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CMS Escalates Aggressive Rates Cut in Home Health Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule for CY 2026

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On June 30, 2025, CMS issued its annual Home Health Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule for Calendar Year (CY) 2026 (the Proposed Rule). The Proposed Rule continues the agency’s policy of using provisions of the...more

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New York Court Issues Decision and Order Declaring the DOH’s August 2024 Reimbursement Rate Adjustment for Fiscal Intermediaries...

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On March 20, 2025, a New York Supreme Court Justice in Albany County issued a decision and order declaring the New York State Department of Health (NY DOH)’s August 2024 implementation of an administrative rate reimbursement...more

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Year in Review: Key Regulatory Updates in 2023

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The hospice industry saw many regulatory changes in 2023. In this episode of Hospice Insights: The Law and Beyond, Husch Blackwell's Meg Pekarske, Andrew Brenton, and Adam Royal discuss some of the main regulatory changes...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Healthcare Trends & Transactions Q3 2023

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After steadying during Q2, it appears the overall volume of deals in the healthcare industry declined in Q3 compared with Q2, and year-to-date 2023 is still down from last year. A slumping economy has no doubt played a large...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Tracking the Waivers: Implications of the Wind Down of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

The White House recently announced that the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency (PHE) declarations will end on May 11, 2023. These declarations have been in place since the beginning of the COVID-19...more

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Due Diligence in Home Health M&A Transactions

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In the first article in our series discussing home health M&A transactions, we discussed the various structures that may be used to combine home health agencies (HHAs) with each other or with other entities. Whichever...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Kansas City Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - September 17th, Lenexa, KS

Our one-day Regional Compliance Conferences provide attendees with a forum to interact with local compliance professionals, share information about your compliance successes and challenges, and create educational...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Boston Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - September 10th, Newton, MA

Our one-day Regional Compliance Conferences provide attendees with a forum to interact with local compliance professionals, share information about your compliance successes and challenges, and create educational...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Health Care Provider Exemption to Emergency Paid Sick Leave in the Families First Coronavirus Act - Are you Covered?

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Yesterday, the Department of Labor issued temporary regulations regarding the “health care provider” exemption to employer-provided paid time off and paid leave under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”)....more

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New hospice care program rules effective January 23, 2020

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House Bill 286, which became effective March 20, 2019, permits a hospice care program (HCP) with inpatient facilities or units to admit non-hospice palliative care patients (NHPCPs) to the inpatient hospice facility or unit...more

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Home Health Care Aides Working Twenty-Four Hour Shifts Can Be Paid For Thirteen Hours If Employer Meets Sleep and Meal Time...

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Home health care aides working twenty-four hour shifts can be paid for as little as thirteen hours under certain conditions, according to a March ruling from the New York Court of Appeals in Andryeyeva v. New York Health...more

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New York Court of Appeals Upholds Thirteen Hour Rule for Home Health Aide Pay

On March 26, 2019, the New York Court of Appeals upheld the state Department of Labor’s (the “DOL”) so-called “13-hour rule” governing payment of home health care aides that work 24 hour shifts....more

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NY Court of Appeals Decision Saves the NY Home Care Industry – What’s Next for Home Care Providers?

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New York’s vast home care industry and those who rely on their services breathed a sigh of relief on March 26, 2019, when the New York Court of Appeals gave providers the green light to continue to pay home care aides for 13...more

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A Paramount Reversal Just Saved the NY Home Care Industry

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The day most anxiously anticipated (or dreaded) by the vast home care industry in New York has arrived, and a huge sigh of relief from home care agencies and New Yorkers who rely on their services can be heard across the...more

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NY Court of Appeals Upholds 13 Hours Pay for 24-Hour Shift Home Health Aides

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Yesterday the New York Court of Appeals issued its long-awaited decision on 24-hour shift home health aides who work as “sleep-in” workers....more

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Two Recent Developments Are Easing Restrictions on Licensure and Transactions in the Home Health Industry

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Two recent legal developments (one at the federal level and one at the state level) will inevitably reduce barriers to new licensing and transactions in the home care industry and, in particular, for home health agencies...more

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New York Court Nullifies Recent Emergency Amendment Codifying Longstanding "13-Hour Rule" for Home Care Industry

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The home health care industry suffered a major setback on September 26, 2018, when the New York Supreme Court, New York County, ruled that the New York State Department of Labor's (NYDOL) emergency rulemaking amendment to the...more

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