On January 4, the USPTO announced the appointment of new leaders for the agency’s policy and communications teams. Sharon Israel will serve as the Chief Policy Officer and Director for International Affairs, and Jack...more
The federal Provider Relief Fund (“PRF”) continues to render financial assistance to medical providers that offer diagnoses, testing or treatment of individuals with possible or actual cases of COVID-19. To date, the U.S....more
On June 3, 2021, the Seventh Circuit upheld a decision by the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois to dismiss a home health agency’s lawsuit against a Medicare integrity contractor for temporarily...more
- HHS is overhauling its process for developing interpretive guidance documents under a new Proposed Rule. - HHS proposes to no longer use “guidance documents” to establish broadly applicable legal obligations on the...more
n a motion filed last week in Alexander v. Azar, No. 3:11-cv-1703-MPS (D. Conn.), HHS argued that it cannot be sued by Medicare beneficiaries objecting to a hospital’s decision to admit them as inpatients instead of placing...more
On October 27, 2016, a three-judge panel for the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued an opinion concluding that a Medicare fiscal intermediary (Intermediary) does not have the authority to enter into a...more
On July 26, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decided Fla. Health Sciences Ctr. v. Burwell. In that case, the Court analyzed a statutory bar against judicial review of estimates...more
On March 7, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of hospital system’s request for a mandamus order directing HHS to provide a hearing before an...more