Wade’s Health Law Highlights for September 8, 2026
Read the issue: Wade’s Health Law Highlights for September 8, 2026Texas hospitals began losing $27 million a day in Medicaid funding on September 1 after CMS withheld approval of about $9.8 billion tied to the Comprehensive Hospital Increase Reimbursement Program. CHIRP matches roughly $4 billion a year in local hospital taxes with…
Recent Health Law Highlights Issues
The TDPSA: A New Sheriff in Town for Texas Data Controllers and Processors
Summary of article from Vinson & Elkins LLP, by Maggie Eller, Briana Falcon, Jeffrey Johnston, Michael Kurzer: The Texas Data Privacy and…
Does HIPAA Apply to Veterinarians?
Summary of article from The HIPAA Journal, by Steve Adler: HIPAA does not apply to veterinarians because they do not conduct electronic…
The Impact of the EU AI Act on the Healthcare Sector
Summary of article from DataGuidance, by Michael Borrelli: The EU AI Act aims to regulate AI systems within the EU, categorizing them…
No Surprises Act Implementation Faces Challenges
Summary of article from Proskauer Rose LLP, by D. Austin Rettew, Vinay Kohli: Two district courts have issued conflicting rulings on the…
You Can’t Surf With a Ventilator. The Problems with AI in Health Care, and Some Solutions
Summary of article from California Health Report, by Jennifer McLelland: The author tested three major AI chatbots—Google Gemini, Meta Llama 3, and…
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Before You Add Peptides to Your Practice
Peptide therapy has moved from elite biohacker circles into mainstream wellness offerings, and the marketing pitches arriving in your inbox suggest the…
HIPAA Update – Q1 2026
The first quarter of 2026 has brought a wave of regulatory activity, enforcement actions, and emerging compliance challenges under HIPAA. From a…
No, You Can’t Just Not Take Medicare: What Every Chiropractor Needs to Know
A growing number of chiropractors are moving away from insurance panels in favor of cash-pay practice models built around direct-pay patient relationships.…
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…