08.21.24
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) launched its anticipated Criminal Division Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (the “Pilot Program”), which went into effect on August 1, 2024, and will continue for three years.
05.14.24
Steward Health Care filed Chapter 11 on Monday May 6, 2024. Steward operates over 30 hospitals across Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas, and has more than 400 physician practice locations.
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to permeate the health care industry (and every other part of American life), the industry should be attentive to the risk of anticompetitive conduct arising from reliance on AI and cognizant of the watchful eyes of antitrust enforcers, including the ...
04.03.24
The American Medical Association, in collaboration with Manatt, recently published the Future of Health: The Emerging Landscape of Augmented Intelligence in Health Care.
02.22.24
Apparently in light of recent litigation against Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, on February 6, 2024, CMS published responses to frequently asked questions (FAQs) regarding the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence in coverage determinations.
02.01.24
In 2023, the DOJ continued its aggressive criminal antitrust enforcement agenda in health care, with mixed results in labor markets.
01.31.24
Merger challenges in pharmaceuticals, medtech and devices received a lot of attention and resources at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and State Attorneys General in 2023.
01.29.24
Antitrust enforcement in health care remained a high priority for the enforcers at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission in 2023.
12.20.23
On December 13, 2023, the Supreme Court announced its intention to review the August 16 ruling by the Fifth Circuit in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, et al. (AHM v. FDA), marking the Court’s first return to the abortion debate since overturning ...
11.29.23
Last week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reminded health plans and health insurance issuers that the deadline for electronically filing attestations of compliance with the prohibition against so-called gag clauses is fast approaching and that all attestations must be filed ...