The federal government is pursuing restrictions on gender-affirming care through a coordinated, multifaceted enforcement strategy.
For health care providers, understanding both the tools being deployed and the methods providers are using to respond is essential to compliance planning.
Jennifer Nelson Carney, Member of the Firm, examines the federal enforcement mechanisms and discusses how health care organizations are responding to coordinated federal challenges.
On the final day of the American Health Law Association’s Annual Meeting in New York, officials from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) gave their own take on their agencies’ ramped-up enforcement efforts regarding health care fraud in mid-2026.
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