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
Beyond the Bylaws: The Medical Staff Show - Need to Know: How to Manage Medical Staff Confidentiality and Privilege Protections
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
On July 16, 2025, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the state’s charity care requirement—which mandates that hospitals must treat patients regardless of their ability to pay—does not amount to...more
In the early days of the second Trump Administration, several federal funding agencies announced caps to indirect cost (“IDC”) rates for federally funded research awards. In many cases, these caps would substantially reduce...more
Gov. Shapiro Warns About Medicaid Cuts, Rural Hospital Closures - During a press conference in York on Monday, Governor Josh Shapiro (D) sharply criticized Pennsylvania Republicans for supporting a federal reconciliation...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 June 30, 2025 Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed a bill implementing the state budget through June 30, 2027, Public Act No. 25-168 (PA-168). PA-168, among other things, contains changes to the state’s Certificate of...more
NY Public Health Law (PHL) § 18-c, regarding consent for payment of certain medical services, was enacted as part of the 2025 New York State budget. As drafted, it requires patient consent to payment for treatment costs. The...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published a press release rescinding its June 2022 guidance concerning hospitals’ obligations to pregnant women under the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act...more
Certificate of Need (CON) emerged as a central issue during West Virginia's recent legislative session, with substantial efforts to eliminate the system ultimately falling short. The CON reform has been a longstanding policy...more
On June 3, 2025, the Trump Administration announced that it rescinded the Biden Administration’s guidance issued on July 11, 2022. The Biden Administration’s guidance advises hospital providers that, under the federal...more
On May 28, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) sent a letter to “select hospitals” that provide gender-affirming care services, requesting information about how those hospitals adhere to quality standards...more
In our February 14, 2025 blog post, we detailed a proposed expansion of Article 45-A of New York’s Public Health Law (hereinafter, the Disclosure of Material Transactions Law) included in the proposed Fiscal Year 2026 New...more
On May 22, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took a series of actions to promote enhanced price transparency compliance by hospitals and identify challenges thereto, in order to inform future price...more
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a significant ruling affecting hospitals that serve low-income Medicare beneficiaries, narrowing the interpretation of the Disproportionate Share Hospital (“DSH”) payment formula. In...more
Just last week, we reported that the 2025/26 NYS Budget Bill did not include a provision that would have increased the requirements for seeking Department of Health (DOH) approval of a material healthcare transaction (which...more
On May 8, the Colorado Court of Appeals concluded that any claim that might be asserted under the Health Care Worker Protection Act (“HCWPA”), C.R.S § 8-2-123, is subject to the notice requirement in the Colorado Governmental...more
Last week, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Kennedy, siding with the government and holding that, for purposes of the Medicare disproportionate share hospital (DSH) calculation,...more