We often cover consumer class action complaints against companies regarding the privacy and security of personal information. However, litigation can also arise from alleged breach of contract between two companies…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Health, Privacy
On March 14, 2025, as part of a spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, Congress extended COVID-era telehealth “waivers” applicable to Medicare until September 30, 2025. These were originally scheduled to end…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Insurance
On March 3, 2025, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed a law establishing a new process for hospitals in bankruptcy to apply for an “emergency certificate of need” (CON) to approve a transfer of ownership. The law, titled “An…
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/ Administrative Law, Bankruptcy, Health
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 2025…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Health
In a much-anticipated decision, the First Circuit unanimously ruled the government and relators must prove that a violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) was the “but-for” cause of a false claim under the False…
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/ Civil Procedure, Government Contracting, Health
Massachusetts has expanded regulatory oversight of health care transactions by imposing False Claims Act liability on health care owners and investors for changes including failure to disclose violations. On January 8, 2025,…
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/ Health, Mergers & Acquisitions
Under a new 2025 law, Massachusetts is one of the first in the nation to broaden its state False Claims Act (FCA) to require disclosures by investors and owners of health care entities. On January 8, 2025, Governor Maura Healey…
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/ Business Organizations, Government Contracting, Health
At the close of 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the Proposed Rule) to amend the Security Rule regulations established for…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Privacy
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is being sued in two lawsuits after releasing its Final Rule on Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs). The Final Rule requires laboratories to adhere to the same preapproval and post-marketing…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
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). OIG…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Health
As part of its 2025 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (PFS Rule), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized two crucial updates to federal Medicare overpayments regulations (sometimes referred to as the…
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/ Health
In a highly anticipated decision on an issue facing courts across the country, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held in late October that Massachusetts hospitals’ use of online tracking technologies that collect and…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Health, Privacy
On November 15, 2024, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) jointly announced an extension of current COVID-era tele-prescribing flexibilities for another year – through…
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/ Administrative Law, Health
On September 30, 2024, Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida issued an order in United States ex rel. Clarissa Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates, LLC, holding that the…
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/ Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Health
On September 28, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed California Assembly Bill 3129 (the Bill). The Bill, if enacted, would have imposed new notice and consent requirements for private equity investors involved in…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health, Mergers & Acquisitions
