Author: Madeline Henschel

Madeline counsels clients in the health care industry with respect to a wide range of transactional and health care regulatory compliance matters. Madeline helps healthcare organizations and providers navigate complex regulatory challenges and transactional matters, with a focus on adapting to evolving laws in digital health, telehealth, and provider operations.

Indiana Notification of Health Care Transactions Law Takes Effect

On July 1, 2024, Indiana’s new health care transactions notification law takes effect.[1] The law is designed to increase government oversight of mergers and acquisitions involving health care entities. Indiana joins a growing number of states that have passed similar legislation implementing notice requirements and increasing antitrust evaluations for certain health care transactions.[2] The following...

Minnesota Supreme Court Holds That The Minnesota Health Records Act Allows Release of Health Records For Permitted Purposes Under HIPAA

On October 11, 2023 the Minnesota Supreme Court issued an opinion in Schneider v. Children’s Health Care holding that the Minnesota Health Records Act (“MHRA”) provision allowing health care providers to release health records when there is “specific authorization in law” encompasses all operative law in Minnesota, including permitted disclosures under the federal HIPAA privacy...