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Hendershot Cowart P.C.

Family Members Living With Dementia: Guardianship and Guardianship Alternatives

Celebrities like Jay Leno and Emma Hemming Willis (married to Bruce Willis) are speaking out about their experiences with guardianship and caregiving. If you are caring for a family member with dementia too, a time will...more

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Ontario, Canada Appeal Court Finds Aggravated Damages Award Can Be Made Without Medical Evidence of Diagnosable Psychological...

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The Court of Appeal for Ontario (OCA) recently held that an employee may be awarded aggravated damages for an employer’s bad-faith conduct during the employee’s dismissal even in the absence of medical evidence identifying a...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Aetna Emergency Department Reductions: What Providers Should Know

Aetna recently announced that it is rolling out a national protocol under which it will be reviewing both physician and hospital emergency department claims that include Level 4 or 5 evaluation and management (E&M) codes, and...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Opioid Treatment Programs: SAMHSA Makes Permanent Regulatory Flexibilities

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On February 1, 2024, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced a final rule updating the regulations regarding Opioid Treatment Programs...more

Warner Norcross + Judd

Did Woman Have Sufficient Mental Capacity to Deed One-Half of Her Real Property to Boyfriend?

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The Michigan Court of Appeals recently considered a case presenting the question of whether Anna Brudek had sufficient mental capacity to execute a deed conveying one-half of her real property to her boyfriend, Alvin Rice. In...more

Hendershot Cowart P.C.

DEA Proposes Rules for Permanent Pandemic Telehealth Flexibilities

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Meta description: With the federal public health emergency (PHE) ending in May, changes to telehealth prescription rules are set to change. Read on to learn about proposed permanent changes. DEA Proposes Rules for...more

King & Spalding

CMS Issues CY 2023 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule

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Last week, CMS released the Calendar Year (CY) 2023 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule (the Final Rule). Under the Final Rule, CMS finalized a number of updates, revisions, and changes to Medicare payment policies for...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Bill 59: Act to Modernize the Occupational Health and Safety Regime Amendments in Effect Since October 6, 2022

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Bill 59, the Act to modernize the occupational health and safety regime, was adopted on September 30, 2021 by the Quebec National Assembly and sanctioned on October 6, 2021. It is the most important modernization process of...more

Laughlin, Falbo, Levy & Moresi LLP

“You’re really here for a panel dispute?” – WCJ

When Labor Code Sections 4060, 4061, 4062, 4062.1 and 4062.2 were enacted, the panel Qualified Medical Evaluator (QME) process was supposed to be simpler and less costly. As is often true, the legislation did not necessarily...more

MoFo Life Sciences

EU: In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation Entered Into Force (Part 3 Of 3)

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Part 1 of this article discussed the background and purpose of the EU In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (EU) 2017/746 (IVDR), the definition of in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDs), the risk-based classification system,...more

Laughlin, Falbo, Levy & Moresi LLP

RISING COSTS OF THE MEDICAL-LEGAL PROCESS: Revisions to Medical-Legal Fee Schedule

In an effort to entice more doctors to become panel qualified medical examiners, write better reports, and reduce billing disputes over medical-legal examinations and reports, the DWC has proffered amendments to the...more

Kerr Russell

Telemedicine in Michigan: 2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to demonstrate the importance and effectiveness of telemedicine as a means of providing patients with access to safe and quality medical care through the use of technology... Originally...more

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Workers' Compensation Academy: Independent Medical Evaluations Considerations for Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Cases

What considerations should businesses examine when obtaining an Independent Medical Evaluations (IME) in workers' compensation matters in Pennsylvania? In this episode, Weber Gallagher Partner Peter Harrison and Associate...more

McAfee & Taft

Risk of a future disability not always an ADA claim

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Suppose you have an applicant or employee who is currently healthy, but you are concerned they may develop an impairment or condition in the future. Can an employer make any decisions based upon that concern without violating...more

Troutman Pepper

Involuntary Withdrawal Policies: No Room for Mental Health Stereotypes in a Fair Process

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In a recent blog post, ACE General Counsel Peter McDonough outlined principles recognized by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) as guideposts to avoid running afoul of the Americans with...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Federal Court Delivers EEOC A Victory Over UPS In ADA Lawsuit Regarding Pay

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Seyfarth Synopsis: A federal district court in Kansas recently granted the EEOC’s motion for judgment on the pleadings in an ADA lawsuit brought against UPS and an employee union...more

McAfee & Taft

Medical marijuana application requirements and instructions posted

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In our recent webinar, we mentioned that the Oklahoma State Department of Health had until July 26th to make medical marijuana application requirements, instructions and certain forms available to the public. You can now...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Workers’ Compensation Update: “Aggravation” of Pre-Existing Condition

The Commonwealth Court issued several interesting “unreported memorandum opinions” in the past several weeks. ...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

CMS now allows medical student documentation for E/M billing

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On February 2, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an update to the Medicare Claims Processing Manual, stating that all medical student documentation can be used for evaluation and management (E/M)...more

Knobbe Martens

Report Finds European Union's Assessment of High-Risk Medical Devices of Low Quality

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A report appearing in the December 2017 issue of Value in Health, (a journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research) concluded that assessments of high-risk medical devices in the European...more

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Washington Public Employer Hit with $1.8 Million Judgment for Failing to Accommodate Prescription Drug User

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Last month, a Washington federal district court judge ordered an employer to pay a terminated employee a little over $1.8 million in damages for failing to accommodate the employee’s use of opioids that had been prescribed to...more

Franczek P.C.

Can We Lawfully Terminate an Employee After He Submits a Vague Doctor's Note Seeking an Extension of Leave? In a Word, Yes.

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An employee’s 12 weeks of FMLA leave has exhausted, and over the past several weeks, he’s provided you a series of vague doctor’s notes typically containing nothing more than a one-liner extending his medical leave of absence...more

Stinson LLP

FDA Eases Medical Evaluation and Recordkeeping Requirements for Hearing Aids

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On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a new guidance document indicating that it will not enforce the medical evaluation and recordkeeping requirements (21 CFR §801.421(a) and (d)) prior to the...more

Nossaman LLP

Long Term Disability Payments: Standard for Abuse of Discretion

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Insurance for long term disability – payments to an insured who is prevented from earning his or her income due to long term disability – is a fruitful field for litigation for many reasons. Though the insurance may be...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

Court Blocks Attempt to Circumvent the Med-Legal Process

On October 28, 2015, the Second District Court of Appeal, Division Six, published its opinion in Margaret Batten v. Long Beach Memorial Hospital, B260916, in which it determined that a self-procured medical-legal report...more

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