Happy 2024! The entire Saul Ewing Health Law Practice Group wishes you and yours a healthy and prosperous new year and successful (and compliant) activities in the health care delivery system this year and beyond....more
2/2/2024
/ Ambulatory Surgery Centers ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Controlled Substances Act ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
HIPAA Violations ,
Hospitals ,
Information Technology ,
Marijuana ,
Medicare ,
Nursing Homes ,
OCR ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Popular ,
Price Transparency ,
Private Equity ,
Telehealth
One year ago – in early 2020 – most of us did not know what COVID-19 meant (co-Corona; vi-Virus; d-disease; 19 – 2019); had no idea how to “zoom”; did not know what social distance meant; and, were largely unfamiliar with...more
2/18/2021
/ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Hospitals ,
Medicaid ,
Medical Records ,
Medicare ,
Physicians ,
Stark Law ,
Tax Reform ,
Telehealth ,
Vaccinations
On April 16, the Illinois Department of Public Health notified the State Emergency Operations Center that hospitals may need to institute crisis standards of care pursuant to their disaster response plans. The day prior, the...more