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Wade Emmert
Wade’s Health Law Highlights for October 14, 2025
Health systems possess the expertise to monitor AI tools but lack the infrastructure to implement comprehensive governance at scale. The Joint Commission and Coalition for Health…
Wade’s Health Law Highlights for October 7, 2025
Texas Medical Board now requires physicians to obtain structured consent before providing complementary and alternative medicine therapies. Effective January 2025, the rules apply to any non-conventional…
Wade’s Health Law Highlights for September 30, 2025
Shadow AI tools used without IT oversight create security risks that cost healthcare organizations $200,000 more per data breach than sanctioned AI incidents. IBM’s 2025 Cost…
Wade’s Health Law Highlights for September 23, 2025
The FDA announced a crackdown on direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising on September 9, following a presidential memorandum directing action against misleading advertising practices. The agency issued thousands…
Texas’s New IV Therapy Law: What Patients, Clinics, and Clinicians Need to Know
After a highly publicized death linked to an IV infusion at a Texas spa in 2023, state lawmakers moved to bring clearer rules and stronger oversight…
Wade’s Health Law Highlights for September 16, 2025
The OIG issued a favorable advisory opinion for a grant-funded family-powered therapy arrangement. The Company’s mission is to provide care for individuals with a certain disorder,…
Wade’s Health Law Highlights for September 2, 2025
Hospital associations challenge new merger notification rules as burdensome and unnecessary. The Federal Trade Commission under Lina Khan adopted changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification requirements that…
New Restrictions on Non-Compete Agreements for Physicians and Health Care Practitioners
Effective September 1, 2025, Texas Senate Bill 1318 (SB 1318) will substantially alter the landscape for non-compete agreements involving physicians and other health care practitioners. This…
Wade’s Health Law Highlights for August 26, 2025
Hospital participation in Medicare accountable care organizations failed to reduce emergency department admission rates, length of stay, or costs for unplanned admissions, according to a new…
