In response to the wave of rural hospital closures and financial difficulties, Congress created a new Medicare provider designation, the Rural Emergency Hospital (REH). The new designation was created in the Consolidated...more
As part of our recent Health Care Amid and After COVID-19 webinar series, Faegre Drinker Partner Neil Olderman spoke to Brendan Schepis of Stamford Health and Suzzanne Thomson Quintero of Orlando Health to discuss each...more
In early April, the Federal Reserve announced proposed terms for the Main Street Loan Program. The program is designed to provide small and medium-sized businesses that were in sound financial condition prior to the outbreak...more
The Society of Critical Care Medicine estimates that the United States has over 200,000 ventilators, although other organizations have lower estimates. ...more
On March 4, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that State Survey Agencies and Accrediting Organizations would be limited exclusively to issues related to infection control and other serious...more
New legislation signed on March 18, 2020, will bring tens of millions more masks per month into the hands of U.S. health care workers. The new legislation protects N95 mask manufacturers against lawsuits if an N95 face mask...more