Value-based health care: the role of payors
Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) rejected a manufacturer’s proposal to provide free hearing aids to certain patients if they receive one of the...more
In this session, Patrick Zanayad, a partner in McDermott’s Healthcare practice group, moderated a panel of senior healthcare executives that featured a wide-ranging discussion of the current state of orthopedics and physical...more
During this session, Partner Jeremy Earl moderated a panel that collected insights on how specialists can participate in value-based care and the unique challenges specialists face in maximizing value-based care...more
I. Certificate of Need Program - A. AL2021-033, HH Health System - Marshall, LLC d/b/a Marshall Medical Centers - South Campus, Boaz, AL: Proposes to renovate Marshall Medical South to replace inadequate inpatient rooms to...more
Proposed State Health Plan Adjustments - A. PA2019-002, Vitality Senior Living Management, LLC, d/b/a Traditions of Athens, LLC: Proposes to add 32 specialty care assisted living facility beds pursuant to Section...more
Adding to the list of falling precedents in the waning days of Chairman Miscimarra’s term, on Friday, the NLRB reversed another of the seminal decisions of the Obama-Board when it overruled the highly controversial Specialty...more
This week the NLRB decided two cases involving union organizing in large department stores. In each case an NLRB regional director applied the Board’s Specialty Healthcare test to determine whether the bargaining unit...more
In two separate decisions, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has extended to the retail industry the standard for recognizing what is an “appropriate” bargaining unit that it established in Specialty Healthcare and...more
In September of 2013, the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology adopted a policy of excluding obstetrician/gynecologists from eligibility for Board certification and recertification if they treated any male patients....more
The Debate over Specialty Pharmaceuticals: Is the Promise Worth the Price? - ..What’s the Issue? - Specialty pharmaceuticals are a rapidly growing share of total drug expenditures by public and private health...more
In the first judicial challenge to the NLRB’s Specialty Healthcare decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has upheld the Board....more
In its 2011 decision in Specialty Healthcare, the National Labor Relations Board changed the test it uses to determine bargaining unit appropriateness. We reported on Specialty Healthcare for the American Bar Association and...more