Wade’s Health Law Highlights for August 11, 2026
Read the issue: Wade’s Health Law Highlights for August 11, 2026False Claims Act settlements and judgments announced in the first half of 2026 total more than $1.8 billion The total includes two nine-figure Medicare Advantage resolutions and a customs duties settlement exceeding half a billion dollars, the largest of its kind. As…
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Wade’s Health Law Highlights for May 26, 2026
CMS has imposed six-month, nationwide moratoria on new Medicare enrollment for hospices and home health agencies, blocking both initial enrollment applications and certain changes in majority…
Wade’s Health Law Highlights for May 19, 2026
CMS has imposed six-month, nationwide moratoria on new Medicare enrollment for hospices and home health agencies (HHAs), blocking initial enrollment applications and certain changes in majority…
Wade’s Health Law Highlights for May 12, 2026
The Justice Department’s Civil Division launched the FOCUS (Fraud Oversight through Careful Use of Statistics) initiative to formalize its relationship with data miners filing qui tam…
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Peptide therapy has moved from elite biohacker circles into mainstream wellness offerings, and the marketing pitches arriving in your inbox suggest the legal questions are settled.…
Wade’s Health Law Highlights for May 5, 2026
Fragmented identity systems across healthcare force patients to maintain separate credentials for patient portals, EHRs, pharmacies, PBM claims platforms, and insurer authorization — multiplying security risks…
Wade’s Health Law Highlights for April 28, 2026
The HHS Office of Inspector General will not impose sanctions on a Medicare Advantage organization that proposes to share a percentage of its savings with employer…
Wade’s Health Law Highlights for April 21, 2026
The Texas Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General recovered more than $95.7 million from home health providers between December 1, 2025, and February 28,…
Wade’s Health Law Highlights for April 14, 2026
Aetna agreed to pay $115 million to settle allegations that it manipulated diagnosis codes to inflate risk scores for Medicare Advantage enrollees. A former risk-adjustment coding…
Wade’s Health Law Highlights for April 7, 2026
Private equity firms have invested over $1 trillion in debt-financed healthcare transactions over the past decade, with 93% of healthcare companies carrying speculative debt being private…
