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Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. 1. The North Carolina Senate passed a bill that partially repeals its Certificate of Need (“CON”) law for facilities in rural areas and for certain medical specialties. The bill is headed to the... READ MORE

NATIONAL 4 benefits of behavioral health partnership for hospital performance AHA presses for False Claims Act probes to target payers over Medicare Advantage denials ASCs fight to recruit staff as jobless claims hit historic low CMS has cited 69 hospitals for noncompliance with worker vaccine mandate Court OKs denying coverage for mental health, substance-use... READ MORE

Hall Render attorney Ritu Kaur Cooper has been elected to serve a one-year term on the American Health Law Association (“AHLA”) Board of Directors beginning July 1, 2022. “I am honored to be selected by my peers to serve on the AHLA Board,” Ritu said. “AHLA has played an integral role in my growth... READ MORE

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. Last week, North Carolina legislators proposed a bill that would alter the state’s Certificate of Need (“CON”) program. If passed, the bill would make it easier for certain providers to open new health... READ MORE

A recent decision from the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted employers some modest flexibility in conducting and relying on background checks for potential new hires covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”). The court made two key rulings: Employers have no obligation under the FCRA to provide job applicants with the... READ MORE

On May 23, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that significantly impacts a litigant’s right to compel arbitration and the circumstances that may result in a decision that a litigant has waived its right to compel arbitration. The Case In Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., an hourly employee at a fast food franchise... READ MORE

The Colorado legislature recently passed HB 22-1317, which dramatically revises Colorado’s statute governing covenants not to compete, C.R.S. § 8-2-113. The bill is expected to be signed by Governor Polis in the near future and take effect on August 10, 2022. Roughly half of the text in the noncompete law will be new, and... READ MORE

Our Health Care Real Estate Briefing is your comprehensive summary of weekly health care real estate highlights happening across the nation. Legislators and government agencies are looking for ways to deliver care in new settings. Last week, three U.S. Senators proposed a bill that would create a pilot program that would explore funding the... READ MORE

NATIONAL 5 things to know about HHS OIG’s patient harm report $15 million program will tackle behavioral health barriers in LTC AMA, organizations launch effort to apply equity lens to patient care AHA responds to report on hospitals’ requested price hikes to insurers AHA asks HHS to continue the public health emergency until conditions... READ MORE

On May 10, 2022, CMS published its proposed revisions to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System for 2023. CMS proposed two changes that would affect reimbursement for graduate medical education (“GME”) programs at teaching hospitals. First, CMS proposed to update the way that it calculates direct GME (“DGME”) payments for fellows in some training programs,... READ MORE