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Major Changes Coming to Health Care Noncompetes in Texas

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Our Health Care Group examines the new Texas law that restricts the use of noncompete clauses in physician and other health care practitioner employment contracts beginning September 1....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

What Means Means for Mushrooms and Marijuana: How Might Trump’s Surgeon General Nominee Shift the Conversation for Cannabis and...

Earlier this month, President Trump tapped “physician-turned wellness influencer” Casey Means as his nominee for surgeon general. Means has close ties to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Trump...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Dome Report: Cross Over Day at the 2025 Session of the West Virginia Legislature

Cross Over Day at the West Virginia Legislature separates the living bills from those that are most likely dead for the session. At the conclusion of the floor sessions on April 2, all bills have to be out of their house of...more

McDermott Will & Emery

SB 351 Proposes To Strengthen California CPOM and CPOD Doctrines

On February 12, 2025, Senator Christopher Cabaldon introduced California Senate Bill (SB) 351, which would codify and strengthen California’s existing corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) and corporate practice of dentistry...more

King & Spalding

Congress Considering Bipartisan Legislation to Expand Medicare GME Programs

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On December 18, 2024, a bipartisan group of four Senators on the Senate Finance Committee released draft legislation that would expand the total number of Medicare Graduate Medical Education (GME) full-time equivalent (FTE)...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Trending in Telehealth: October 14 – 21, 2024

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Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists, and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Having Trouble Recruiting Physicians? The Conrad 30 Window is Opening Soon

The U.S. has long had a shortage of physicians in various practice areas. The shortage is even more pronounced in rural areas. International medical graduates (IMG’s) who come to the U.S. to complete a residency in a...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Trending in Telehealth: July 23 – 29, 2024

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Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Holland & Knight Health Dose: February 6, 2024

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Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Healthcare Trends & Transactions Q3 2023

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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

McDermott Will & Emery

Reforms to the Florida Patient Self-Referral Act: A Closer Look at the Impact of SB 768

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Florida Senate Bill 768 (SB 768) amends the Florida Patient Self-Referral Act of 1992 (PSRA), which regulates financial arrangements between referring healthcare providers and providers of healthcare services. This amendment,...more

Holland & Hart LLP

Consent for Treatment of Minors in Idaho - Update

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In Idaho, persons under the age of 18 (“minors”) may consent to their own healthcare in only limited circumstances. General Rule: Obtain Consent from Parent or Surrogate Decision Maker. Idaho Code § 39‑4503 sets forth...more

McDermott Will & Emery

New York State Enacts Filing Requirement for Physician Practice Management and Physician Practice Transactions

On May 3, 2023, New York State enacted legislation that will require physician practice management services organizations (MSOs) and physician practices to submit a comprehensive filing to the New York State Department of...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Doctor-Patient Relationships and Medical Marijuana: Where Are We Now?

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On December 2, 2022, President Joseph Biden signed the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act (Cannabis Research Act), which provides a mechanism for industry and academia to access and research cannabis,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California Passes First State Law Requiring Physicians to Disclose Open Payments Database to Patients

Effective January 1, 2023, the recently enacted California Assembly Bill 1278,requires a physician and surgeon (defined as a physician and surgeon licensed pursuant to the Medical Practice Act or an osteopathic physician and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Virtual Event] Portland Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - February 4th, 8:25 am - 4:30 pm PST

General and specialty compliance training from the comfort of your home or office! HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences provide practitioners with virtual compliance training that includes updates on the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Debate Continues Around Scope of Practice Expansion for APPs

Scope of practice expansion has been a hot-button issue within medical communities and state legislatures for more than thirty years. The debate is centered on what services advanced practice providers (“APPs”) who hold...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

[Webinar] Health Care Antitrust Under President Biden 2.0 - Almost One Year In: What Have We Learned About The Democrats’ Approach...

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In March 2021, our experienced intellectual property, antitrust, and health care litigation lawyers shared some predictions on antitrust policy and enforcement in the health care sector. In “Health Care Antitrust under...more

Epstein Becker & Green

The No Surprises Act: A Look at the First Round of Federal Regulations on Surprise Billing

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On July 13, 2021, the Biden administration (“Administration”) officially published the “Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part I”—its first regulatory response to the enactment of the No Surprises Act (“NSA”)—as an...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

[Podcast] Health Equity – Two Perspectives

In this new episode of OnAir: Health Care, Akin Gump health care senior policy advisor Matthew Hittle and consultant Dr. Mario Ramirez welcome House Ways and Means Committee health counsel Orriel Richardson and National...more

BakerHostetler

[Podcast] 32nd Annual Legislative Seminar Series: Senator Bill Cassidy, R-La.

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Former Congressman Mike Ferguson, leader of BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team, and former Congressman Heath Shuler, a Senior Advisor on the Federal Policy team host bipartisan leaders from the House and Senate to discuss...more

Polsinelli

California Health Care Stakeholders, Providers and Investors Take Note: SB 642 Clears California Senate Health Committee

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California Senate Bill 642 (“SB 642”) cleared the California Senate Health Committee on April 28, 2021. If enacted, SB 642 would, among other things, significantly impact management and governance rules applicable to...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

[Podcast] Vaccine IP Fight; Delicate Dem Dynamics; Deciphering CDC

In this new episode of OnAir: Health Care, Akin Gump health care senior policy advisor Matthew Hittle and consultant Dr. Mario Ramirez welcome public law and policy partners Ed Pagano and Clete Willems to talk federal health...more

McDermott Will & Emery

340B in 2021: What Covered Entities and Their Partners Need to Know Now

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Since March 2010, increased growth in the 340B Program has been accompanied by increased scrutiny from state and federal governments and conflicts between various 340B Program stakeholders. A transition in U.S. Department of...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Gold Dome Report — Legislative Day 38

Legislative Day 38 continues as we publish this evening, a consequence of long floor calendars, weighty measures, and a quickly diminishing inventory of days remaining in the 2021 Legislative Session. Voting legislation...more

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