Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 117: Chris Severn, Co-Founder & CEO, Turquoise Health
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 115: Dr. Michael Havig, CEO, HealthMe
HealthLaw HotSpot - A Look at Alternative Reimbursement Models in Value-Based Care
Make sure you’re providing good faith estimates to uninsured & self-pay patients - Under the No Surprises Act, healthcare providers are required to offer Good Faith Estimates (GFEs) to self-pay and uninsured patients...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new Updated Hospital Price Transparency Guidance (Guidance) to “strengthen the Hospital Price Transparency requirements, requiring hospitals to post the actual...more
Welcome to our sixth issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we look at the impact of supply chain and tariff issues on the industry, the veto of Florida's...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 Hospital Price Transparency Law, codified at 45 CFR Part 180 and effective as of January 1, 2021, was implemented to provide the public with accessible hospital pricing information, aiming to eliminate hidden fees and...more
On February 25, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients with Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information” (the 2025 Order). This directive...more
Earlier this week, Senate Bill 316 (the “Bill”) was filed in the North Carolina state legislature. The Bill covers a large swathe of healthcare-related issues, and the additional regulatory elements of the Bill would likely...more
On February 25, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order directing federal agencies to “rapidly implement and enforce” federal healthcare price transparency regulations....more
News Briefs - Trump Signs Executive Order to Improve Health Price Transparency - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to improve price transparency on healthcare costs by directing federal agencies to...more
One mandate under the PPACA required health care providers, non-grandfathered health insurance issuers and self-insured group health plans to provide consumers with access to information about the cost of services before they...more
The Trump administration is beginning to lay out its regulatory (and deregulatory) priorities, and on February 25, 2025, the administration spotlighted one of those priorities in an executive order on price transparency....more
President Trump’s Executive Order 14224 reinforces and expands a 2019 Executive Order which aimed to improve healthcare price transparency. On February 25, 2025, President Trump signed a new 2025 Executive Order entitled...more
On February 25, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order titled “Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients with Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information” (the “2025 Order”)...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
On Tuesday, Feb. 25, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients with Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information” (the Executive Order)....more
On February 25, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients with Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information” (the 2025 Order). The...more
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for November 2024. We discuss several US Department of Justice (DOJ) enforcement actions involving the False Claims Act (FCA) and the...more
How many of you reading this have had this experience: you get a settlement demand with hundreds of thousands of dollars in claimed hospital bills, but the actual amount owed by the claimant is redacted, or you are told by...more
News Briefs - FDA Guidelines Require TV Drug Ads to Be Simpler, More Direct - Those ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking, or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different look: New rules require...more
In November 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published the results of its audit assessing hospital compliance with the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule (HPT Rule)....more
Earlier this month, OIG’s Office of Audit Services released its latest report on providers’ compliance with the Hospital Price Transparency Rule (the HPT Rule). The HPT Rule requires hospitals to make public (1) a...more
CMS’s Hospital Price Transparency regulations require hospitals to make public the standard charges of the items and services that they provide. In the CY 2024 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule (CY...more
Medicaid Regs Part 2! Last week, Regs & Eggs took a deep dive into the Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services final reg, one of two regs that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released to add new requirements...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
Happy 2024! The entire Saul Ewing Health Law Practice Group wishes you and yours a healthy and prosperous new year and successful (and compliant) activities in the health care delivery system this year and beyond....more