Monitoring the Pulse of Health Care and Life Sciences
This post was co-authored with Paul Palma, legal intern at Robinson+Cole. Paul is not admitted to practice law.
On June 30, 2025, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Public Act No. 25-168 (PA 25-168) (the Act), Connecticut’s Budget Bill for the period between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2027. The Act includes two…
This post was co-authored with Ivy Miller, legal intern at Robinson+Cole. Ivy is admitted to practice in Massachusetts.
On June 25, 2025, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Public Act No. 25-97, “An Act Concerning Various Revisions to the Public Health Statutes” (the Act). The Act includes a wide range of provisions affecting…
This post was co-authored with Ivy Miller, legal intern at Robinson+Cole. Ivy is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts.
On June 11, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion 25-03 (the Advisory Opinion), in which OIG approved of a proposed arrangement under which a management support…
This post was co-authored with Ivy Miller, legal intern at Robinson+Cole. Ivy is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts.
The Department of Justice has launched a number of enforcement actions targeting pharmacies for alleged violations of the False Claims Act (FCA). Recently, Walgreens has been the subject of two noteworthy government settlements related to alleged…
On May 22, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took a series of actions to promote enhanced price transparency compliance by hospitals and identify challenges thereto, in order to inform future price transparency enforcement activities and policies. These actions were taken in furtherance of the President’s February 2025 Executive Order No. 14221…
This post is co-authored by Seth Orkand, co-chair of Robinson+Cole’s Government Enforcement and White-Collar Defense Team and Paul Palma, law intern at Robinson+Cole. Paul is not admitted to practice law.
On March 14, 2025, as part of a spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, Congress extended COVID-era telehealth “waivers” applicable to Medicare…
*This post was authored with Paul Palma, law intern at Robinson+Cole. Paul is not admitted to practice law.
On March 3, 2025, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed a law establishing a new process for hospitals in bankruptcy to apply for an “emergency certificate of need” (CON) to approve a transfer of ownership. The law, titled …
On February 25, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients with Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information” (the 2025 Order). The 2025 Order directs federal agencies to take various actions to prioritize enforcement of healthcare price transparency requirements for hospitals and health plans “to support…
This post is co-authored by Seth Orkand, co-chair of Robinson+Cole’s Government Enforcement and White-Collar Defense Team.
Massachusetts has expanded regulatory oversight of health care transactions by imposing False Claims Act liability on health care owners and investors for changes including failure to disclose violations. On January 8, 2025, Governor Maura Healey signed…
This post is co-authored by Seth Orkand, co-chair of Robinson+Cole’s Government Enforcement and White-Collar Defense Team.
Under a new 2025 law, Massachusetts is one of the first in the nation to broaden its state False Claims Act (FCA) to require disclosures by investors and owners of health care entities. On January 8…
