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
The Trend of Threatening Physicians for Personal Gain
Taking the Pulse: A Health Care & Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 239: Understanding the 340B Pricing Program with Chuck Melendi of Disruptive Dialogue
Podcast: Addressing Patient Complaints About Privacy Violations
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 236: Advocating for Accessible Diagnoses with Sydney Severance of Operation Upright
Podcast - Navigating the New Landscape of Private Equity in Healthcare
Beyond the Bylaws: The Medical Staff Show | The Role of Bylaws in Medical Staff Governance, Part II
Executive Actions Impact Federally Funded Research: What Institutions Should Do Now – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
Criminal Health Care Fraud Enforcement: Projections for 2025 and Beyond – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
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
Beyond the Bylaws: The Medical Staff Show - The Role of Bylaws in Medical Staff Governance, Part I
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 226: Orlando Health’s Expansions and Research with Amy Allen and Thibaut Van Marke of Orlando Health
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 224: Healthcare Practice Operations with Steve McPheeters of HighFive Healthcare
Compliance and Value-Based Care
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 219: The Evolving Nursing Industry with Terry McDonnell of Duke University Health System
The Evolving Landscape of Behavioral Health Transactions: Insights from Industry Professionals
The CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Rules
Antitrust Considerations in Long-Term Care — Assisted Living and the Law Podcast
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 206: Supporting Patient Care with Darra Coleman of Prisma Health
On May 30, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its long-awaited opinion in Pottstown School District v. Montgomery County Board of Assessment Appeals. In a 5-2 decision, the court held that Pottstown Hospital in Montgomery...more
The US House of Representatives passed its One Big Beautiful Bill Act on May 22, 2025 (the Act), but nonprofit health systems may not find much about the Act that’s attractive. If passed by the US Senate and signed into law,...more
Like Peas in a Pod? What do private, not-for-profit colleges and hospitals have in common? There are quite a few items that come immediately to mind: •They may qualify for exemption from federal income tax. •Tax-exempt...more
The new compliance focus on executive compensation, as announced by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on March 3, 2023, has significant implications for how healthcare organizations address both corporate compliance and...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised concern among health care leaders about the preparedness of acute care systems to adapt to and manage large-scale environmental disruptions. Current physician compensation models do not align...more
On June 12, 2020, the IRS released proposed regulations on the enforcement of Section 4960 of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Section 4960 imposes a 21% excise tax on “applicable tax-exempt organizations” (ATEOs), including...more
Hospitals, health systems and other tax-exempt organizations are responding to a longer and deeper economic crisis by making or considering significant changes to their executive compensation and executive benefit programs....more
As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis unfolds, human and economic resources are and will be strained. Hospitals and health systems must be prepared to address the executive and physician compensation, benefits and contract...more
The Senate voted yesterday to begin formal negotiations with the House of Representatives to reconcile their two versions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a bill that seeks to make sweeping changes to federal tax law....more
Update. We described in a previous blog post major changes that tax-exempt hospitals and other tax-exempt organizations in the healthcare industry face in the tax reform proposals working their way through Congress. In the...more
As federal tax reform efforts proceed rapidly in both chambers of Congress, tax-exempt hospitals and other tax-exempt healthcare organizations are facing major potential changes. New tax burdens on tax-exempt organizations...more
A recent New Jersey Tax Court decision has nonprofit entities on edge. The decision may offer tax authorities the opportunity to pursue payments from nonprofit hospitals and may result in the redefining of tax exemptions by...more
On January 28, 2015, the Tennessee Attorney General ("Attorney General") issued a formal opinion ("Opinion") addressing whether Tennessee law permits "the board of a public hospital to meet in closed session to discuss...more
A series of alternative proposed Initiative Petitions were filed Thursday, August 7, with the Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts (the “AGO”) seeking primarily to establish specified limits on operating margins...more
On June 16, Kaiser Health News, in collaboration with ABC News, released an article focusing on compensation of executives at non-profit hospital systems. Kaiser Health News obtained compensation information for CEOs at...more
In This Issue: - King & Spalding Partners Address Political Intelligence Industry - On the Politics of Immigration Reform - Appropriations and Sequester – Laying Down Markers - The Congressional Appropriations...more