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Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 - April 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Tolling, Tolling, Tolling, Keep Those COVID-19 National Emergency Deadlines Tolling

On February 18, President Biden announced that the COVID-19 National Emergency would continue beyond March 1, 2022, for up to another year. As a result of the continuing National Emergency, the “tolling” of several important...more

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Data Breach Notification Laws in the United States: What is Required and How is that Determined?

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Has your business considered what obligations you would have to notify people in the event of a cyber-attack that compromises some or all of your IT systems? Have you cataloged all the data you collect and where it is stored...more

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Applications Open for $200 Million COVID-19 Telehealth Program

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As a follow up to our legal alert posted on April 7, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") announced that it is accepting applications for its $200 million COVID-19 Telehealth Program as of April 13, 2020. As a...more

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FCC Adopts New Programs to Help Telehealth Services Combat COVID-19

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Update 04.10.2020: The FCC has launched an online portal explaining the application process for grants from the $200 million in funding to support telehealth services described in this client update. The FCC will begin...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

COVID-19: Resources for Oncology Providers (Telehealth, Clinical Trials, Reporting Deadlines)

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), and other Federal and State agencies and...more

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A National Registry of COIVD-19 Patients: The Legal Implications

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Medical data companies are reportedly volunteering to join the fight against COVID-19 by offering to broadly share confidential, HIPAA-protected patient medical information they possess, including patient demographics,...more

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California Makes It Easier to Provide Telehealth Services During the COVID-19 Emergency

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Recognizing the need to make health services available during the current state of emergency, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-43-20 (the “Order”) on April 3, 2020. The Order temporarily expands the...more

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Recent Trends in Telemedicine in China

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The COVID-19 outbreak inevitability has spurred unprecedented progress on a paradigm shift to telemedicine. According to a recent study by the Boston Consulting Group, China is already the world’s third largest Med Tech...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

FCC Moves Forward with COVID-19 Telehealth Program

The Program will guide disbursement of $200 million to health care providers for connected care services. Health care providers interested in receiving funds must complete a three-step process that requires advance planning....more

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Health CARES - Title III of the CARES Act Impact on Telehealth

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As we previously reported, Congress passed and the President signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Pub. L. 116-136) (“CARES Act”) on March 27, 2020. We recently provided guidance on how the CARES Act...more

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Navigating COVID-19: Medicare Advantage and Part D Prescription Drug Plans

As the COVID-19 pandemic has emerged over the past month, state insurance departments have issued directives in reaction to the crisis, requiring such actions as a temporary moratorium on cancellations and coverage for...more

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Buchalter Client Alert COVID-19: CMS Issues Blanket Waivers of Stark Law During COVID-19 Emergency

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, (“CMS”) announced this week that it will pay claims for designated health services related to COVID-19 that would ordinarily violate the Stark Law. On March 30, 2020, the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

CMS Issues Broad Package of Blanket Waivers Under Section 1135

The updated waivers build upon the more limited set of Section 1135 waivers issued on March 13, 2020, and address common concerns among Medicare providers and suppliers as they deal with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic....more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

FCC Chairman Proposes Plan to Implement CARES Act Funding for Telehealth Program

On Monday, the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Ajit Pai, circulated a plan to his fellow Commissioners detailing how the $200 million the agency will receive via the CARES Act should be deployed for a...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CMS' Blanket Waiver of Stark Law Sanctions During the COVID-19 Outbreak: Opportunities and Limitations | Healthcare Law Blog

On Monday, March, 30, 2020, CMS released a blanket waiver (the “Waiver”) of the physician self-referral law under section 1135 of the Social Security Act to enable health care provider responses to the COVID-19 outbreak. ...more

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CMS Eases Healthcare Provider Enrollment Process in Response to COVID-19 Crisis

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As the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to strain the healthcare industry, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) eased healthcare provider enrollment rules. CMS has significantly streamlined...more

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HHS Limited Waiver and Guidance on HIPAA and the Privacy Rule During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued various guidance documents on compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of...more

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HIPAA and COVID-19 Updates: The Office for Civil Rights Provides Additional Guidance on Permitted Disclosures to First Responders

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Since the COVID-19 outbreak, many health care providers have had a myriad of HIPAA questions, including questions about whether they can share some types of information and, if so, the type of information they can share with...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Expansion of Telehealth During the COVID-19 Emergency

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On March 6, Congress passed the Coronavirus Supplemental Appropriations Act (H.R. 6074), which included a $500 million authorization to enhance telehealth services. The legislation gives the U.S. Department of Health and...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Global Pandemic Response Communications and Information Sharing

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What Every Company Needs to Know Now About the Regulatory Guidance and Industry Trends on Privacy and Security for COVID-19 Health Data Collection, Disclosure and Work at Home - Companies worldwide are scrambling to...more

Akerman LLP

Telehealth And COVID-19: Federal Update

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Unsurprisingly, COVID-19 has greatly liberalized federal and state telehealth requirements previously in place. What has not changed is the fact that telehealth services are governed by a number of different laws and...more

Pullman & Comley - Connecticut Health Law

Connecticut Further Expands Coverage of Telehealth Services During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

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

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

1135 Waivers: HHS Authority to Alleviate Healthcare Regulatory Requirements During the COVID-19 National Emergency

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As the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to tick upward in the United States, administrative agencies are taking steps on a national scale to ensure that adequate healthcare items...more

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Enforcement of HIPAA Rules for Telehealth Relaxed Due to COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

On Friday, March 20, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced it will “exercise its enforcement discretion and will not impose penalties for noncompliance with the regulatory...more

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