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As state legislatures kick off their 2026 legislative sessions, FSMB takes a look back on highlights from the 2025 session with a “wrapped”-style summary.

On Tuesday, Utah announced it launched a groundbreaking AI pilot program, in collaboration with health-tech startup Doctronic, that allows the AI system to handle “routine prescription renewals

On December 11, President Trump issued an EO, “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence,” setting forth the Administration’s AI policy goals, which

State legislatures won’t officially convene for their 2026 sessions until January, but more than half are already prefiling bills.

The Conscience Protections for Medical Residents Act (S. 3238), introduced by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), would prohibit residency programs from requiring opt-out abortion training – which

Congress is on recess until December 1, and when it returns, the Senate will have 15 working days and the House just 12 before the end of the year.

On November 5, CMS announced that all 50 states submitted applications for the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program, created to help states improve healthcare access, quality,

On November 9, eight senators in the Democratic caucus agreed to vote for cloture on H.R. 5371, starting the sequence of events that ended the longest government shutdown in American history

On November 3, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers released a “statement of principles” outlining a potential compromise to extend Obamacare subsidies, the main sticking point in the ongoing

As the Federal government shutdown surpasses the four-week mark, uncertainty looms over both essential services and funding.