For anyone working in the health and life sciences industries and looking to complete a few final CLE hours before the end of 2025, Reed Smith will be hosting its annual Virtual Life Sciences CLE Week, taking place from November 3 through November 7, 2025.
This week-long event will feature a series of timely and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has announced a Health Tech Ecosystem initiative, developed in response to a May 2025 request for information (“RFI”) to solicit suggestions from stakeholders on ways to modernize the nation’s digital health ecosystem.
The initiative focuses on two main areas: (1) promoting a CMS Interoperability Framework to easily…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced the launch of the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) Model – a six-year pilot program designed to reduce Medicare spending on select “wasteful (low-value) services shown to have little to no clinical value.” The WISeR Model will run from January 1, 2026, through December…
The recently enacted 2025 Reconciliation law in its initial iteration had within it a 10 year moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence (AI). The provision was stripped out of the final law by an amendment proposed by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R. TN) who, at the time of the debate, decried the inability of the…
Reed Smith has announced the dates and topics for it’s 11th annual health care conference from March 17-21, 2024. The conference will be conducted entirely virtually this year with CLE webinars offered throughout the week on important and timely topics for the health care industry.
The schedule of the sessions is below, all of the…
The California Attorney General’s Office (AG) unsurprisingly takes an expansive view of how the development, sale, and use of artificial intelligence technology (AI) in healthcare could lead to potential violations of existing California laws. In a recent legal advisory the AG highlights specific areas healthcare organizations should focus on as they develop, train, improve, and…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), through its Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”), recently issued a “Dear Colleague” letter, Ensuring Nondiscrimination Through the Use of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and Other Emerging Technologies, which emphasizes the importance of fairness and equity in AI use in patient care decision support tools (e.g., clinical…
California’s new law, SB 1120, set to take effect on January 1, 2025, regulates how health care service plans (HCSPs) and disability insurers use automated decision-making tools, such as artificial intelligence, to analyze medical necessity in utilization reviews affecting California enrollees. Compared to federal guidelines, this law is more prescriptive, requiring HCSPs and disability…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published its Plan for Promoting Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in Automated and Algorithmic Systems by State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Governments in the Administration of Public Benefits (AI Plan for State and Local Governments). It shows the agency’s current thinking on managing risk from…
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in research and development and the research and development of AI solutions themselves create far reaching legal and policy questions in the clinical research context.
In one of the latest installments of Reed Smith’s video series “AI explained”, Reed Smith attorneys Nancy Bonifant Halstead and Sarah Thompson Schick…
