Health Law Alert

In December 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced a new payment model called ACCESS, which stands for Advancing Chronic Care with Effective, Scalable Solutions. ACCESS uses outcome-aligned payments, which are a recurring payment for managing a patient’s qualifying condition, with payments tied to achieving measurable health […]

The False Claims Act (“FCA”) is a tool used against those who knowingly and falsely claim money from the United States government or who knowingly fail to reimburse the government. The FCA imposes treble damages and penalties and continues to be the weapon of choice when fighting health care fraud. […]

Imagine this hypothetical scenario—a hospital has individual employment agreements with physicians.  The Board has kept a hands-off approach, focusing mainly on the impact to the bottom line, and leaves it to the CEO, to negotiate these contracts.  The CEO has negotiated each contract as one-off contracts, doing what is needed […]

In the fourth quarter of 2025, the Illinois legislature passed, and the governor signed into law, a state privacy law as a part of a larger state legislative response to federal immigration policy. The “Health Care Sanctity and Privacy Act” (the “Act”) includes several new policy and procedural requirements for […]

By February 16, 2026, all HIPAA Covered Entities, including all employer-sponsored group health plans, must adopt an updated Notice of Privacy Practices. The Office for Civil Rights published a final rule updating various provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule in 2024. While much of the rule was vacated by a […]