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Ep. 58 – Addressing Potential Discrimination in Patient Care Decision Support Tools

Dentons on 4/24/2025

Effective May 1, 2025, the Section 1557 regulations require covered healthcare providers to take reasonable steps by May 1, 2025, to identify and mitigate the risk of discrimination when they use AI and other emergency...more

‘Waking Up With Panic Attacks’: NIH 15% Plan Caps Tumultuous Weeks Under New Administration

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 3/3/2025

If NIH succeeds in imposing an across-the-board indirect cost rate of 15%, rough estimates indicate the University of Michigan could lose $119 million a year. Emory University could be down $75 million. For the University of...more

Top Ten Takeaways from California AG’s Healthcare AI Advisory

Alston & Bird on 1/17/2025

On January 13, 2025, California Attorney General (“AG”) Rob Bonda issued an advisory describing providers’ and businesses’ obligations related to the development, sale, and use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and automated...more

HHS Proposes Rules for Nondiscrimination in Health Care

K&L Gates LLP on 9/22/2015

On September 8, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) proposed new regulations implementing Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). Section 1557 prohibits...more

Labor Letter, July 2013: Updated Psychiatric Manual May Pose New Challenges for Employers

Fisher Phillips on 7/8/2013

Suppose a shy and awkward employee who just performed badly in a customer presentation brings a note from his doctor diagnosing “Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder” and asks not to have to meet with customers again as...more

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