On June 7, 2022, Governor Jared Polis signed into law the Colorado False Claims Act (CFCA) at Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 24-31-101 et seq. The CFCA is largely based on the Federal False Claims Act (FCA), but is not an exact...more
It has been almost two years since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) first issued blanket waivers of certain hospital conditions of participation allowing healthcare systems and hospitals to provide hospital...more
The CMS vaccine rule -- which applies to the staff of many Medicare- and Medicaid-certified providers such as hospitals, long-term care facilities, home-health agencies, and hospices (“covered entities”), and which has...more
12/16/2021
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On November 4, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule that requires most Medicare and Medicaid certified providers and suppliers to vaccinate staff members within 60 days. The...more
11/8/2021
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has continued to publish food safety updates relating to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic throughout the pandemic. Foley’s Food and Beverage team have continued to monitor and...more
Not necessarily. In the past two weeks, the Office of Inspector General (OIG), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) watchdog, released two new FAQs regarding the Application of OIG’s Administrative Enforcement...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) in March 2020 temporarily halted its domestic inspection program amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. During this time, FDA continued to use other tools, including...more
On May 4, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updated its “Policy for Coronavirus Disease-2019 Tests During the Public Health Emergency (Revised) | Immediately in Effect Guidance for Clinical Laboratories, Commercial...more
On Sunday, April 26th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Department of Labor (DOL) issued interim guidance specific to the meat and poultry processing industry to facilitate ongoing operations and...more
Massachusetts section below updated as of April 17, 2020 -
As the coronavirus pandemic grips the United States, many state and local governments have enacted stay in place restrictions that limit not only routine personal...more
In light of the COVID-19 public health emergency (Pandemic), on April 2, 2020, Governor Brad Little of Idaho issued a proclamation (Proclamation) that suspended 18 regulations (in addition to the 125 previously suspended...more
As the coronavirus pandemic grips the United States, many state and local governments have enacted stay in place restrictions that limit not only routine personal activity but commercial activities as well. In the absence of...more
...The coronavirus (provisionally named SARS-CoV-2, with its disease being named COVID-19) has been documented in six of the world’s seven continents (sparing only Antarctica), in more than 70 countries and territories. More...more
3/6/2020
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