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What's Next for the Paycheck Protection Program? by Lindsey Berwick and John Wittenberg
Following Judge Frederic Block's March 31, 2025, issuance of a temporary restraining order (TRO) temporarily halting New York state's push to consolidate the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) under a...more
As outlined in our prior client alert, the healthcare industry can breathe a temporary sigh of relief as Congress has once again acted to extend for an additional six months the Medicare telehealth flexibilities implemented...more
On November 15, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) issued a joint regulations further extending the flexibilities that have been in place relating to prescribing...more
Congress narrowly avoided hurdling off the telehealth “cliff” Bradley previously reported on in this post with the passing of the American Relief Act, 2025 on December 21, 2024...more
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency Administration (DEA) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (collectively, the Agencies) on Nov. 11, 2024, issued a third extension of their telemedicine flexibilities for the...more
Update: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended the deadline for skilled nursing facilities to submit information for the required off-cycle revalidation to May 1, 2025, regardless of when the facility...more
If you have been following the implementation of the No Surprises Act independent dispute resolution (IDR) process, you have likely seen a bunch of new rules, guidance documents and deadline extensions come out recently and...more
The initial phase of Provider Relief Funds (“Funds”) was distributed in April 2020, and since then, many providers have been playing catch up. The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) recently addressed two...more
The Provider Relief Fund was established in the CARES Act to reimburse eligible health care providers for increased expenses or lost revenue attributable to the Covid-19 pandemic. As a condition of receiving funds, providers...more
On March 15, 2022, President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, an omnibus bill which includes, among other spending measures, a five-month extension of regulatory flexibilities that have allowed for...more
The President and Congress extended Medicare telehealth coverage in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which also included additional Ukrainian relief. On Tuesday, March 15, 2022, President Biden signed the Consolidated...more
The Acting Massachusetts DPH Commissioner issued an order on August 26, 2021 authorizing the issuance of temporary licenses for certain providers and renewing the expedited process for issuing those temporary licenses....more
You may recall on December 10, 2020 we wrote about the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announcement of a proposed rule that would revise the Health Insurance Portability and...more
Congress’ year-end spending bill includes increase to Medicare physician fee schedule, surprise medical bill protection - Sweeping federal legislation signed into law on Dec. 27 combines $1.4-trillion in spending...more
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) quietly released a Post-Payment Notice of Reporting Requirements (Notice) over the weekend, which provides some initial details regarding the reporting requirements...more
The Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has announced a second application extension for its Medicaid Provider Relief Fund disbursement. As we previously discussed, the deadline was initially July 20, 2020, but was...more
In an announcement welcomed by many healthcare providers, on July 23, 2020, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced that the COVID-19 public health emergency would be extended 90 days, through October 23,...more
Dentists are now able to receive funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Provider Relief Fund, as a result of the American Dental Association’s advocacy. In a press release dated July 17, 2020, the...more
About a month ago, I predicted on this blog that Food and Drug Administration’s November 2020 enforcement discretion deadline announced as part of its Comprehensive Regenerative Medicine Policy Framework would most likely not...more
On June 29, 2020, Governor Bill Lee issued Executive Order 50 which extends the state of emergency related to the COVID-19 crisis until August 29, 2020. To help facilitate the treatment and containment of COVID-19, the order...more
On May 15, 2020, the same date on which Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards lifted the statewide stay at home order as further discussed in this blog entry, the Louisiana Department of Health issued an emergency order...more
On March 30, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued blanket waivers to the Stark Law that permit certain arrangements between physicians and health care providers implemented in response to COVID-19...more
In 2016, CMS issued a proposed rule to update the requirements that hospitals and critical access hospitals must meet to participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs....more
The guidance provides helpful clarity on key regulatory changes impacting life sciences companies in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has published a...more
Congress passed a funding bill early this morning just after the February 8th deadline. The new legislation will make several changes to the Medicare program, delay cuts to disproportionate share hospitals, provide two years...more