Healthcare Regulatory

On May 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a nationwide enrollment moratorium on new Medicare hospice and home health agency (HHA) participants. The announcement follows the introduction of Rhode Island House Bill 8214 in February 2026, which, if enacted, would freeze new state licensure for home care, home nursing care, and hospice providers for at least five years. Though coincidentally close in time, the two actions are driven by fundamentally different policy rationales and carry very different consequences for providers, investors, and patients.

Register for our webinar, AI in Your Organization: Are Your Contracts Keeping Up?, on May 19 at noon CT, presented by Kris Kappel and Maggie Mannebach.

Artificial intelligence is no longer an emerging technology—it is embedded in the mainstream enterprise software, platforms, and vendor services that organizations rely on every day. In many cases, organizations are already using AI without realizing it because vendors have quietly integrated it into existing products. That reality raises an urgent question: are your contracts keeping pace?

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A Final Rule updating Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 recently published by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued new mandates stipulating that every facility, program, or activity with 15 or more employees that receives HHS funding will need to comply with new digital accessibility guidelines.

To align its requirements…

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On April 24, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) published a final rule to adopt the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.1 Level AA (WCAG 2.1) as the compliance standard for web and mobile app accessibility for Title II entities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

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This is the fourth in a six-part series on incentive design, deal structure, and how these issues surface in transactions and enforcement. Other relevant topics will be discussed in our upcoming presentation, Physician Owner Mindset, Compliance Guardrails: Growth Without the Gotchas, to be given at the American Alliance of Orthopaedic Executives on Tuesday, April 21.

This is the first in a six-part series on incentive design, deal structure, and how these issues surface in transactions and enforcement. Other relevant topics will be discussed in our upcoming presentation, Physician Owner Mindset, Compliance Guardrails: Growth Without the Gotchas, to be given at the American Alliance of Orthopaedic Executives on Tuesday, April 21.

This post is part of our The Top 2025 Privacy and Security Issues Still Shaping Healthcare series, in which our team of attorneys provides essential strategies and insights for healthcare privacy and security.

In December 2024, the FTC announced two separate settlements against Mobilewalla, Inc. and Gravy Analytics, Inc., asserting that the two companies were unlawfully tracking and selling sensitive location data from users without consent, including data related to visits to health centers. 

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This post is part of our The Top 2025 Privacy and Security Issues Still Shaping Healthcare series, in which our team of attorneys provides essential strategies and insights for healthcare privacy and security.

On March 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a sweeping reorganization under the Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative. The plan consolidates 28 divisions into 15, reduces the number of regional offices from 10 to 5, and introduces a new entity: the Administration for a Healthy America (AHA). This transformation aims to modernize HHS’s structure and operations, improve efficiency, and strengthen oversight across federal health programs.

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This is the third in a series of articles designed to provide SXSW and LSI USA ’26 attendees and other MedTech professionals with practical considerations for efficiently executing mission-critical life science deals. On March 15, during SXSW, Husch Blackwell’s healthcare team will host two panels, bringing together founders and investors from healthcare, technology, and early-stage companies for candid discussion, practical insights, and plenty of time to connect.

Register here.