The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) in the United States came to an end on May 11, 2023. Simultaneously, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that its enforcement...more
Amid the ongoing proliferation of headlines about the mental health crisis in the United States, of which substance use disorder is a large part, the recent issuance by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...more
1/18/2023
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The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (“Secretary”) issued a letter to healthcare providers ("Letter") and associated guidance on July 11, 2022, reminding applicable providers of their EMTALA...more
7/13/2022
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Alex Azar, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), declared a public health emergency related to the coronavirus pandemic (“Emergency Declaration”) on January 31, 2020. ...more
3/23/2020
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Members of Nelson Mullins' healthcare team will host a 90-minute webinar to discuss the Department of Health and Human Services' and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' new Stark and Anti-Kickback proposed rules, both...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposed rule (“Proposed Rule”) on October 9, 2019 to amend current regulations interpreting the Medicare physician self-referral law (the “Stark” law). ...more
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Even without expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, North Carolina has over 2.1 million residents who are Medicaid beneficiaries, and a half million of these have complex behavioral health needs....more