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60 Days After Loper: Health Care Impact of Chevron Deference's End

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued its highly anticipated ruling in a pair of cases challenging the long-standing Chevron doctrine on June 28, 2024. Foreshadowed by decisions in recent years slighting Chevron, it...more

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New Illinois Protections Against Patient Medical Debt May Also Help Reduce Hospital Bad Debt

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Starting in mid-2024, Illinois hospitals will be required to take a much more active role in limiting consumers’ medical debt by screening all consenting uninsured patients for both public health insurance program coverage...more

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Patients Suing Hospitals for Antitrust Violations – Do They Have Standing?

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A recently decided case out of Connecticut provides a useful examination of how antitrust standing issues may be analyzed in cases involving commercially-insured patients directly suing a health care system alleging economic...more

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McDermottPlus Check-Up: June 16, 2023

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The House and Senate were both in session this week, with healthcare activity continuing at the committee level. The House Energy and Commerce Committee held hearings on the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA)...more

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Sixth Circuit Holds That Federal Four-Year Statute of Limitations Applies to Disability Discrimination Claims under Section 1557...

In the face of tragic allegations, the Sixth Circuit has held that a patient’s disability discrimination claim against a hospital is not timed barred by the Rehabilitation Act, which borrows a state’s applicable statute of...more

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UVA health system will curb decades of hounding patients over medical bills

The University of Virginia health system has decided to end decades of draconian bill collection, giving a reprieve to tens of thousands of patients and their families who faced harsh legal actions to recover crushing medical...more

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The State of Competition in the U.S. Healthcare Industry

The U.S. healthcare system has been undergoing significant changes since the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, which helped precipitate a wave of hospital and healthcare system consolidation, as providers sought out...more

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To rein in health costs, experts focus on $1.2 trillion in U.S. hospital spending

Although politicians have obsessed for a decade about affordable health insurance, frustrated patients have seen little or no relief on another crucial concern — the skyrocketing costs of medical services. What policy paths...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Price Transparency Rule

As of January 1, 2021, almost all hospitals in the United States will have to comply with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Additionally, the government has been open about...more

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Biden orders expand access and affordability of health care for millions

President Biden has increased the access and affordability of health care for millions of Americans, issuing executive orders to reopen Obamacare exchanges and review rules or practices that targeted the aged, poor, sick, and...more

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Hospitals start to roll out newly required data on prices and confidential deals

A lot of people in health care across the country are firing up their computers to dig into long-sought, confidential information from hospitals about their prices and deals they cut on them with an array of parties....more

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U.S. long hoped to reduce health spending. Now it’s happened, but it may not be good.

The nation has gotten some long-desired, important health care economic news: The country  has “bent the cost curve,” seeing 2020 as the first year in at least six decades in which America’s health care spending went down....more

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Client Alert: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Introduces Dialysis and Oncology Payment Models

On September 18, 2020 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) finalized two new payment models with the aim to reduce Medicare expenditures while improving the quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries....more

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New Health Care Transparency Requirements: Will They Lower Cost and Improve Quality?

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On November 12, 2020, the Trump administration published its final rule on price transparency (the “Final Rule”) requiring affected entities to publicly release personalized information on out-of-pocket costs as well as...more

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The health insurance mess: Worker costs jump anew, as kids’ coverage falls

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced many Americans to reconsider their transportation options, what with fears of infection and the slashing of public transit systems’ routes and schedules. That has made used cars, motorcycles,...more

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COVID-19: Resources for Oncology Providers (Medicaid, Grants, & Stark Law Waivers)

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and other Federal and State agencies and...more

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HHS Issues Advisory Opinion on PREP Act: Immunity May Extend Beyond Actual Covered Persons and Approved Countermeasures

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With crisis comes uncertainty, and even the best-intentioned regulations can leave those combating the current COVID-19 public-health emergency out in the cold.  Many have asked whether the recent Declaration under the...more

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Health CARES – How the CARES Act Impacts Health Care Providers

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Congress passed and the President signed the CARES Act on March 27, 2020. The Act impacts hospitals, post-acute providers and long term care facilities in numerous ways. The following is an outline of key provisions and their...more

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CMS Releases Tools to Support States’ Medicaid and CHIP Programs During the COVID-19 Outbreak

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On March 22, 2020, CMS announced a suite of four new tools intended to help states combat the coronavirus by allowing states to streamline enrollment into long-term care and home-based services and by expediting application...more

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CMS Announces New Priorities for Facility Surveys and Inspections

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In light of findings from the COVID-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it will suspend all routine facility inspections and surveys...more

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Nota Bene Episode 49: The Economics of Healthcare Consolidation with Economist Susan Manning

We’re celebrating our one year anniversary on the podcast! Thank you for listening and supporting this show over the past 49 episodes. As the healthcare industry redefines their missions, their services, and the delivery of...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Potential Implications to the ACA Under the Incoming Republican Administration – Part IV: Pharmacies

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), as a whole, did not have a significant impact on pharmacy services per se. However, a complete repeal would likely impact certain areas of pharmacy services including the drug benefit for the...more

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Under the Dome: Inside the Maine State House

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Under the Dome: Inside the Maine State House provides a high-level overview of recent activity at the Maine State House. LePage Presents Priorities at Biddeford Town Hall Forum - On Wednesday, January 25, Governor...more

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Potential Implications to the ACA Under the Incoming Republican Administration – Part III: Hospitals

President Trump has been clear in his intention to repeal the ACA. In fact, among President Trump’s first executive orders was one seeking to “minimize the economic burden” associated with the Patient Protection and...more

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2016/2017 Labor & Employment Observer

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Activist NLRB Created More Problems For All Employers in 2016 - What Happens Under President Trump? During 2016, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) maintained its generally pro-union, anti-employer...more

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