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Healthcare Trends & Transactions Q2 2025

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 7/30/2025

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

Better Health Care Newsletter - July 2025

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 7/3/2025

With 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 each day, it’s not hard to see why aging well — even spectacularly well — has become a leading obsession of our era. The good news is that yes, there are practical ways to extend life,...more

Better Health Care Newsletter - May 2025

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 5/8/2025

Great thinkers have sought for centuries to convey a crucial truth about humanity’s interconnection. As the poet John Donne wrote: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the...more

New Requirements for Research Security Programs Raise the Stakes for Compliance

Holland & Knight LLP on 7/23/2024

The National Security Presidential Memorandum-33 (NSPM-33), issued in January 2021, directed federal agencies that fund research and development (R&D) projects to require certain "Covered Institutions" to certify that the...more

Healthcare Trends & Transactions Q2 2024

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 7/17/2024

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

NY Medical College Clashes With OIG After Audit Questions $7.5M, PI Salaries, ‘Illegible Signatures’

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/24/2024

New York Medical College (NYMC) officials thought the HHS Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) audit was wrapping up in December 2021, based on what “the original senior auditor” told them. But the auditor retired and work...more

4 Major Implications of Cannabis Moving to Schedule III

Vicente LLP on 5/1/2024

After 50 years of being on the most restrictive schedule alongside drugs like heroin and PCP, the DEA will move to reschedule marijuana in Schedule III, where the plant’s medical benefits will finally be recognized by the...more

‘If Only She Could Have Been Stronger’: Miami Trial Fraud Leads to Prison, Personal Loss

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 3/27/2024

In September 2015, while working in an office on the grounds of Mercy Hospital in Miami, Ivette Maria Portela Martinez learned about an upcoming clinical trial for treatment of symptoms of Clostridium difficile infections and...more

Moffitt Center’s FCA Settlement is First of 2024; Questions Surround Nature of Billing Errors

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 1/30/2024

Moffitt Cancer Center’s recent $19.5 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the state of Florida resolving allegations that billing errors violated the False Claims Act (FCA) triggered a “fully...more

Wash. Federal Judge Pokes Hole in New Wave of Vaccine Mandate Challenges

Husch Blackwell LLP on 1/25/2024

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer worked diligently to develop safe and effective vaccines. Following the FDA’s approval of these vaccines, many state governments and private...more

All the Outcomes of a Marijuana Reschedule

Husch Blackwell LLP on 1/23/2024

Between LinkedIn, Twitter, the media, and diehard marijuana investors, there is more noise and froth in the industry about a marijuana reschedule than I’ve seen since Washington and Colorado legalized it back in 2012. When...more

DEA is Going to Have a Hard Time Fighting Marijuana Rescheduling

McGlinchey Stafford on 1/17/2024

Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the full text of its letter (HHS Letter) to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), recommending marijuana rescheduling from Schedule I to Schedule III....more

HHS Marijuana Recommendation Now on Blast

Husch Blackwell LLP on 1/16/2024

In October 2022, President Biden asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Attorney General to review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law. In August 2023, the HHS marijuana recommendation went...more

Ohio Marijuana: House Member Introduces Bill to Amend Recently Passed Adult-Use Law

McGlinchey Stafford on 12/4/2023

Ohio Republicans have begun to propose legislative changes to the recently passed Issue 2, the Ohio Marijuana Legalization Initiative (Initiative), passed by over 57% of Ohioans in November. House Bill No. 341 (the Bill) was...more

New Artificial Intelligence Executive Order Contains Numerous Healthcare Implications

Holland & Knight LLP on 11/7/2023

President Joe Biden on Oct. 30, 2023, signed a sweeping executive order (EO) and invoked the Defense Production Act to establish the first set of standards for using artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare and other...more

DOJ: Stanford FCA Case Involved Failures to Disclose Foreign Support From Seven Countries

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 10/26/2023

Report on Research Compliance 20, no. 11 (November, 2023) It wasn't just China. China is among the countries whose support for Stanford University investigators wasn’t reported to five federal research funding agencies,...more

[Event] Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy - February 26th - 29th, Phoenix, AZ

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 10/2/2023

Ideal for professionals with some compliance knowledge and experience, HCCA’s Healthcare Privacy Compliance Academy offers practitioners a deeper understanding of effective compliance management in a healthcare setting. The...more

Buckle Up: Artificial Intelligence Accelerates Drug Discovery and Streamlines Patient Care

Womble Bond Dickinson on 9/7/2023

The concept of artificial intelligence (AI) in drug discovery and manufacturing has been in progress for more than 10 years; however, with the current advancements in technology, medicine, and research, AI is closer than ever...more

US Officially Recognizes Medical Use and Safety of Cannabis: The Top 6 Things to Know About Schedule III and the Process Ahead

Vicente LLP on 9/1/2023

On August 30, 2023, the federal government formally acknowledged the medical use and low potential of abuse for cannabis, with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommending that cannabis be rescheduled to...more

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