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Healthcare in the West Is on Life Support: Legislative and Immigration Barriers Leave Physician Gaps Unfilled

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Across the Mountain West—Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming—physician shortages are straining healthcare systems, particularly in rural and frontier communities. In response, state legislatures in the...more

Baker Donelson

Looking Back at 2024: Key Health Care Regulatory Legal Developments in Fraud and Abuse, Compliance, and Enforcement

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The health care regulatory space realized significant regulatory and enforcement developments in 2024 that are influencing how providers and industry stakeholders approach various compliance measures and enforcement...more

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A State-Based Cure – Interested Government Agency J-1 Waivers For Physicians

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Originally published in Healthcare Michigan, Volume 41,  No. 1 - Recently, the president of the American Medical Association, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, stated in a national address that the physician shortage long-feared is...more

Clark Hill PLC

Recent Changes to California’s J-1 Waiver Program Have Significant Consequences for Healthcare Employers and Foreign Physicians

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The California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) recently announced a series of changes to the California Conrad 30 J-1 waiver program that have important implications for healthcare employers in...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

J-1 Waivered Physicians: Meeting Patient Needs

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Health care employers in many areas of the U.S. continue to have difficulty recruiting physicians to meet patient needs. One option that may be useful to health care employers when a U.S. physician cannot be recruited is...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Maryland Extends J-1 Conrad 30 Waiver Application Deadline

Maryland health care employers and J-1 physicians who commit to serve the underserved in Maryland and who missed the Dec. 1 J-1 Conrad 30 waiver application deadline are in luck: The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) has...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

J-1 Waiver Options For Physicians Expanded Through Regional Commissions

As this blog has touched on from several different perspectives over the years, one perpetual issue facing International Medical Graduates who come to the United States on J-1 exchange visas to engage in residency/fellowship...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

New ACGME recognition for non-standard training of J-1 exchange visitor physicians

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New ACGME recognition for non-standard training of J-1 exchange visitor physicians - International medical graduates who seek entry into U.S. programs of graduate medical education (GME) or training must obtain an...more

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Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act

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Companion pieces of legislation have been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate that aim to alleviate some of the long delays for medical professionals seeking to live and work in the United States...more

Burr & Forman

Healthcare Immigration Update Addressing Medical Staff Shortages in the COVID-19 Crisis

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The COVID-19 crisis has strained the field of medicine in the United States more than any other time in the last 100 years. In an effort to provide some relief for nurses and doctors, legislators recently proposed The...more

Clark Hill PLC

Bill Would Recapture 40,000 Green Cards for Doctors and Nurses

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On May 4, 2020, a bipartisan group of Senators introduced a bill to recapture 40,000 lost green cards, and give them to much needed doctors and nurses. The Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act would speed the ability of...more

UB Greensfelder LLP

Judge Says Canadian Physicians Are Eligible for H-1B Admission Regardless of the J-1 Two-Year Foreign Residency Requirement

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A federal judge in New York has ruled that Canadian physicians who are subject to the J-1 two-year foreign residency requirement may enter the United States in H-1B status, even though they have not spent two years in Canada...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Health Care Organizations and Immigration: Employer Considerations

Health care organizations of all types, including hospitals, health systems, insurers, pharmaceutical companies and research universities, seek to employ the best and the brightest to deliver quality care and pursue the...more

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