Bob Dylan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the greatest American songwriters of all time, has effectively used wind as a metaphor in a number of songs he has written, each with its own distinct message....more
9/26/2023
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The Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure (MSBML) and Mississippi Board of Pharmacy (MBP) recently issued an important joint statement regarding the procurement of controlled substances by healthcare...more
The “law of unintended consequences” describes the general sociological principle that for every action there is an unintended or unanticipated outcome. An influential examination of the concept was published in 1936 by...more
On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (H.R. 5376) (“IRA”), a 730-page successor to the House-passed Build Back Better Act that failed to become law. By any measure, this is an...more
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Biden v. Missouri, CMS will require those states previously subject to federal district court injunctions to be compliant with the “Phase 1” requirements of its Interim Final Rule...more
2/14/2022
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Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Biden v. Missouri, CMS will require several states to be compliant with the “Phase 1” requirements of its Interim Final Rule (“IFC”) as of January 27, 2022. These states include...more
1/27/2022
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Jan. 19, 2022 - This article has been updated to reflect updated implementation dates in some states. On January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court issued dual decisions impacting the CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)...more
1/14/2022
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On December 15, 2021, a panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals partially affirmed an injunction entered by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on November 30, enjoining the Centers for Medicare...more
12/16/2021
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WHAT HAPPENED.
On April 16, 2021, the Mississippi State Department of Health published in draft form Regulations for Advertising and Marketing Medical Marijuana and Regulations for Labelling, Packaging and Tracking...more
On April 14, 2021, the Mississippi Supreme Court heard oral arguments concerning a lawsuit brought challenging the constitutionality of Initiative 65, the measure adopted by state voters in November of 2020, amending the...more
On March 30, 2021, the Mississippi State Department of Health published in draft form Regulations for Independent Medical Marijuana Testing Facilities. Just a few days later, on April 4, the Mississippi Legislature adjourned...more
On Monday, March 29, 2021, legislative conferees representing the Mississippi House of Representatives and the Mississippi Senate filed a Conference Report for House Bill 119, legislation that had been amended by the Senate...more
WHAT HAPPENED.
On Thursday, March 18, 2021, the Mississippi House of Representatives voted to Invite Conference on House Bill 119, legislation that includes an alternate Medical Marijuana program previously passed by the...more
WHAT HAPPENED.
Utilizing a creative legislative maneuver, the Mississippi Senate on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, inserted the text of an alternate Medical Marijuana program in a pending House Bill, HB 119 (introduced to...more
HHS recently (1) postponed the deadline for healthcare providers to submit reports on Provider Relief Fund payments that exceed $10,000 in the aggregate and (2) identified additional methods that healthcare providers may...more
HHS reverses course and again permits healthcare providers to apply Provider Relief Fund payments against patient care lost “revenues” rather than limiting such application only to patient care lost “net operating...more
In the CARES Act that became law with President Trump’s signature on March 27, $100 billion was set aside for “health care related expenses or lost revenues that are attributable” to the COVID-19 pandemic. Commonly referred...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced that it would soon be implementing new reporting requirements for hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers who received General and...more
In August of 2005, and for months afterwards, the attention of the country was sympathetically focused on the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.Though slow to respond, once the great machinery of government was awakened...more
Section 5001 (Division A, Title V) of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) passed by Congress earlier this year established the $150 billion Coronavirus Relief Fund (“Relief Fund”). Under this...more
7/22/2020
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On July 8, 2020, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves signed into law Senate Bill No. 3049, the “Mississippi Back-to-Business Liability Assurance and Health Care Emergency Response Liability Protection Act,” legislation designed...more
In the CARES Act that became law with President Trump’s signature on March 27, $100 billion (of the more than $2 trillion authorized in the bill) is set aside for “health care related expenses or lost revenues that are...more
On Thursday, April 23, 2020, the House of Representatives voted 388-5 to pass the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, sending the bill to President Trump for his signature. The Senate previously...more
At a White House press briefing on April 7, CMS Administrator, Seema Verma, announced that $30 billion of $100 billion in CARES Act funding designated for healthcare providers would be distributed this week. The announcement...more
As we reported in another item posted here, on March 13, 2020, pursuant to section 1135(b) of the Social Security Act, the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) invoked his authority to...more