On May 12, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey entered a decision dismissing a lawsuit filed by a Massachusetts radiation oncologist and a Pennsylvania neurosurgeon, which claimed New Jersey’s...more
On September 26, 2024, the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate. The bill would amend the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and direct the U.S....more
10/17/2024
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On June 24, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule establishing stringent financial penalties, referred to as “disincentives,” for healthcare providers found to have committed...more
7/11/2024
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The New Jersey Legislature recently addressed a key gap in the state’s involuntary commitment law, which has historically permitted a hospital to hold a patient in need of involuntary commitment for no more than 72 hours. The...more
What You Need to Know-
•The Hospital Price Transparency Rule requires hospitals to annually make public a comprehensive list of the hospital’s standard charges for provided items and services, including a display of charges...more
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•Medicare has historically made, and continues to make, substantial investments in the training of the country’s next generation of physicians. Payments are made to hospitals in the form of Graduate...more
As we reported previously in this post on our Healthcare Perspectives blog, the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this summer held that the federal government improperly lowered drug reimbursement payments to certain 340B hospitals...more
On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a complex, broad-sweeping piece of legislation that provides economic stimulus relief payments to individuals, businesses, and state and local...more
3/25/2021
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On October 29, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released an interim final rule with comment period that extends the compliance dates and...more
On May 15, 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed Executive Order 145, rescinding the suspension on elective surgeries and invasive procedures in the state effective 5:00am on May 26, 2020. The Governor further mandated...more
5/20/2020
The Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (the Act), a second round of emergency economic stimulus funding that was signed into law on April 24, 2020, allocates $484 billion to replenish and supplement...more
On April 14, 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a series of emergency bills into law. Two of the bills directly impact healthcare providers in New Jersey and legislate emergency measures that had previously been...more
On Friday, March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) was signed into law.
Title III of the Act, “Supporting America’s Health Care System in the Fight Against the Coronavirus,” is...more
On March 17, 2020, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of Civil Rights (OCR), took action to expand telehealth benefits for...more
3/21/2020
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