On February 2nd, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule expanding patient access to medications for the treatment of opioid use disorder (“OUD”). This new final rule implements changes...more
2/7/2024
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Strategies for Complying with Price Transparency and Surprise Billing Laws -
State legislatures and the federal government have been busy the past 12 months churning out laws that impose new disclosure and billing obligations...more
2/23/2021
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Value-Based Care
On May 5, 2020, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker unveiled “Restore Illinois,” a 5-phase public health plan to reopen Illinois. The plan endeavors to best support Illinoisans’ health and health care systems and save the most...more
U.S. health care providers and the agencies that regulate them and oversee public health concerns are scrambling to ensure pandemic readiness in the face of isolated incidents of novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) exposure in...more
3/5/2020
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Polsinelli presents Crisis Management: a multi-part series (culminating in a webinar on 11.20.2014) on what companies must know to stay ahead of external interruption that risks serious impact to their business concerns....more
On August 15, 2013, the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board ("the Board") released updated inventories and need determinations for health service areas across the State. The new need determinations reveal a...more