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Health Care Providers Amended Legislation

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Tennessee Removes COVID-19 Statute’s Sunset Provision

Tennessee has permanently extended its COVID-19 statute under an enactment that went into effect earlier this year. Senate Bill (SB) 11, signed into law with immediate effect by Governor Bill Lee on March 21, 2023,...more

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Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 11. Privacy Briefs: November 2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 11 (November 2020) - HHS Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology (ONC) is giving health care organizations more time to meet new rules on information...more

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The $2 Trillion Federal CARES Act: The Key Financial Assistance Provisions, Key Legislative Changes, and Next Steps

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The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) is a comprehensive economic relief plan designed to stabilize and uplift the American economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is unique not only because...more

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Ohio Court of Appeals Holds that Price Transparency Law Is Unconstitutional Under the Ohio Constitution

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The Ohio Legislature enacted a law that would have required healthcare providers to furnish patients with an estimate of their expected medical charges before receiving a medical service, but it enacted that statute as part...more

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Happy New Year, PAs and Supervising Physicians! Amendments to the California Physician Assistant Practice Act Simplify Supervision...

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Prior to these changes, physicians and PAs had to enter into “delegation of services agreements,” specifically delegating the medical services a PA could perform. If multiple physicians were supervising the PA – such as in a...more

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Thoughts on Recent Amendments to the Florida Patient Brokering Act - The Sky Is Not Falling

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The Florida Legislature recently amended the Florida Patient Brokering Act (PBA), effective July 1, 2019. Since then, a raft of articles have argued that long-standing arrangements between healthcare providers and potential...more

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Florida: Changes to the State Patient Brokering Act

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This is an uncomfortable summer for health care providers in Florida!  The legal landscape changed dramatically over the 4th of July holiday. Buried in Florida’s HB 369 regarding substance abuse services was a dramatic...more

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Significant Changes to Florida’s Patient Brokering Act: Uncertainty Lies Ahead - Healthcare Alert

A pair of legislative and judicial developments in the last month has the potential to significantly impact healthcare providers doing business in Florida. Until some of the uncertainty is resolved, healthcare providers would...more

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New Jersey Creates Employment Protections for Medical Cannabis Patients and Providers

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As of July 2, 2019, New Jersey has extended workplace protections to employees and healthcare practitioners engaging in activities authorized by New Jersey’s “Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act” (the “Act”),...more

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Vermont’s New Telemedicine Law Expands Insurance Coverage, Bans Recording

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Vermont health care providers and patients can now enjoy a revamped, and significantly improved, telehealth commercial insurance coverage law. Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed S. 50 into law on June 7, 2017, expanding...more

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Why Arizona’s New Telemedicine Law Sends an Important Message

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Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed a bill (S.B. 1363) into law, on May 17, 2016, requiring private health plans to pay for telemedicine services across the whole state rather than only services received in rural areas of the...more

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Changes to New York Telehealth Coverage Coming Soon

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After New York became the 22nd state to enact a telemedicine commercial coverage statute, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an amendment changing the statute. The amendment makes sweeping changes to telehealth coverage under New...more

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Telehealth Commercial Coverage and Parity Laws: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

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There will always be differences among state laws on telehealth coverage, but what is remarkable is the rapidly increasing pace at which states have been adopting coverage statutes in the last few years, with currently 29...more

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North Carolina General Assembly Week in Review

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NC State Government is currently operating under a Continuing Resolution (CR), SB 560, 2015 Continuing Budget Authority. This CR is set to expire at 11:59 pm on August 31, 2015. With less than two weeks before the CR...more

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