Top Ten 2025: The Evolving Landscape of State Health Care Transaction Review Laws

Based on AHLA's annual Health Law Connections article, this special series brings together thought leaders from across the health law field to discuss the top ten issues of 2025. In the tenth episode, Ragini Acharya, Partner, Husch Blackwell LLP, speaks with William S. Richmond, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, about the latest developments related to state health care transaction review laws. They discuss the growth in the number of states introducing new or expanding current health care transaction review laws; trends related to notice versus consent; the types of transactions these laws apply to; and how parties to transactions should navigate the variation in state timing requirements, contingency planning, and confidentiality of deal terms. From AHLA’s Business Law and Governance Practice Group.Watch the conversation here.Essential Legal Updates, Now in AudioAHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal EducationLearn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.