Lexology January 29, 2025
Key Takeaways:
- New and expanded categories of investors and transactions (including Private Equity) are now subject to review by state authorities.
- Broader financial and data disclosures pre- and post-transaction are now required.
- Substantially increased penalties for failure to disclose required information to state authorities.
- There is a new prohibition on acute-care hospitals leasing their main campuses from real estate investment trusts.
- There is a new restriction on the repossession of leased medical equipment from certain health care facilities.
- Certain urgent care services and office-based surgery are now subject to state licensure.
- Massachusetts False Claims Act liability is expanded to include health care stakeholders with an “ownership or investment interest” in a person or entity that violates the law.