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
July 1 marked the effective date for three new laws that will create new rights for workers and new obligations for employers in Virginia: - Expansion of Non-Compete Ban – Virginia employers are now prohibited from...more
Following a trend in recent years, state legislatures continue to ban or curtail the use of non-compete provisions and other restrictive covenants in employment agreements with physicians and other healthcare providers. The...more
On June 9, 2025, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek signed into law Oregon Senate Bill 951 (Oregon CPOM Law), further expanding Oregon’s prohibition on the corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) doctrine. The stated purpose of the...more
In the wake of the nationwide injunction last year barring the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) attempted Noncompete Ban, states have continued to legislate the scope of enforceable restrictive covenants, especially...more
Last month we reported on physician and healthcare noncompete laws enacted in 2025. Shortly after the article was posted, another state joined the ranks: Indiana....more
The Oregon Senate opened a new front in the battle over corporate control of medical decisions with the passage of Senate Bill 951, representing yet another jurisdiction to restrict corporate control of medical...more
Following a nationwide trend for physician mobility, Indiana’s legislature has passed another amendment to the state’s 2020 Physician Non-Compete Statute (Ind. Code § 25-22.5-5.5), which limits the enforceability of...more
On March 19, 2025, Wyoming passed a new law, SF 107, broadly circumscribing employers’ use of noncompete agreements. Generally, SF 107 broadly prohibits covenants that restrict the right of “any person” to receive...more
When Indiana’s 2025 legislative session concluded on April 25, bills with significant implications for hospitals were approved. This alert addresses one of those bills—Senate Enrolled Act 475 (SEA 475)—which prohibits...more
A new year brings about new legislation. Given the recent trend of health care transactions coming under increased scrutiny at the state level, EBG has released its map summarizing states that already have laws...more
Confirming the bedrock principle that the antitrust laws are designed to protect competition and not individual competitors, a federal court put an end to a legal turf war over the cardiology market in Laredo, TX on January...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued its highly anticipated ruling in a pair of cases challenging the long-standing Chevron doctrine on June 28, 2024. Foreshadowed by decisions in recent years slighting Chevron, it...more
As we recently reported, in its Final Rule banning most worker non-competes, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) previously warned of its intent to vigorously enforce its non-compete ban wherever possible, which may include...more
In an earlier report, we examined the recent decision of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in ATS Tree Services, Inc. v. FTC, in which the Court rejected the plaintiff’s request for the...more
Following the national trend toward prohibiting or limiting non-compete agreements, Louisiana Senate Bill 165 limits the length and geographical scope of non-compete agreements for both specialty and primary care physicians....more
The Louisiana Legislature recently unanimously passed Act No. 273, which limits noncompete agreements for physicians in the state. The act requires all applicable new noncompete agreements to sunset after three years for...more
The future of non-competition agreements remains volatile. Recent actions by the FTC and several states threaten to limit, or even outright ban, these agreements. Such an evolving regulatory landscape requires employers to...more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved the proposed ban on non-compete agreements. Under the new rule, existing non-competes for senior executives remain enforceable....more
News Briefs - Groups Urge Appeals Court to Revive Drug Price Negotiation Suit - Healthcare and drug industry groups urged a U.S. appeals court to revive their challenge to a law requiring manufacturers to negotiate the prices...more
On April 23, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved a long-anticipated final rule that will effectively ban the use of noncompete clauses by employers, with a few limited exceptions....more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved a final rule (the “Rule”) broadly banning all employee non-compete clauses, with limited exceptions. The Saul Ewing Labor and Employment Group prepared an alert...more
News Briefs - Medicare Proposal Would Require Hospitals to Report Emissions - Hospitals for the first time could be asked to report their greenhouse gas emissions to the federal health department. A new Medicare proposal to...more
The Allegheny County Medical Society has reported that the Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed a bill to bar non-compete agreements in healthcare employment....more
News Briefs - Massive Cyberattack Could Spur Movement in Healthcare Industry - As the disruption caused by the cyberattack at Change Healthcare stretches beyond its tenth day, cybersecurity experts say the incident could spur...more
Valuations, and how a business reacts to them, directly impact a business’s ability to complete successful transactions. In the healthcare sector, compliance with federal and state laws against self-referral and kickbacks and...more