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
US Enforcement of Emergency Abortion Rule Halted in Texas
From Bloomberg Law, by Mary Anne Pazanowski and Ian Lopez: The Fifth Circuit has ruled that the Biden administration’s guidance document, intended…
OCR Doubles Down: Two Settlements in Two Months for Two Common Cybersecurity Issues
From Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, by Ike Willett & Cory Brennan: On December 7, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and…
FDA Warns Against Unauthorized Fat-Melting Injection Treatments
From NBC News, by Berkeley Lovelace Jr.: The FDA has issued a warning about the dangers of using unauthorized versions of fat-dissolving…
FTC Seeks to Put Private Equity Roll-Up Strategies to Sleep With its Case Against U.S. Anesthesia Partners
From Winston & Strawn, by Neely Agin and Hannah Gallagher, writing for AHLA (Subscription): FTC and DOJ have increased regulatory scrutiny on…
Private Investors and Digital Health Attracting Oig Attention: General Compliance Program Guidance to Watch
From McDermott, Will & Emery, by Tony Maida, Dale C. Van Demark, Monica Wallace: The US Department of Health and Human Services…
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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…