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Washington Healthcare Update | July 6, 2020

By Stephanie Kennan & Mariam Eatedali

July 6, 2020

Hearings Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP): “COVID-19: Update on Progress Toward Safely Getting Back to Work and Back to School” Tuesday, June 30, 2020: The Senate HELP committee held hearing in its continuing series on Americans returning to work and school during the COVID-19 pandemic. Find more details on the hearing here. Why this is important: Senate HELP Committee Chair Lamar Alexander (R-TN) suggested during the hearing that either states or Congress…

Take Stock: Federal Policy Watch

Emerging Technologies Washington Update – Coronavirus Response

By Michael Drobac, Amanda Armistead, Greg Walden, Greg Guice, Nicole Cohen, Eli Levine & Taylor Gayton

July 2, 2020

The Latest House and Senate committees are continuing to hold hearings examining various COVID-19-related issues, including its impact on certain sectors and communities and the federal government response. This week, committees looked at issues ranging from the 2020 tax filing season and IRS COVID-19 recovery, safely getting back to work and school, oversight of the Treasury Department’s and Federal Reserve’s pandemic response, infrastructure development opportunities to drive economic recovery, the Economic …

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U.S. Supreme Court’s CFPB Decision: Implications for Consumer Finance and Other Agencies

By Joseph J. Reilly

July 1, 2020

This week’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Seila Law v. CFPB reached its most widely expected conclusion, ultimately allowing the CFPB to continue to operate. But the opinion also raises questions about previously initiated CFPB enforcement actions, and arguably raises constitutional issues about the many other federal agencies whose leaders are insulated from removal by the President. Download this new McGuireWoods white paper, which addresses those open questions and issues, and the future implications…

The Healthcare Investor

Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: GTCR Partnership Acquires Citra Health

By Amber Walsh

July 1, 2020

GTCR has announced its Cedar Gate Technologies management partnership with CEO David Snow has acquired Citra Health Solutions. Citra Health, based in Morrisville, N.C., is a provider of capitation management software solutions. GTCR, based in Chicago, pursues a wide range of investments in several industries, including healthcare. Founded in 1980, the firm prefers to make more substantial investments from a dollars perspective. Cedar Gate Technologies, based in Greenwich, Conn., is a value-based care performance management…

The FCA Insider

Sixth Circuit Holds Qui Tam Plaintiff a Government “Agent” for Public-Disclosure Bar

By David Pivnick, Brett Barnett & Timothy Fry

June 30, 2020

A recent Sixth Circuit opinion continues to “snuff [ ] out parasitic suits” brought under the False Claims Act (“FCA”) through the public-disclosure bar. In U.S. ex rel. Holloway v. Heartland Hospice, Inc. (June 3, 2020 opinion), the court affirmed the lower court’s entry of summary judgment in favor of a hospice provider on grounds that the relator’s claims were barred in light of prior public disclosures of the underlying allegations contained in…

Take Stock: Federal Policy Watch

Washington Healthcare Update | June 29, 2020

By Stephanie Kennan & Mariam Eatedali

June 29, 2020

Hearings Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP): “COVID-19: Lessons Learned to Prepare for the Next Pandemic” Tuesday, June 23, 2020: The Senate HELP committee held a hearing to cover the lessons learned from shortcomings of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in preparation for the future. Find more details on the hearing here. Why is this important: According to the witness panel at the hearing, the U.S. was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic…

The Healthcare Investor

A View From the Top: David Young of Physicians Endoscopy

By Holly Buckley, Geoff Cockrell & Amber Walsh

June 29, 2020

Please see below for the latest installment of our interview series, A View From the Top. This series features interviews with C-suite leadership of private equity-backed portfolio companies. This installment features David Young of Physicians Endoscopy. To recommend a leader for a future interview, email Holly Buckley at hbuckley@mcguirewoods.com. Q: What was the best advice you received about running a business successfully? David Young: The best advice I have received is to make sure…

Take Stock: Federal Policy Watch

Emerging Technologies Washington Update – Coronavirus Response

By Michael Drobac, Amanda Armistead, Greg Walden, Greg Guice, Nicole Cohen, Eli Levine & Taylor Gayton

June 25, 2020

The Latest A number of House and Senate committees are continuing to hold hearings examining various issues related to COVID-19, including its impact on certain sectors and communities and the federal government response. This week, committees looked at issues ranging from how the pandemic has exposed and widened inequities in education, health, and the workforce and wealth inequity to the child care crisis, healthy air travel, VA telehealth, preparing for the next …

Subject to Inquiry

Still Standing: SEC Disgorgement Survives with Limitations

By E. Andrew Southerling, Louis D. Greenstein, Nathan R. Pittman & Gilbert C. Dickey

June 24, 2020

In Liu v. SEC, the Supreme Court answered the question that remained following its 2017 opinion in Kokesh v. SEC: “whether, and to what extent, the SEC may seek ‘disgorgement’ in the first instance through its power to award ‘equitable relief’” in a federal district court action under Section 21(d)(5) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. § 78u(d)(5)). Liu v. SEC, No. 18-1501 at 1. In an opinion written by Justice Sotomayor (who…

The Healthcare Investor

Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Lightyear Makes Majority Investment in HPOne

By Geoff Cockrell

June 24, 2020

Lightyear Capital has announced that affiliated investment funds will acquire an indirect controlling stake in Health Plan One (HPOne). HPOne, based in Trumbull, Conn., is a digital insurance broker focused on the Medicare market. Lightyear, based in New York, is private equity firm focused on financial services in healthcare and other sectors. Founded in 2000, Lightyear prefers to make control investments in North America-based middle-market companies. The transaction is expected to close in…

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Washington Healthcare Update | July 6, 2020

Emerging Technologies Washington Update – Coronavirus Response

U.S. Supreme Court’s CFPB Decision: Implications for Consumer Finance and Other Agencies

Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: GTCR Partnership Acquires Citra Health

Sixth Circuit Holds Qui Tam Plaintiff a Government “Agent” for Public-Disclosure Bar

Washington Healthcare Update | June 29, 2020

A View From the Top: David Young of Physicians Endoscopy

Emerging Technologies Washington Update – Coronavirus Response

Still Standing: SEC Disgorgement Survives with Limitations

Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: Lightyear Makes Majority Investment in HPOne

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