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
Texas Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Youth Gender Transitions. It’s the Largest State With Such a Law
Summary of article from AP News, by Jim Vertuno, Andrew Demillo: The Texas Supreme Court upheld a state law banning gender-affirming medical…
Why Nurses Are Protesting AI
Summary of article from Healthcare Brew, by Tom McKay: The National Nurses United (NNU) is protesting the increasing use of AI in…
Blockchain-Based Healthcare Credentialing: A Solution to High Costs and Administrative Burdens
Summary of article from Cureus, by Ebenezer Chinedu-Eneh, Priya Ramaswamy, Patrick E. Farmer: The healthcare sector faces significant inefficiencies in its credentialing…
Federal District Court Finds Private-Insurer Relator Can Proceed with False Claims Action
Summary of article from The FCA Insider, by Michael Podberesky, Brett Barnett, Stephen Tagert: The U.S. District Court for the District of…
Six Months to Go: HIPAA Privacy Rule Changes Require Additional Diligence
Summary of article from Taft Privacy & Data Security Insights, by Scot Ganow: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has…
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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…