more
On April 29, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion upholding the formula the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) utilized to calculate Medicare hospitals’ disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payment...more
On April 23, 2025, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied PointClickCare Technologies, Inc.’s petition for en banc review in Real Time Medical Systems, LLC v. PointClickCare. A Fourth Circuit panel previously...more
In its 2022 decision in Becerra v. Empire Health Foundation, for Valley Hospital Medical Center, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the phrase “entitled to [Medicare Part A] benefits” applied to “all those qualifying for the...more
On May 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its Final Rule to implement minimum staffing standards for long-term care (LTC) facilities in the United States. However, as discussed in our...more
Earlier last week, Hon. Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated two key provisions of CMS’s 2024 nationwide staffing mandate, the requirements that skilled nursing facilities...more
On April 7, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated staffing requirements published in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) May 2024 Minimum Staffing Rule (the “Final...more
On February 19, 2025, the California Court of Appeal published a decision, Lin v. Board of Directors of PrimeCare Medical Network, Inc., 108 Cal.App.5th 1163, emphasizing California Business and Professions Code’s requirement...more
When the Biden administration issued its final rule related to federally imposed minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities (“Final Rule”) on April 22, 2024, it sought to mandate minimum levels of nursing...more
In a major victory for nursing homes and long-term care industry advocates, on Monday, April 7, 2025, Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the US District Court for Northern Texas struck down a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...more
This year, health lawyers, providers, consultants, and government experts from across the country convened in Orlando, Florida, for the American Health Law Association’s Long Term and Post-Acute Care Law and Compliance...more
District Court Ruling Shows that the "Failing Firm" Defense Isn't a Total Failure - In FTC v. Community Health Systems Inc. & Novant Health Inc., No. 5:24-cv-0028 (W.D.N.C.), Judge Kenneth D. Bell of the U.S. District...more
In last term’s decision in Groff v. DeJoy, the U.S. Supreme Court significantly increased employers’ obligation to consider religious exemption requests under Title VII. Rather than the previous de minimus burden standard,...more
Many long-term care residents live in Missouri nursing homes for years. But occasionally circumstances may change such that it is no longer appropriate for the resident to continue to reside at the facility. In certain cases,...more
On July 25, the Connecticut Supreme Court issued an opinion in High Watch Recovery Center Inc. v. Department of Public Health that addresses the subject of the right to file an appeal of a certificate-of-need, or CON,...more