Amedisys, a major provider of home health and hospice care, has agreed to pay a $1.1 million civil penalty to settle allegations that it violated the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act during the antitrust review of its pending $3.3 billion acquisition by
On May 12, President Trump signed an executive order entitled “Delivering Most-Favored Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients” (the “Order”). At the core of the executive order is a commitment to most-favored nation (“MFN”) pricing for drugs
The budget reconciliation bill passed by the House of Representatives on May 22, 2025 (the “Reconciliation Bill”), contains a number of provisions targeting tax-exempt entities. While these provisions do not specifically target or call out hospitals, they may apply to
On 12 March, we hosted an event in our London office where lawyers Mark Yeo, Jon Lent, David Naylor, Nicola Smith, Victoria Leigh and Nick Green discussed: decarbonisation in healthcare, healthcare with the new government with geopolitical insights, trends in
On Monday, April 7, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated CMS’s recently adopted rule imposing minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities participating in Medicaid or Medicare. On April 22, 2024, CMS announced this final
On Monday, March 31, a court in the Eastern District of Texas found unlawful and vacated the Food and Drug Administration’s 2024 Rule regulating as “devices” under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”), certain laboratory-developed test (“LDTs”) used to diagnose,
In its first major attempt to reform the Affordability Care Act (“ACA”), the Trump Administration issued a proposed rule on March 10, 2025 (“Proposed Rule”) amending regulations governing insurance coverages subject to the ACA.[1] Public comments on the
Squire Patton Boggs has launched its US Executive Actions Monitor, a site dedicated to tracking executive actions issued by President Donald Trump since taking office.
We offer an overview of all executive orders, providing summaries and analysis of their potential impacts,
Summary
On December 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“HHS”) published its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) titled HIPAA Security Rule to Strengthen the Cybersecurity of Electronic Protected Health Information. HHS seeks
In response to the shifting legal landscape around reproductive health care, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) finalized amendments to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to strengthen privacy protections for highly sensitive protected health
