The Connecticut Office of Health Strategy (OHS) has released the 2024 Statewide Health Care Facilities and Services Plan, along with a biennial inventory of all Connecticut health care facilities and services (the Plan)....more
UPDATED MAY 14, 2024 NOTE: The legislative session of the Connecticut General Assembly ended on May 8, 2024. The bills discussed in this blog did not pass. We will be monitoring new developments in the law regarding...more
Pullman & Comley’s annual review of significant case law affecting Connecticut health care providers summarizes a number of important decisions issued in 2023 by Connecticut state and federal courts. Among the highlights are...more
1/19/2024
/ Antitrust Violations ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
CT Supreme Court ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Medical Malpractice ,
Opinion Letter ,
Patients ,
Surprise Medical Bills ,
Tortious Interference ,
Unfair Trade Practices Act
On October 10, 2023, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a new temporary rule which extends, through December 31, 2024, the ability of ...more
10/24/2023
/ Controlled Substances ,
DEA ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Electronic Prescribing ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine ,
Temporary Regulations
Group medical practices in Connecticut and New York that are contemplating acquisitions, mergers or other significant transactions with third parties should pay close attention to new legal developments in these states....more
7/31/2023
/ Acquisition Agreements ,
Business Ownership ,
Certificate of Need ,
Change of Ownership ,
Connecticut ,
Corporate Sales Transactions ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare ,
Merger Agreements ,
New York ,
Notice Requirements ,
Regulatory Requirements
Since July 1, 2016, Connecticut has had a law (CGS §20-14p) which, among other things, places a one year and 15 mile restriction on all physician non-compete agreements. Effective July 1, 2023, the law has been revised...more
6/30/2023
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Former Employee ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Labor Reform ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Nurses ,
Physician Assistants ,
Physicians
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) used its emergency waiver authority to relax many aspects of health care delivery during the federal Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 (PHE) to allow health care...more
5/3/2023
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Medicare ,
Patient Access ,
Public Health Emergency ,
Telehealth ,
Telemedicine ,
Waivers
Significant health care cases of 2022 included a surprise billing unfair trade practices case, a class action recognizing a patient’s constitutionally protected interest in their inpatient classification and a ruling...more
1/31/2023
/ Connecticut ,
CUTPA ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare ,
Hospitals ,
Informed Consent ,
Medical Devices ,
Medical Malpractice ,
Medical Records ,
Medicare ,
Patients ,
Surprise Medical Bills
Having learned some difficult lessons from the clinical shortages that have accompanied the Covid-19 pandemic, Connecticut’s General Assembly passed two important pieces of legislation last session to provide physicians with...more
Can a 40-year-old fraud and abuse law that compared to many others is relatively straightforward still get providers into trouble? Answer: You bet! In fact, in the first quarter of 2022 alone, the U.S. Attorney for the...more
4/19/2022
/ Best Practices ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Billing ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) ,
Medicaid ,
Medical Reimbursement ,
Medicare ,
OIG ,
Settlement Agreements
Befitting a year in which the lingering COVID-19 pandemic caused delays in almost every aspect of daily life, Pullman & Comley’s annual survey of notable health law cases from Connecticut’s trial and appellate courts makes...more
2/21/2022
/ AIDS ,
Certificate of Need ,
CT Supreme Court ,
Duty of Care ,
First Impression ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
HIV ,
Judicial Review ,
Liability ,
Negligence ,
Physicians ,
Product Defects ,
Statutory Violations ,
Vicarious Liability
The 2021 legislative session of the Connecticut General Assembly was a particularly busy one with dozens of important new statutes being enacted that will impact the health care industry. We’ve highlighted below some of the...more
9/27/2021
/ Admissions ,
Bias ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Controlled Substances ,
Cybersecurity ,
Electronic Medical Records ,
Employee Training ,
Essential Workers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance ,
Healthcare Reform ,
Marijuana ,
Medicaid ,
Negligent Credentialing ,
Workplace Illness and Injury Reporting
Note: Public Act 21-133 was amended on July 7, 2021. The article below incorporates those amendments and replaces our prior post on this topic.
With the proliferation of new digital platforms and increasing consumer...more
While much of the health care industry looks to put this year in the rear view mirror, planning ahead for Connecticut providers who treat Medicare beneficiaries requires taking stock of the recently issued Physician Fee...more
Doctors, nurses, hospitals and other health care providers, should know that the pandemic has not deterred federal or state authorities from prosecuting false claims, HIPAA and other types of enforcement actions in...more
11/4/2020
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Drug Distribution ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Infectious Diseases ,
Medicaid Reimbursements ,
Medicare Billing Privileges ,
OxyContin ,
Pain Management ,
PHI ,
Restitution
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many states issued guidance to hospitals and acute care providers about how to ration and allocate ventilators during the surge. ...more
In what promises to be a significant ruling, this week a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated several key aspects of the Families First Coronavirus Relief Act...more
On May 14, 2020, Deidre S. Gifford, the newly-appointed Acting Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health, issued an Order reinstating the requirement that a request for collection or analysis of a COVID-19...more
On April 22, 2020, Governor Lamont issued Executive Order No. 7DD that expands the ability of health care providers to offer services remotely. This Executive Order also expands the health care workforce in Connecticut in...more
On April 7, 2020, Governor Lamont issued Executive Order No. 7V, which amends in part Executive Order No. 7U issued on April 5. The April 5 Order added new protections from civil liability for certain health care...more
On April 5, 2020, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont issued a much-anticipated Executive Order that provides immunity from civil liability to health care professionals and certain facilities supporting the state’s COVID-19...more
Governor Lamont Forms Health System Response Team -
Earlier today, Governor Ned Lamont announced a collaboration among three of the largest hospital systems in Connecticut (Hartford HealthCare, Nuvance Health, and Yale New...more
As anticipated in our prior blog, Novel Coronavirus Hastens the Expansion of Remote Care in Connecticut, the State of Connecticut continues to expand the availability of services via telehealth during the COVID-19 public...more
Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a sweeping expansion of Medicare coverage for telehealth services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic while separately the Connecticut Department of Social Services (“DSS”)...more
Our annual survey of health law cases for 2019 includes a number of notable decisions affecting the practice of medicine and the delivery of other health care services in Connecticut. These include the Connecticut Supreme...more
2/20/2020
/ Affordable Care Act ,
Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Attorney's Fees ,
Class Action ,
Contempt ,
CT Supreme Court ,
Dispute Resolution ,
Duty of Care ,
Failure to Produce ,
Federal Funding ,
Fraudulent Transfers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Facilities ,
Hearing-Impaired ,
Hospitals ,
Informed Consent ,
Medical Debt ,
Medical Malpractice ,
Medical Records ,
Medicare ,
Negligence ,
Nursing Homes ,
Patients ,
Pending Litigation ,
Prior Authorization ,
Rehabilitation Act ,
Transfer of Assets