Allermi, a San Francisco-based telehealth company, is redefining personalized allergy care by offering compounded nasal spray products that combine multiple active ingredients at varying dosages and combinations into a single...more
We hosted an engaging discussion with Sarah-Lloyd Stevenson and Matt Rubin, two former Faegre Drinker colleagues who now serve on Amazon’s Public Policy team. With more than a decade of experience advocating for health care...more
In celebration of Women's Health Month in May, we hosted Joanna Strober, founder and CEO of Midi Health. Founded in 2021, Midi's mission is to revolutionize health care for women in midlife. As the fastest-growing virtual...more
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) brought together change-makers and front-line providers from across the telehealth industry for its annual conference, ATA Nexus 2024, on May 5-7, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona. Below...more
The rapid growth of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic continued and expanded access to care for millions of patients. Despite telehealth’s success in promoting continuity of care amid stay-at-home orders and social...more
Among the important changes in the Stark Law Final Rule (Final Rule) issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on November 20, 2020, and scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on December 2,...more
On November 20, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) each published a final rule (collectively, the Final...more
With paramedics, law enforcement, public health authorities and other first responders at the forefront in helping combat COVID-19, the sharing of protected health information (PHI) with them is often critical to ensure that...more
On March 19, 2020, Governor JB Pritzker issued an executive order (the Order) expanding access to telehealth services in the State of Illinois in response to his March 9, 2020 disaster proclamation arising out of the Trump...more
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Price Transparency Requirements for Hospitals to Make Standard Charges Public Final Rule (the Final Rule, effective January 1, 2021), in the Federal Register...more
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On November 8, 2019, the Illinois Department of Public Health published a Notice of Adopted Amendments to the Hospital Licensing Requirements (the Amendments) as set forth in Title 77 of the Illinois Administrative Code, Part...more
On October 9, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released proposed changes to the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act (the “Stark Law”), as well as the Medicare and Medicaid Anti-Kickback Statute (the...more
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On October 9, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) simultaneously released a set of proposed rules (the “Proposed Rules”) that, among other...more
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