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
CMS Issues Interim Rule in Response to State Medicaid Disenrollment Trend
From Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, by Shane Duer, Knicole Emanuel, Cara Ludwig: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…
What Cigna’s FCA Settlement Means for Other Medicare Advantage Plans
From HealthPayerIntelligence, Victoria Bailey: Cigna’s recent brush with False Claims Act violations serves as a reminder that Medicare Advantage organizations should be…
Two Dallas Physicians Charged in $12 Million Fraud Scheme
From D Magazine, by Will Maddox: Drs. Desi and Deno Barroga were indicted for allegedly receiving $12 million from fraudulent claims and…
The New Health Privacy Landscape—Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire
From Perkins Coie, by Stephanie Duchesneau, Susan Fahringer, Meredith Halama, Janis Kestenbaum: The legal landscape around health privacy has become much more…
Defending Executive Compensation in Nonprofit Health Care Systems
From American Health Law Association, by Albert Lin, Husch Blackwell LLP, and Connor Campbell, Weaver and Tidwell LLP: This article reviews the…
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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…
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…
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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…