Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont recently signed into law Public Act No. 26-68 (the Act), which makes targeted but significant changes to the Department of Public Health’s (DPH) enforcement authority for health care licensure and certification violations by increasing potential fines and creating criminal liability for certain unlicensed operation of health care institutions and unlicensed provision of
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Massachusetts Expands FCA Liability To Owners and Private Equity Investors
By Danielle Tangorre, Conor Duffy, Leslie Levinson & Guest Contributor on
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…
New York Proposes Regulatory Overhaul for HealthCare Transactions with a Focus on Investor-Backed Healthcare Transactions
By Danielle Tangorre, Leslie Levinson & Ivy Miller on
Posted in Healthcare Transactions
Proposed legislation from the New York State Executive Budget for 2024 includes significant changes to the state’s regulatory approach and authority over healthcare transactions. New York is following a trend on the state level regarding concern over the consolidation of the healthcare marketplace and investor-backed practices and how such transactions should be reviewed. Such proposal follows states like California, Oregon, and Washington. The proposal creates a new statutory article to review “material transactions” and has made changes to the certificate of need process for new and existing entities.
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