Insights

New York– October 17, 2018: Crowell & Moring LLP is launching a New York Health Care Practice with the arrival of nine highly regarded lawyers from one of the region’s top health care practices.

The regulatory environment for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is shifting rapidly, creating challenges and uncertainties for providers across the country—and especially those in New York. While the Trump administration has rolled back federal nurse staffing mandates, state-level requirements remain in full force, and new federal ownership disclosure rules are set to take effect in January 2026. Even as federal enforcement slows, state regulators appear primed to intensify oversight of nursing home operators by enhancing Certificate of Need (CON) review processes.

On July 21, 2023, the Department of Health Care Access and Information of the California Health and Human Services Agency released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”) with regulations that would implement new financial and ownership transparency requirements for skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) in California.

On March 2, 2022, the Supreme Court of the State of New York for New York County dismissed the petition by the New York Attorney General (“NYAG”) for dissolution of the National Rifle Association of America (“NRA”), finding that the NYAG’s allegations of NRA leadership corruption, if proven, would not constitute public harm justifying the “corporate death penalty”. In August 2020, the NYAG filed a complaint against the NRA and four NRA officers, alleging that the officers had diverted millions of dollars for their personal benefit, among other misconduct. In addition to the noteworthy effort to dissolve the NRA itself, the NYAG’s complaint sought restitution and other monetary relief from the officers, as well as their removal from NRA employment and permanent injunctions against their serving other not-for-profit or charitable organizations in New York. The decision allows the case to move forward with respect to fourteen remaining claims against the NRA and its leaders.