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Executive Orders and Policy Updates

Jones Day on 4/3/2025

Since President Trump's inauguration, the Trump administration has issued a number of executive orders and policy actions with potential impacts for the life sciences industry. Notable actions include rescinding Biden-era...more

Congress Extends Telehealth Flexibilities for Two More Years

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 12/19/2024

With only two weeks remaining in the year, Congress is considering a government funding deal (the “Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025” or the “Bill”) that includes a...more

Update: Federal and State Agencies Release Telehealth-Related Updates

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 10/29/2024

Following the telehealth boom initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic, agencies continue to contend with competing interests in the telehealth space. Current legislation on both state and federal levels indicates that while these...more

COVID-Era Flexibilities Granted in Wake of Change Healthcare Cybersecurity Attack

McDermott+ on 3/21/2024

Today marks one month since United Health Group’s (UHG) Change Healthcare reported that it had been hit by a cybersecurity attack. The attack has caused a major disruption to the US healthcare system, significantly impacting...more

Podcast: Telehealth Post-Public Health Emergency – What to Expect in 2024 – Diagnosing Health Care

Epstein Becker & Green on 12/7/2023

What trends in state laws and regulations have emerged in the post-public health emergency (PHE) era, and how do these changes impact telehealth stakeholders? At the federal level, many telehealth-related flexibilities have...more

Health Care Week in Review: HHS Coverage Flexibilities and MedPAC/MACPAC Reports

Alston & Bird on 6/19/2023

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

Health Care Week In Review: COVID-19 PHE Expires, DEA Issues Final Rule

Alston & Bird on 5/15/2023

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

End of an Era: COVID-19 Public Health Emergency is Ending

Burr & Forman on 3/7/2023

The Biden Administration recently announced its intent to end the national emergency and public health emergency declarations on May 11, 2023, over three years since the COVID-19 pandemic began. While there have certainly...more

2022 Health Care Employment Law Year in Review

K&L Gates LLP on 2/21/2023

Health care employment law was once again a critical focus for many legislative bodies in 2022. While much of our 2021 Year in Review focused on how states addressed the COVID-19 pandemic itself, most notably with respect to...more

10 Legal Challenges for the Health Care Industry in 2023

ArentFox Schiff on 2/17/2023

With the new year underway, the ArentFox Schiff Health Care team highlights 10 of the most pressing legal issues facing the industry in 2023. End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. After being in effect for more than...more

In the Metaverse, Existing Healthcare Rules Apply

Goodwin on 1/27/2023

Providers and platforms should know that healthcare in the metaverse — which may involve telepresence, digital twinning, and blockchain — is subject to ‘real life’ regulations. The metaverse uses technologies such as...more

Getting Healthcare in 2023 and Beyond…Virtually…and Securely

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 1/17/2023

Much is being written about “remote work” – is it productive, will demand for it continue or be curtailed in a recession, is cybersecurity compromised, does it inhibit workplace culture, collaboration, etc. Lots of questions,...more

Day 4 Notes from the 41st Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 1/16/2023

One of the topics I followed with keen interest this week at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference is how our healthcare industry today is addressing the mental health needs of Americans. Like much of the rest of healthcare,...more

Health Care Week in Review: Congress Passes Omnibus, HHS Releases Hospital Data

Alston & Bird on 12/26/2022

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

Cozen Currents: The Changing Politics of Crises

Cozen O'Connor on 9/28/2022

The Cozen Lens- •Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill face differing political calculations on climate change policy but both are experiencing divisions in their parties and shifting public opinions....more

Telehealth in a Post-Pandemic World

Butler Snow LLP on 9/15/2022

As we enter the third year of the pandemic, life with COVID-19 has become the new “normal” for many Americans. While debate can be had about when a pandemic ends or becomes endemic, there is no dispute that more and more...more

Privacy and Security of Health Information: A Primer for Digital Health Companies

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 6/2/2022

COVID-19 has rapidly accelerated our expectations that virtual connection can deliver better and more economical care. As a result, digital health companies have an unprecedented opportunity to innovate, but with that...more

Washington Healthcare Update - May 2022 #2

McGuireWoods Consulting on 5/17/2022

This Week in Washington: Senate Fails to Advance Bill Protecting Abortion Rights After Supreme Court Draft Opinion Leak...more

Alston & Bird Health Care Week in Review - May 2022 #1

Alston & Bird on 5/9/2022

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

2022 Health Care Predictions

Saul Ewing LLP on 2/3/2022

COVID-19 – and its variants Delta and Omicron – continue to wreak havoc around the world. Thousands of individuals have died and continue to die, and millions more have been diagnosed as having COVID-19. Many sectors of the...more

[Event] Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - December 10th, Richmond, VA

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 11/2/2021

Our one-day Regional Compliance Conferences provide attendees with a forum to interact with local compliance professionals, share information about your compliance successes and challenges, and create educational...more

[Webinar] First Annual Health Law Virtual Summit - November 4th - 5th, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm ET

Dickinson Wright on 10/28/2021

From new fraud and abuse rules, to telehealth and tax legislation to health care privacy and private equity in the healthcare space, a lot has changed in health law over the past year. Please join us for a two-day virtual...more

Vital Signs: Digital Health Law Update | Summer 2021

Jones Day on 8/13/2021

NOTE FROM THE EDITORS - The "dog days of summer" certainly provide a welcome, if brief, break in the extremely rapid pace of statutory, regulatory, and various other policy and industry efforts applicable to digital health....more

Living in a Virtual World: The Post-Pandemic Future of Telehealth

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 7/29/2021

As the United States is now more than one year into the COVID-19 pandemic and as life for many is returning to some sense of normalcy, this is a great time for healthcare organizations to evaluate their compliance with the...more

New CADTH Report on Health Technology Trends in 2021

Smart & Biggar on 3/30/2021

The Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) published an interesting new report on January 29, 2021 about Health Technology Trends to Watch. The report identifies the following list of emerging trends...more

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