The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) resulted in many changes to the health care system. One of the most dramatic involved the introduction of regulatory flexibilities that enabled the rapid expansion of telehealth....more
To combat the effects of declining reimbursement levels, many physicians and practice groups offer ancillary services to improve patient care and supplement practice revenues. The delivery of these ancillary services, such as...more
Recently, the Iowa Legislature sent a bill to Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds for her signature that would make Iowa the sixth state to enact a comprehensive privacy law. The Iowa Senate unanimously passed Senate File 262 (SF 262)...more
Given the short timeframe required for CMS compliance, Facilities must act quickly to ensure they have, or can develop and implement, these new COVID-19 policies and procedures. Further, specific documentation standards and...more
Do you want a simple way to keep current on important privacy changes? Avoid sleepless nights wondering whether you missed a privacy speed bump or pothole between annual updates? Worry no longer. Troutman Pepper is pleased to...more
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an order and opinion on August 17 holding that medical peer review documents do not need to be generated by a “peer review committee” to be protected under the Pennsylvania Peer Review...more
On July 1, U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury, as well as the Office of Personnel Management, issued an interim final rule implementing the No Surprises Act (Act) and requesting...more
Who Needs to Know -
All health care employers covered by the Emergency Temporary Standard and all employers in other industries, including a workforce with both vaccinated and unvaccinated employees. ...more
Facial recognition technology (FRT) has become the new normal for many of us. We use it to unlock our phones or to sign into various apps. But unlocking our cell phones is just one of the many ways we may experience FRT;...more
Patient access to behavioral health and substance use disorder services has increasingly become the subject of legislation. Although the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA), introduced in 2008,...more
Why It Matters -
Businesses should begin to address these issues now so that when COVID-19 vaccines are ready for distribution, they will be too....more
12/16/2020
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Why It Matters -
Businesses should begin to address these issues now so that when COVID-19 vaccines are ready for distribution, they will be too.
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On August 12, 2020, Troutman Pepper published an advisory summarizing the workplace requirements of Virginia’s new COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) for infectious disease prevention. While most of the ETS is...more
Since April 2020, many health care providers have received payments from the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund (PRF) in the form of general or targeted distributions. Many providers have questions about receiving and using these...more
8/7/2020
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