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1 month ago | 
jdsupra.com | Sarah Barth |Jaclyn Freshman |Brett Friedman
On May 9, 2025, New York State (“NYS”) Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation enacting the State Fiscal Year 2025-26 budget into law.1 Notably omitted from the final budget legislation was Part S of the Health and Mental Hygiene Article VII legislation, as proposed in Governor Hochul’s executive budget, which corresponded to an initiative that would have substantially broadened NYS’s existing health care transaction law.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Sarah Barth |Jaclyn Freshman |Brett Friedman
This month, nearly two years after the passage of New York’s health care transaction law, N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 4550 et seq. (described in our previous Alert), the New York State Department of Health (“DOH”) released guidance clarifying its reporting requirements.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Brett Friedman |Benjamin Wilson |Sharon Jaquez
On this third episode of Ropes & Gray's Health Care
Transaction Laws Unwrapped podcast series, health
care attorneys Brett Friedman, Ben Wilson and Sharon Jaquez discuss
the latest updates to state health care transaction laws on the
East Coast. The team explores recent developments in New York,
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, examining the
implications of new and pending legislation on health care
transactions.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Brett Friedman |Benjamin Wilson |Sharon Jaquez
Click here to listen to the audioOn this third episode of Ropes & Gray’s Health Care Transaction Laws Unwrapped podcast series, health care attorneys Brett Friedman, Ben Wilson and Sharon Jaquez discuss the latest updates to state health care transaction laws on the East Coast. The team explores recent developments in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, examining the implications of new and pending legislation on health care transactions.
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May 29, 2024 | 
butterfieldgrain.com | Brett Friedman
By Brett Friedman, Winhall Risk Analytics, OptionMetrics ContributorShort term commodity price developments are in disagreement with longer term market-based forecasts. Although this is often the case, as markets are buffeted by short term events that aren’t necessarily related to long term factors, the current disparity seems glaringly large and has important implications. Two fundamentally based interpretations are possible.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
moneyshow.com | Brett Friedman
The start of the year always brings predictions of what the new year will bring, states Brett Friedman, Winhall Risk Analytics/OptionMetrics Contributor.
Among the most popular Wall Street auguries is the so-called “January Barometer," or the belief that the market's investment performance in January is indicative of the rest of the year. First popularized in 1972 by Yale Hirsch, the author of the Stock Trader’s Almanac, it resurfaces annually in the financial press.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Brett Friedman |Drew M. Clary |Stephanie Webster |David O. Ault
On January 9, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services ("CMS") announced its approval of the New York Health Equity Reform
("NYHER") waiver amendment under Section 1115(a) of the Social Security Act. CMS
approval of NYHER follows a waiver design process that spanned
almost three years and required more than 17 months of negotiations
between CMS and the New York State Department of Health
("DOH").
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
today.westlaw.com | Brett Friedman |Drew M. Clary |Stephanie Webster |David O. Ault
(February 6, 2024) - Ropes & Gray attorneys Brett Friedman, Drew Clary, Stephanie Webster and David Ault discuss the recently approved New York state Medicaid program waiver amendment, which focuses on health equity and includes funding for health-related social needs like food and housing.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
moneyshow.com | Brett Friedman
The logic is simple: first, as the US dollar appreciates, the cost of oil in local currencies increases, and second, higher prices reduce demand and, ultimately, prices, states Brett Friedman, Winhall Risk Analytics/OptionMetrics Contributor.
This relationship seems to be generally accepted and is frequently mentioned in articles and discussions regarding oil prices. Despite its ubiquity, is it still true?
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | Brett Friedman |Benjamin Wilson |Stephanie Webster
On this fifth and final episode of Ropes & Gray's
Recent Trends & Developments in Health Care Joint
Ventures podcast series, health care partner Stephanie Webster
moderates a discussion with health care partners Brett Friedman and
Ben Wilson on two alternative partnership models for health care
joint ventures: clinically integrated networks and professional
services agreement models.
