Company: WHWK
Filing Date: 2025-01-21
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001193125-25-009599
Chunk: 326

Company: Whitehawk Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-21
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 326
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| the Children’s Health Insurance Program to report annually to the CMS information related to certain payments and other transfers of value made to covered recipients, including licensed                   
 physicians (defined to include doctors, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists and chiropractors), certain non-physician healthcare professionals (such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners, among 
 others), and teaching hospitals, and information regarding ownership and investment interests held by physicians and their immediate family members;                                                        |

| • |     | analogous state and foreign law equivalents of each of the above federal laws, such as anti-kickback and false                                                                                                                                          
 claims laws which may apply to items or services reimbursed by any third-party payor, including commercial insurers or patients; state laws that require pharmaceutical manufacturers to comply with the industry’s voluntary compliance guidelines     
 and the applicable compliance guidance promulgated by the federal government or otherwise restrict payments that may be made to healthcare providers and other potential referral sources; state laws that require manufacturers to report information  
 related to payments and other transfers of value to physicians and other healthcare providers or marketing expenditures; consumer protection and unfair competition laws, which broadly regulate marketplace activities and activities that potentially 
 harm customers; foreign and state laws, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and a version of the GDPR adopted in the United Kingdom (“UK GDPR”), and state laws and regulations, including general                             
 legislation such as the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”), and sector- or subject matter-specific laws and regulations, governing the privacy and security of health information in certain circumstances, many of which differ from          
 each other in significant ways and may not have the same effect, thus complicating compliance efforts; and state laws related to insurance fraud in the case of claims involving private insurers.                                                      |

The scope and enforcement of each of these laws are uncertain and subject to rapid change in the current environment of healthcare reform. Federal and state enforcement bodies have recently increased their scrutiny of interactions between healthcare companies and healthcare providers, which has led to a number of investigations, prosecutions, convictions, and settlements in the healthcare industry. It is possible that governmental authorities will conclude that our business practices may not comply with current or future statutes, regulations, or case law involving applicable fraud and abuse or other healthcare laws and regulations, and we could also be subject to claims, demands, and litigation initiated by private individuals or entities related to these matters. If our operations, including those of our contractors or agents who conduct business for or on our behalf, are alleged