Wade’s Health Law Highlights for August 25, 2026
Read the issue: Wade’s Health Law Highlights for August 25, 2026The Fifth Circuit, sitting en banc, vacated the federal regulations governing how insurers calculate the qualifying payment amount under the No Surprises Act. In Texas Medical Association v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, No. 23-40605, decided August 11, the…
Recent Health Law Highlights Issues
Privacy Abuses Will Meet ‘Full Force of the Law’ From New Texas Unit, Attorney General Says
Summary of article from The Record, by Joe Warminsky: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced the formation of a new data-privacy…
Lessons Learned From Walmart, Amazon, and Walgreens: Healthcare’s Retail Reset
Summary of article from D Magazine, by Will Maddox: Walmart, Amazon, and other major corporations have struggled to make a profitable venture…
Now is Not the Time to Relax: Record Settlements in Stark Law and False Claims Cases
Summary of article from Lathrop GPM, by Jesse A. Berg: In May 2024, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) settled a…
Employers Must Keep Reproductive Health Information About Their Plan Participants Private Under New HIPAA Privacy Rule
Summary of article from Akerman LLP, by Beth Alcalde, Elizabeth Hodge: The newly updated HIPAA Privacy Rule, effective June 25, 2024, provides…
How Generative AI Will Change Jobs In Healthcare
Summary of article by Bernard Marr: Generative AI is poised to revolutionize healthcare by assisting in diagnosis and treatment, personalizing care, 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…