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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…
On June 30, 2025 Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed a bill implementing the state budget through June 30, 2027, Public Act No. 25-168 (PA-168). PA-168, among other things, contains changes to the state’s Certificate of Need (CON) program.
Termination of Services – Effective from Passage
In Connecticut, hospitals generally must obtain CON approval…
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 in Massachusetts.
On June 25, 2025, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Public Act No. 25-96, “An Act Concerning the Department of Public Health’s Recommendations Regarding Various Revisions to the Public Health Statutes” (the Act). The Act…
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…
On June 9, 2025, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Public Act No. 25-28, “An Act Concerning Access to Reproductive Health Care” (the Act). The Act codifies under Connecticut state law the ability of minors to access reproductive health care services without the need to obtain parental consent, including services related to pregnancy…
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…
On April 29, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion upholding the formula the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) utilized to calculate Medicare hospitals’ disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payment adjustments, denying a challenge brought by hospitals seeking higher DSH reimbursement. In Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Kennedy, No. 23-715 (S.
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 …
