Welcome to our seventh issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter.
In this edition, we look at the so called “One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act” and its impacts on Medicaid and healthcare, the...more
7/10/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Cybersecurity ,
FBI ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Medicaid ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Technology ,
Telehealth ,
Trump Administration ,
Virginia
Welcome to our sixth issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter.
In this edition, we look at the impact of supply chain and tariff issues on the industry, the veto of Florida's...more
6/9/2025
/ Amazon ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Credit Reports ,
Data Breach ,
Data Security ,
Florida ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Hospice ,
Hospitals ,
Medicaid ,
Medical Debt ,
Medical Malpractice ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Advantage ,
Pharmacies ,
Price Transparency ,
Ransomware ,
Supply Chain ,
Tariffs ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine ,
Trump Administration
Welcome to our third issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter.
In this edition, we look at the possible expiration of telehealth flexibilities for Medicare patients, the potential...more
3/11/2025
/ Competition ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Employee Mobility ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Gender Identity ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Insurance Industry ,
Medicare ,
NLRB ,
Pay Transparency ,
Pricing ,
Technology Sector ,
Telehealth ,
Transgender ,
Trump Administration
Welcome to our second volume and first issue of 2025 of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. We hope you enjoyed our Volume 1 issues in 2024 and look forward to continuing to provide information about...more
1/20/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Certificate of Need ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Hospice ,
Medicare ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmacies ,
Privacy Laws ,
Technology Sector ,
Telehealth
Happy Holidays and welcome to our year-end issue of Decoded. We hope you enjoyed reading our technology law insights e-newsletter this year. We are already planning for 2025.
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12/11/2024
/ 3D Printing ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Bitcoin ,
Climate Change ,
Construction Industry ,
Construction Project ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
CRISPR ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Cybersecurity ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FinCEN ,
Green Buildings ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Machine Learning ,
Manufacturers ,
Medical Devices ,
New Legislation ,
New Regulations ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Smart Devices ,
Software ,
Stays ,
Technology Sector ,
Telehealth ,
Trump Administration
Welcome to our sixth issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we take a look at the impact of AI when it comes to diverse health data, the FDA and AI medical devices, Virginia's...more
10/25/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Breach ,
Data Security ,
Diversity ,
Federal Bans ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Labor Shortage ,
Machine Learning ,
Medical Devices ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Technology ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine
Welcome to our fourth issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we address a variety of topics including a recent SCOTUS ruling and the potential impact on CMS, issues of patient...more
8/22/2024
/ Billing ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Chevron Deference ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Hospitals ,
HRSA ,
Interstate Compacts ,
Licensing Rules ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
Nursing Homes ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmacies ,
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Rural Health Care Providers ,
SCOTUS ,
Transparency
Welcome to our third issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter!
We are winding down the summer with our talented group of law students and they have continued to research and write, shadow...more
7/25/2024
/ Administrative Procedure Act ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Chevron Deference ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Government Agencies ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Hospitals ,
Insurance Industry ,
Judicial Authority ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Life Sciences ,
Loper Bright Enterprises v Raimondo ,
New Legislation ,
New Regulations ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Regulatory Authority ,
Regulatory Reform ,
SCOTUS ,
Statutory Interpretation ,
Technology ,
Telehealth ,
Transgender
Welcome to our inaugural issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter!
As such, we wanted to pull together our insights and pass them along to you. Our goal is to create a publication that is...more
5/21/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biden Administration ,
Billing ,
Breach Notification Rule ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) ,
Data Protection ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Discrimination ,
Federal Bans ,
Federal Budget ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Health and Welfare Plans ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Machine Learning ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Patients ,
Personal Data ,
Physicians ,
Popular ,
Privacy Laws ,
Ransomware ,
Sexual Orientation Discrimination ,
Stark Law ,
Telehealth ,
Transgender
Spilman's COVID-19 Task Force and Health Care Practice Group have developed this e-newsletter to address important issues affecting health care providers and others operating in the health care industry during the COVID-19...more
Telehealth is not a new concept, but it has been accelerated to the forefront recently by government mandated social distancing. While all of the "stay-at-home" orders issued across the country to date have included...more
In times of emergency, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the "Secretary") has authority to issue temporary waivers or modifications of certain Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and HIPAA requirements. The Centers for...more
4/7/2020
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Hospitals ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Public Health Emergency ,
State of Emergency ,
Waivers
On March 30, 2020, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services ("Secretary") announced a blanket waiver ("Waiver") of sanctions for violations of Section 1877 of the Social Security Act, also known as the...more
4/7/2020
/ Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Medicaid ,
Medicare ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Self-Referral ,
Stark Law ,
State of Emergency ,
Waivers
Recently, we have noticed an alarming increase within the Spilman footprint of revocations by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") of physicians' Medicare billing privileges. In particular, CMS has been...more
9/19/2017
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
DMEPOS ,
Health Care Providers ,
Home Health Care ,
Medicare ,
Medicare Billing Privileges ,
Medicare Provider Agreements ,
Physician Medicare Reimbursements ,
Physicians ,
Record Retention ,
Revocation ,
Right of Access ,
TRO