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Federal Ruling on CMS Staffing Mandate Offers Relief for Long-Term Care Facilities

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Long-term care facilities, embattled by rising costs and potential Medicaid cuts, are seeing some relief on the horizon following a recent federal court ruling that struck down portions of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...more

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Colorado Court of Appeals rules that claims under the Health Care Worker Protection Act are subject to the Colorado Governmental...

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On May 8, the Colorado Court of Appeals concluded that any claim that might be asserted under the Health Care Worker Protection Act (“HCWPA”), C.R.S § 8-2-123, is subject to the notice requirement in the Colorado Governmental...more

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Federal Judge Vacates Key Provisions of CMS’s Nursing Home Staffing Mandate

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Earlier last week, Hon. Matthew J. Kacsmaryk of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated two key provisions of CMS’s 2024 nationwide staffing mandate, the requirements that skilled nursing facilities...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

California’s Non-Compete Long Arm: What Healthcare Organizations Need to Know After the FTC’s Nationwide Noncompete Ban Gambit Has...

In one of the most highly anticipated court rulings of the summer, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas set aside the FTC’s Non-Compete Rule (“Rule”), which would have effectively banned most...more

Snell & Wilmer

U.S. Court of Appeals Finds “No Clear Duty” for OSHA To Issue Permanent COVID-19 Healthcare Standard

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In June 2021, the United States Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“Fed OSHA”) enacted a COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) governing the health care industry. The ETS had a...more

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

Claimant Denied Pennsylvania Unemployment Benefits for Walking Off Job Without Voicing COVID-19 Concerns

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Fear of COVID-19 was not a valid reason for walking off the job, according to the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania’s recent decision. Shortly after the lockdown orders were issued by Gov. Tom Wolf in March 2020, a Certified...more

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California Health Care Employees Cannot Waive Entitlement to Second Meal Period When Working In Excess of 12 Hours

Narrowly construing the California Labor Code provisions on meal periods, the California Court of Appeal struck down a provision in the Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Orders that allows health care employees working...more

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California Court Decision on Meal Breaks May Cause Health Care Industry To Go To Code Blue

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Executive Summary: A new California Court of Appeal decision has invalidated a 22-year-old healthcare industry exception that had given the industry some flexibility with respect to how it provided its employees working...more

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