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On January 14, 2022, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, renewed the declaration of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) that was first declared on January 20, 2020.
Under legislation signed on December 31 by Governor Kathy Hochul, (S.3762/A. 1396; L2021, ch. 828), all pharmacy benefit managers operating in New York State will be required to register with the State Department of Financial Services (DFS) by April 1, 2022, and thereafter to be licensed.
Beginning January 1, 2022, all state licensed or certified health care facilities and providers must follow extensive rules for providing a “good faith estimate” of health care charges to uninsured and self-pay patients prior to the provision of health care services.
The US Supreme Court heard oral argument to decide a circuit split and determine what ERISA requires of ERISA-governed pension plan fiduciaries with respect to investment fees and recordkeeping. A decision is expected in the first half of 2022.
The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury, and the Office of Personnel Management issued this Fall their second long-awaited interim final rule implementing the federal No Surprises Act (the “Act”), titled “Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part II.” As the end of the
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) calendar year 2022 rule finalizing changes to payment policies under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Medicare Part B (the Final Rule) was published on November 19, 2021. The Final Rule takes effect January 1, 2022.
A handful of recent court decisions have brought a small degree of resolution and simultaneously a large degree of uncertainty to what we at Arent Fox affectionately refer to as the “340B Saga.”
The FCC announced that it will host a “virtual roundtable” on Monday, December 6, 2021, starting at 10:00 a.m. EST that will focus on the FCC’s “telehealth initiatives and the benefits they can bring to communities across the country.”
Arent Fox is pleased to announce that Health Care Partners Debra Albin-Riley and Lowell C. Brown have been named to Daily Journal’s exclusive list of Top Health Care Lawyers 2021
On Friday, November 5, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a comprehensive interim final rule, the Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination rule.
On November 4, 2021, CMS issued its Omnibus Staff Vaccination Rule, mandating that all Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities regulated under Medicare health and safety standards require that their employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 4, 2022.
On November 2, 2021, CMS published the 2022 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule that addressed its previously-proposed penalties for hospital non-compliance with price reporting requirements.
CMS published the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule on November 2, 2021. The Rule keeps intact CMS’s temporary physician supervision requirements related to the provision of telehealth services.
Proposed Rules Seek to Repeal Multiple Trump Era Regulations That Received Prior Industry Scrutiny
On October 13, 2021, the EEOC once again issued updated FAQs concerning the application of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, among others, to issues arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Effective October 18, 2021, Xavier Becerra, the Secretary of Health and Human Services renewed the declaration of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) that was first declared on January 20, 2020.
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In this podcast, Partner Lowell C. Brown discusses how physician and hospital leaders can best prepare for and manage disciplinary action against disruptive practitioners.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) – a leading lobbying and advocacy group for drug manufacturers – has released an updated version of its “Code on Interactions with Health Care Professionals” (the PhRMA Code or the Code).
On August 16, 2021, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that all healthcare workers in New York State are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The mandate is applicable to staff at hospitals and long-term care facilities such as nursing homes, adult care facilities, and other cong
JD Supra has awarded our Investigations team with its 2021 Readers’ Choice Award as the Top Firm for White Collar analysis. The award comes during a year when the legal intelligence platform quadrupled its content production.
In Natarajan v. Dignity Health, the Supreme Court rejected a physician’s challenge to a peer review hearing officer based on alleged financial bias. In doing so, the Court gave hospitals helpful and long-needed guidance regarding such challenges
On August 11, 2021, Sheng-Wen Cheng was sentenced to 72 months in prison for his alleged participation in multiple schemes related to Covid-19 pandemic loan fraud and securities fraud.