Legal Compliance

A former congressman and hospital and medical school advocacy leaders outline which federal health programs could shift in a divided Washington.

A new HHS delegation lets CMS bar practices from Medicare and Medicaid, and no guidance says how it will share that power with OIG in settlements.

The survey revives a stalled bill that would end the physician agreements practices maintain for the nurse practitioners they employ.

CMS' 2027 fee schedule proposal would pay for RPM and RTM only when practice employees do the work. Here's what practices should review now.

Health care attorney Tatiana Melnik, J.D., says practices adopting artificial intelligence tools should reread their vendor contracts, train staff every week and plan for patients who decline an AI scribe.

Six national physician organizations warned that claims of AI superiority undermine patient trust, putting new attention on how practices set rules for AI use by clinicians and staff.

Texas laws on offshore records, AI disclosure, portal holds and gold cards are all in force now. Six checks worth an afternoon.

A $20.5 million CVS settlement over web tracking shows how AI and data tracking without patient consent invite lawsuits and enforcement.

Federal accessibility rules now cover practice websites, portals and online forms. The deadline moved, but the lawsuits and complaints didn't.

The 11th Circuit upheld the False Claims Act's qui tam provisions, and a $541.5 million settlement shows the value of self-disclosure.

CMS blocked $1.6 billion in suspect lab payments, and new rates land Jan. 1. Ten checks to run on your in-office lab first.

Most practices owing back wages never meant to. Here are the everyday pay habits that draw federal investigators and plaintiff lawyers.

HIPAA treats paid third-party access to patient records as marketing. Without a separate signed authorization, it can carry criminal penalties.

Florida has no corporate practice of medicine doctrine and skipped the 2026 wave of transaction-review bills. What's left is the Health Care Clinic Act, a fee-splitting statute and whatever the management agreement says.

The FTC, California and Utah sued Hims & Hers, alleging the telehealth company misled consumers on privacy and subscriptions.

The HIPAA Security Rule won't be final until July 2027, but the HIPAA Privacy Rule's final rule is expected in August 2026.

AI is transforming medicine faster than the legal and clinical frameworks governing it, raising new questions about liability, deskilling and the standard of care.

Rachel V. Rose, JD, MBA, breaks down the legal risks physicians face when investing in or dispensing from compounding pharmacies.