Hospice Insights Podcast - Where’s the Line: When Does Poor Quality Create False Claims Liability
Hospice Insights Podcast - Hospice Audit Updates: Hospices Fare Well in Federal Court
Hospice Insights Podcast - AI in Action: Exploring How AI Is Helping Hospices Do Things in New Ways
Hospice Insights Podcast - Election Inspection: Be Proactive to Avoid Costly Election Statement Denials
Hospice Insights Podcast - Still Number One: Healthcare Fraud Remains Central in DOJ’s White Collar Enforcement Plan
Podcast - Innovations and Insights in the Palliative Care Space
Hospice Insights Podcast - Hospice Audit Updates: David Beats Goliath
Hospice Insights Podcast - But Wait: Things to Consider Before Adopting AI Tools In Your Hospice
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 10: Anti-Kickback Compliance for Hospice and Skilled Nursing Providers
Hospice Insights Podcast - One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Figuring Out What is Your Hospice+
Hospice Insights Podcast - Psychedelics and End of Life Care: Understanding the Legal Landscape
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 9: The Impact of AI and Prior Authorizations on Home Health and Hospice
Hospice Insights Podcast - Controlling the Narrative: A New Tactic for Auditors and ALJs
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 8: Hospice Special Focus Program: Pumping the Brakes
Hospice Insights Podcast - Upping the Ante: Will CMS’s Enhanced Oversight Efforts Cause Hospices to Fold?
Hospice Insights Podcast - A Year in Review: Reflections and Hopes for the Future
Hospice Insights Podcast - What a Difference No Deference Makes: Courts No Longer Bow to Administrative Agencies
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 7: OIG Report Reveals Gaps in Hospice PRF Compliance: What Providers Need to Know
Hospice Insights Podcast - Meet the New Laws, Same as the Old Laws: Overpayment Recoupment Update
AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice Podcast - Episode 6: Navigating the Audit Maze: Insights From Northeast Georgia Health System
On August 7, the DOJ and four state attorneys general announced a settlement to resolve their challenge to the $3.3 billion acquisition of Amedisys, Inc. (“Amedisys”) by UnitedHealth Group Inc. (“UnitedHealth”), as well as...more
The healthcare mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market remained active in Q2 2025, with several sectors including physician practice management (PPM), clinical research, and digital health experiencing continued investment and...more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. AL2024-031, Springhill Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Springhill Medical Center, Mobile County, AL: Proposes to add twenty (20) inpatient rehabilitation beds to an existing eighteen (18) bed...more
Welcome to our fifth issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we look at the effect tariffs could have on pharmaceuticals, the rise in healthcare facilities as the...more
The healthcare mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market began 2025 with a slower start than expected given the easing headwinds and building momentum at the end of last year, with the number of deals reported in Q1 lower than...more
News Briefs - Healthcare Industry Prepares for Stricter FTC Merger Guidelines - The Federal Trade Commission will continue to use stricter guidelines inked by the Biden administration in reviewing corporate mergers, FTC Chair...more
A group of four state associations and a hospice provider have filed a federal lawsuit in Texas challenging the Special Focus Program (“SFP”) Final Rule and the resulting list of hospices identified as poor performers. The...more
News Briefs - FTC Finalizes Providers' Reporting Rules Prior to M&A - The Federal Trade Commission has made changes to a rule meant to improve its ability to detect illegal mergers and acquisitions before they happen, by...more
Deal volume across the healthcare industry generally appears to have steadied despite headwinds. The general sentiment is that buyers have adapted to the current interest rates and are gritting their teeth and pressing...more
The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized important changes to the Medicare enrollment regulations applicable to hospices and home health agencies (HHAs), including increasing the level of screening that...more
The 21st-century healthcare landscape has been dramatically shaped by the rise of digitized healthcare solutions aimed at making healthcare more accessible, affordable, and personalized....more
The 42nd annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference started with clear skies and overall optimism from investors. But with Jamie Dimon’s prediction of a recession in 2024 on Tuesday morning, the climate shifted to an on-again,...more
After steadying during Q2, it appears the overall volume of deals in the healthcare industry declined in Q3 compared with Q2, and year-to-date 2023 is still down from last year. A slumping economy has no doubt played a large...more
The healthcare M&A market appears to be steadying. Although deal activity through the year appears slightly below the high-water marks for the corresponding period of 2022, deal activity is generally up from the first quarter...more
In this episode, Jason Bring, AGG Healthcare partner and co-chair of the Post-Acute & Long-Term Care team, and Lanchi Nguyen Bombalier, AGG Healthcare partner and member of the Post-Acute & Long-Term Care, Hospitals & Health...more
On June 30, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed rule for the Home Health Prospective Payment System for the 2024 calendar year. The proposed rule aims to permanently update the payment...more
On April 20, 2023, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) made ownership data of all Medicare-certified hospices and home health agencies publicly available for the first time. This move is consistent with the...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on April 27, 2023, that it will publicly release all ownership information of home health and hospice agencies. This move is aimed at increasing transparency and...more
On February 7, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its annual False Claims Act (FCA) recoveries for fiscal year 2022. DOJ recovered $2.2 billion from a total of 351 settlements and judgments—the second-highest...more
By now, we are all familiar with the concepts of value-based care and the transition away from a payment system built primarily on a fee-for-service reimbursement methodology to a patient centered model that focuses on...more
With some exceptions, healthcare M&A activity is down this year compared to the record-breaking highs of 2021. Those exceptions include the hospital sector, which is still seeing fewer but significantly larger (i.e., billion...more
On November 2, 2021, CMS put on display its final rule that, among other things, updates the home health and home infusion therapy services payment rates for calendar year (CY) 2022; makes significant changes to the provider...more
On August 6, 2019, CMS finalized its 2020 hospice rule, including adopting, without substantial modification, two controversial and material changes to the hospice benefit: Rebasing payment rates to shift about $500...more
National research indicates that health care workers are at a substantially higher risk of workplace violence than the average worker in another industry. According to the federal Occupational Safety and Health...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The California Division of Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board approved last week its regulations on Workplace Violence Prevention in Health Care. The California Division of Occupational...more