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Medicare Telehealth Gets Another Temporary Lifeline – Will Congress Make it Permanent?

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On March 15, 2025, President Trump signed a continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown, which included a critical six-month extension of Medicare telehealth flexibilities through September 30, 2025. This six-month...more

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Some COVID-Era Medicare Telehealth Waivers Extended through March 31

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The American Relief Act, 2025, signed into law on December 21, included a short-term extension of certain telehealth waivers that went into effect in the early days of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. These waivers, for...more

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COVID-19 Telehealth Flexibilities Extending and Enduring

In the wake of an end of year filled with intense negotiations and political wrangling, Congress has successfully enacted the American Relief Act, 2025 ("the Budget Bill" or "legislation"), narrowly averting a government...more

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Congress Extends Telehealth Flexibilities for Two More Years

With only two weeks remaining in the year, Congress is considering a government funding deal (the “Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2025” or the “Bill”) that includes a...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: January 19, 2024

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Congress Passes CR and Averts Government Shutdown. As appropriators continue to draft the 12 funding bills for FY 2024, a new stopgap CR was needed to avoid a partial government shutdown on January 19. The Senate passed the...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: June 23, 2023

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Congress was in session for a final week of legislative business before the two-week Independence Day recess. The House brought a small-business-focused healthcare bill to the floor, approving it along party lines....more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: May 26, 2023

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The House was in session this week, while the Senate was in recess. The House Energy & Commerce Committee continued its work on healthcare by advancing six bills that address competition, transparency and access to care. The...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: May 19, 2023

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The House and Senate were both in session this week, with significant healthcare activity at the committee level. The House Ways & Means Committee met to discuss healthcare price transparency, and the Ways & Means Health...more

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Florida Governor Signs into Law Sweeping Bill that Prohibits Businesses from Discriminating Based on Vaccination Status or from...

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On May 11, 2023, the same day on which the federal government ended the national health emergency related to COVID-19, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a sweeping bill (SB 252) that prohibits...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: April 28, 2023

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Congress was in session, and it was a busy healthcare week at the committee level, with six hearings focused specifically on health issues. On the House floor, Republicans passed the Limit, Save, Grow Act—a bill that raises...more

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New Iowa Law Will Impact Health Care Staffing Agencies and Contracts with Health Care Entities

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On March 17, 2022, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed into law House File 2521, “Relating to Health Care Employment Agencies, and Providing Penalties,” which will have its home in Chapter 135Q of the Iowa Code. In general, the...more

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Holland & Knight Health Dose: March 15, 2022

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Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector. ...more

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The Federal Telehealth Extension and Evaluation Act: What You Need to Know

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What is the Telehealth Extension and Evaluation Act? The Telehealth Extension and Evaluation Act would establish a two-year extension for certain COVID-19 emergency telehealth waivers. The legislation aims to extend the...more

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Health Care E-Note - January 2022

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HELPFUL HINTS - The Federal No Surprises Act The Federal No Surprises Act (the “Act”) became fully effective on January 1, 2022. The Act protects enrollees in group and individual market plans (including ERISA plans) and...more

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Florida Medicare and Medicaid Providers' Vaccine Mandate Dilemma

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Florida healthcare providers billing federal programs may again face a complicated COVID-19 quandary. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has denied the state of Florida's request for an injunction against the...more

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The Top 16 Workplace Law Stories from November 2021

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Florida Legislature Passes New COVID-19 Workplace Laws

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During a special session to consider what Governor Ron DeSantis called his “Keep Florida Free” agenda, the Florida Legislature passed several vaccine measures, some of which conflict with recently implemented federal rules,...more

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Considerations for Health Care Employers under Iowa’s Vaccine Passport Law and Recent CDC, CMS and EEOC Guidelines

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One of the last pieces of legislation the Iowa legislature sent to Governor Kim Reynolds’ desk for guaranteed signature was a bill banning vaccine passports in Iowa. House File 889 contains several prohibitions regarding...more

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Biden’s American Rescue Plan Follows Trend Toward Outpatient Setting, Increase in ASC Investment

The Biden Administration’s American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (H.R. 1319) (the “Act”) could present an opportunity for the growth of utilization of ambulatory surgery centers (“ASCs”), continuing the trend of migration of...more

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Montana Enacts New Law Making Vaccination Status a Protected Class and Limiting Inquiries Into Immunization Status

On May 7, 2021, Montana governor Greg Gianforte signed into law Montana House Bill 702, under which Montana became the first jurisdiction to recognize an individual’s vaccination status as a protected category. The law also...more

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Senate Passes $1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan Act; Bill Heads to House and Then to President Biden

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On Saturday, March 6, 2021, by a vote of 50-49, the Senate amended and approved the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which is reconciliation legislation to provide $1.9 trillion in COVID-19 relief. The House of...more

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Coverage of Routine Clinical Trial Costs Under the Medicaid Program

Right before the new year, we told you about some of the Medicaid-related provisions of the COVID relief package that was recently signed into law by President Trump. One provision of that law that we thought merited a...more

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Congress Establishes New Medicare Provider Category and Reimbursement for Rural Emergency Hospitals

Year-end COVID-19 relief legislation approved by Congress established Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs) as a new Medicare provider type effective January 1, 2023. REHs, defined as providers that furnish certain outpatient...more

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Medicaid Provisions in COVID-19 Relief Package

Here at the Medicaid and the Law Blog, we spent part of our holiday break reading through the most recent COVID-19 relief package that was finally signed into law by President Trump amid a not-insignificant amount of drama. ...more

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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for Medicaid

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began to seriously affect the United States in March, Congress has passed four major pieces of legislation to address the public health crisis. CMS has also jumped into action and has issued a...more

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