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Democratic AGs Sue HHS, DHS Over Alleged Health Data Sharing

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20 Democratic AGs sued HHS and DHS for allegedly sharing personal health data with ICE. The complaint alleges that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services—a division of HHS—transferred millions of individuals’ Medicaid...more

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The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, V 2, Issue 2, January 2025

Welcome to our second issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we look at the effect of the decline of DEI on the healthcare industry, the fate of Medicaid under the...more

McCarter & English, LLP

New Jersey Regulatory Update Part I - January 2025

Below is Part I of our New Jersey Regulatory Update focusing on regulations that were finalized in 2024 by various New Jersey agencies that impact healthcare. The final regulations range from additional transparency...more

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EnforceMintz — Some of 2023’s Largest FCA Resolutions Involved Stark Law Allegations

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The Physician Self-Referral Law — known as the “Stark Law” — broadly prohibits physicians from profiting from self-referrals for “designated health services” (DHS) payable by Medicare or Medicaid. For example, the Stark Law...more

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The New Public Charge Rule and its Previous Iterations

The public charge provisions in the Immigration Nationality Ac (INA) have been part of U.S. immigration law for decades. We recently reported that on December 23, 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began using a...more

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Five Administrative Law Takeaways From Recent Supreme Court Decisions

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The US Supreme Court’s decisions of late have been consequential. While headline-grabbing decisions deal with religious liberties, privacy, and gun control, the Court’s impact on administrative law will have major...more

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Civil Rights Compliance for Hospitals in Wisconsin

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Happy holidays, Wisconsin health care providers! As a gift to all of you, earlier this month, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) and Department of Children & Families (DCF) released their new joint guidance for...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Farewell To The 2019 Public Charge Rule And Form I-944!

For the last year, the fate of the Public Charge Rule, which expanded the ability of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to deny green cards to lower-income foreign nationals, has been uncertain. In addition to the...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law

Revocation of the “Public Charge” Rule

Readers of our blog know that Haider, Alex and I have a longstanding interest in the intersection of health care law and immigration law. That’s important for our blog, especially because of the needs of the immigrant...more

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Dropping Public Charge Rule, DHS Announces Return To Previous Policy To Determine Admissibility

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Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas has announced that the public charge rule, put in place by the Trump administration in 2019, is no longer in effect. Instead, DHS will return to its...more

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[UPDATE] Wisconsin Act 185 Allows DHS To Submit Section 1135 Medicaid Waiver

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On April 16, 2020, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) submitted its Section 1135 Medicaid Waiver to CMS. The waiver submission was made possible once Governor Evers signed the Wisconsin COVID-19 Bill into law...more

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CMS Issues Blanket Stark Law Waivers

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On March 30, 2020 (retroactively effective as of March 1, 2020), CMS issued blanket – nationwide – waivers of sanctions under the Stark Law in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency. Overview of the Law - When...more

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Wisconsin DHS Requests Additional Medicaid Waivers From CMS

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On March 24, 2020, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) prepared correspondence to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) seeking waivers of certain Medicaid requirements pursuant to Section 1135 of...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law

Why are Medicaid and CHIP enrollment numbers declining?

For much of the past two years, enrollment in the Medicaid and CHIP programs has been declining. In May, 2017, enrollment in both programs was 74.6 million people. As of May of this year, enrollment had declined by 2.5%, to...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law

As a Public Charge Rule is Finalized by DHS, Concern Over Upcoming DOJ Rule Grows

Last Fall, we wrote about a proposed regulation issued by the Department of Homeland Security that involved one of our favorite topics: the intersection of immigration and health care law. My colleague Christian Springer and...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Trump Administration Proposed Rule Regarding “Public Charge” Provisions of Immigration Law

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Currently, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) defines a "public charge" as someone who is or is likely to become "primarily dependent on the government for subsistence, as demonstrated by either the receipt of...more

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Window On Washington - Vol. 2, Issue 39

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Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Kavanaugh Vote. The Senate was previously planning to tee up the final vote on Kavanaugh over the weekend, but the vote on the floor has been delayed a week to accommodate a...more

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Window On Washington - Vol. 2, Issue 33

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Outlook for This Week in the Nation's Capital - Senate Appropriations. The Senate is planning to begin work today on its minibus package that contains the defense and labor, health, and education appropriations bills. ...more

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CMS Seeks Stakeholder Input on Easing Stark Law Requirements

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• In order to encourage value-based reimbursement and care delivery, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a Request for Information (RFI) seeking public input on how to address any undue regulatory...more

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What's New In Washington - March 2018

Washington saw a flurry of bipartisan activity over the last few weeks. Most notably, Republican and Democratic negotiators reached a long-awaited deal on sequestration budget caps. The compromise, announced on February 7 as...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Trump Administration: 2017 Recap and 2018 Outlook

On January 20, 2017, businessman Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States following a contentious and unconventional 2016 presidential election. Republicans also successfully maintained control...more

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CHIP Reauthorization Legislation and Medicare-Medicaid Extender Provisions

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In this memorandum, Holland & Knight's Healthcare & Life Sciences Team summarizes recent legislative action on funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The Senate Finance Committee and the House Energy...more

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Trump Administration Releases Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal

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On Tuesday, May 23, the White House released the President's fiscal year 2018 (FY18) budget, launching a contentious and consequential debate that is expected to last through the end of the fiscal year and possibly beyond....more

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Proposed Changes to Stark Rule Would Create New Hospital Exceptions and Lessen Burden of Self-Disclosures

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In a development that is limited in scope but still welcomed by hospitals, the proposed 2016 Physician Fee Schedule proposes a number of new exceptions to the physician self-referral or Stark law and other refinements that...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

CMS Delays 60-Day Rule, But Overpayment Case Law Emerging

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a one-year delay in finalizing the long-awaited and closely watched rule addressing the 60-day deadline to return Medicare and Medicaid overpayments (the...more

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