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On February 25, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order titled “Making America Healthy Again by Empowering Patients with Clear, Accurate, and Actionable Healthcare Pricing Information” (the “2025 Order”) aiming to provide increased transparency regarding the pricing of health care services.  This executive order builds upon a prior executive order issued during President Trump’s first term in June 2019 (the “2019 Order”) that required hospitals to disclose to consumers pricing information for certain “shoppable” health care items and services and maintain this pricing information in accessible, consumer-friendly formats.  The 2019 Order also mandated the establishment of rules requiring health care providers, health insurance issuers and self-insured group health plans to facilitate consumer access to information concerning expected out-of-pocket costs for health care items and services prior to receiving care.Continue Reading Trump Administration Issues Executive Order Mandating Implementation and Enforcement of Health Care Pricing Transparency

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, deep learning concepts

President Biden issued an Executive Order on October 30, 2023 designed to place the United States at the forefront of law and regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Executive Order on the “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” creates binding disclosure requirements for companies that are either developing certain large language AI models or acquiring or possess sufficient computing power to run such AI implementations (as described below). The Order also establishes, and directs several federal agencies to establish, industry benchmarks for ensuring robust, reliable, repeatable and standardized testing and evaluations of AI systems, create new standards for AI safety and security.

The Order contains a lot of detailed provisions and initiatives involving nearly every government agency and calling for wide-ranging studies and recommendations on nearly every facet of AI, significant provisions of which are described below.

Of particular note, however, the President invoked the Defense Production Act to impose certain requirements that will go into effect 90 days after the issuance of the Order. There are two significant requirements going into effect affecting companies that employ AI models and companies that employ or provide large computing capacity that can be used for AI.Continue Reading President Biden Issues Far-Reaching Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence