In response to the October 1, 2025 shutdown of the federal government, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued an MLN Connects Special Edition email providing an Update on Medicare Operations: Telehealth, Claims Processing, and…
Executive Order 14117 (Prevent Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and U.S. Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern) and its implementing regulations establish the Data Security Program (DSP), a new compliance framework that…
Brokered deposits occupy a unique place in bank funding: widely used, strategically valuable, and nevertheless scrutinized. Banks often rely on them to supplement local deposit bases, particularly when core deposits slow or fail to keep pace with…
On August 7, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Guaranteed Fair Banking for All Americans”. The Executive Order prohibits financial institutions from engaging in “politicized or unlawful debanking” practices. “Debanking”…
The Section 184 Indian Home Loan Guarantee Program (the “Program”), administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”), provides a home mortgage product specifically tailored for Native American families and federally…
1. Potential Redistricting in Indiana
Hoosier lawmakers could return to Indianapolis sometime this fall to draw new Congressional maps, an extraordinary step prompted by calls from President Donald Trump and his allies to attempt to help elect more…
Any business, large or small, will be discomforted to open a letter or email and read that someone, somewhere, thinks that a product, service, or process that the business uses, makes, or sells infringes the sender’s patent claims. Included are…
After months of litigation and promises to issue a proposal, the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) has released long-awaited guidance on a new 340B pilot program. While the HRSA guidance provides clarity, it does not give…
Collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) brought by hourly, non-exempt employees against their employers have been a thorn in the side of employers in recent years. However, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued an…
This article is the 2nd in our series on H.R. 1 (known as the One Big Beautiful Bill or “OBBB”), in which we select specific areas of Medicaid impacted by the OBBB and drill down into the full weight and effect of not only the OBBB, but also recent…
On July 4, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed Public Law No. 119‑21, better known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The OBBBA introduces significant changes to the tax treatment of charitable contributions for both corporations and…
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law H.R. 1, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill (“OBBB”). While the OBBB is massive and the sections that address Medicaid topics are vast, this series of articles will select specific areas of Medicaid…
