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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Amid Seeming Error, HHS Finalizes Klote’s Termination As Director of Crippled OHRP; She Issues a Warning

In the end, the final termination letter arrived in the mail on July 18. For nearly three months—about half of the length of time she was director of the HHS Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)—Molly Klote, M.D.,...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - May 2025

The May Monthly Minute brings you up-to-date on mental health parity enforcement relief, as well as smoker surcharge and prohibited transaction litigation. Nonenforcement of 2024 Mental Health Parity Regulations - Earlier...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Week 11 in Review: Wide-Ranging Tariffs, More Lawsuits, and Personnel Moves

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The Trump administration imposes additional wide-ranging tariffs as legal challenges to the administration’s actions continue....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

How Pending Fishing Boat Cases at the Supreme Court Could Rock the Benefits Plan Boat

Thanks to two cases about federally mandated observers on fishing boats, judicial deference to agencies is likely to soon get weaker – and more unpredictable – with wide-ranging impacts for employee benefits. Less deference...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

HIPAA Compliance 101: Lessons from a Recent OCR Settlement

The US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently announced a settlement with a community hospital resolving an investigation under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Health Care Providers: It’s Not Just Employee Discrimination Claims — Patients Can Have Discrimination Claims Too

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Hospitals, outpatient clinics, and telehealth practices know they need policies and training on their employee equal employment and anti-harassment policies. These health care providers know that when supervisors are not...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Texas Court Upholds Mandatory Vaccination Policy

Since vaccines have become readily available, employers have been grappling with whether they should mandate vaccines for employees. Most companies have chosen to “strongly encourage” employees instead of mandating, and many...more

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