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This week, our hosts Heather and Matthew welcome Dr. Edward Simmer, the Interim Director of the South Carolina Department of Public Health. After leading DHEC through the latter half of the COVID pandemic and its transition...more
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper declared a State of Emergency on September 25, 2024, due to the impending impact of Tropical Storm Helene (Helene). On September 28, 2024, a Federal Major Disaster Declaration (FEMA-4827-DR)...more
Hurricane Helene tore through the Southeastern United States from September 26-28, dumping nearly 30 inches of rain in some western North Carolina communities and causing catastrophic flooding, mudslides and wind damage along...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more
News Briefs - PHE End Brings Challenges for Nursing Home Operators - As the public health emergency (PHE) came to an end on May 11, industry leaders point out that nursing home operators are still in pandemic recovery mode...more
Doctors and hospitals must redouble their efforts to protect patients in their care, as the coronavirus pandemic reversed years of safety advances, and these must be restored top to bottom - and more. This powerful,...more
On Monday, February 7, 2022, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, and Todd Young, R-Indiana, introduced the Telehealth Extension and Evaluation Act, which if passed, would extend several of the telehealth waivers...more
Although the COVID-19 pandemic is still active worldwide, health care industry leaders and regulators have already begun to think about how to implement post-pandemic changes to health care delivery based on lessons learned...more
Telehealth has become an integral part of care delivery, particularly in light of the waivers instituted during COVID-19. However, these flexibilities remain in flux and at the same time, government scrutiny and enforcement...more
Please join us for our annual healthcare compliance seminar to discuss current developments in healthcare regulation and hospital compliance... Registrants will have the option of selecting the sessions they would like to...more
On December 4, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revised its Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund (Relief Fund) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), indicating that providers must return Relief...more
The novel Coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic has brought about unprecedented applications of certain federal healthcare laws and regulations, including the federal physician self-referral law (the “Stark Law”) and the federal...more
On August 25, 2020 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued interim final regulations known as CMS-3401-IFC that become effective immediately upon publication in the Federal Register, scheduled for September...more
Independent physician enterprises continue to experience unprecedented challenges as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. These challenges will linger for the foreseeable future and will have lasting impacts on...more
Physician enterprises will face lasting changes to their operations following the coronavirus (COVID-19) public health emergency. Transactional opportunities have also shifted, and physician enterprises and their counterparts...more
We previously discussed how recipients of payments from the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) are at risk for allegations of fraud and specifically addressed how these recipients may become targets of False Claims Act (FCA)...more
While hospitals and other health care organizations continue to focus on the challenges of treating COVID-19 patients and complying with newly-issued state government reopening orders, now is the time to begin planning for a...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 16 (April 27, 2020) - Because of the coronavirus, the talents of a business development executive at a hospital are wasted, and the chief financial officer (CFO) is wondering whether...more
The healthcare real estate industry finds itself in unchartered waters while grappling with the myriad issues created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Landlords are flooded with requests from tenants for rent relief as healthcare...more