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Holland Knight Health Dose: September 17, 2024

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Holland & Knight Health Dose Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] The Regulatory and Legislative Trends Reshaping Health Care - May 16th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am PST

From the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) to the overturning of Roe v. Wade to the growth of AI in health care, multiple forces are converging to remap the health care landscape. In a new webinar, Manatt...more

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[Webinar] Pushing the Envelope in School-Based Services: Graduating to a Higher Level of Pediatric Care - January 17th, 1:00 pm -...

In spite of increasing health care coverage for children, there has been an overall decline in the utilization of preventive and wellness services. This falling utilization is especially pronounced in lower-income households...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] The Legal, Regulatory and Market Trends Transforming Health Care - October 5th, 9:30 am - 10:30 am PT

From the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) to the overturning of Roe v. Wade to the skyrocketing growth of virtual care, multiple forces are converging to remap the health care landscape. In a new webinar,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

High Deductible Health Plan First Dollar Coverages in Flux

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A recent string of lawsuits, regulatory guidance, and market trends have dramatically impacted the types of services that enjoy first dollar coverage under high deductible health plan (HDHP) and health savings account (HSA)...more

McDermott Will & Emery

OIG Issues AO on Providing Gift Cards for Completed Colon Cancer Screening Tests

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The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued Advisory Opinion (AO) 23-03, analyzing a proposed arrangement in which a company that manufactures an at-home colon cancer...more

King & Spalding

OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion Regarding Laboratory Arrangement to Offer Discounts

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On March 29, 2023, OIG posted Advisory Opinion No. 23-03 regarding a laboratory’s proposed arrangement to provide a prepaid card of up to $75 to encourage individuals to return the sample collection kit associated with the...more

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OIG Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion on Gift Cards to Incentivize Patients to Return Samples for At-Home Colorectal Cancer...

The Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) recently issued yet another favorable Advisory Opinion on the use of gift cards to motivate patients to receive medically necessary or...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

OIG Approves Gift Cards to Promote Patient Compliance with a Preventive Screening Measure

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently issued Advisory Opinion 23-03, approving a proposal by the manufacturer of a colorectal cancer screening test and its wholly owned...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Court Invalidates Certain Preventive Care Requirements

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Summary - Health plans and insurance policies may no longer be required to cover the full cost of preventive care that carries an A or B rating by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), following a recent ruling...more

Snell & Wilmer

Proposed Rules Expand Access to Contraceptive Care as a Preventive Service

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On January 30, 2023, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor (collectively “the Departments”) issued proposed rules entitled “Coverage of Certain Preventive Services under the Affordable Care Act”...more

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Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - March 2022

Whatever your political leanings, you have to appreciate President Biden's deep personal and tragic connection to the No. 2 killer of Americans, cancer. The disease killed his oldest adult son in the prime of his life, right...more

Snell & Wilmer

Departments Clarify that HIV PrEP Services Must Be Free by September 17

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Back in June of 2019, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (“USPSTF”) released an A-rated recommendation for HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis (“PrEP”). As a result, the Affordable Care Act’s preventive care rules...more

McDermott Will & Emery

HPE Miami 2021: Sub-Sector Insights - Behavioral Health

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Proper care coordination and preventative care can lead to significant cost-savings. For instance, every $1 spent on proper medication-assisted treatment can save the individual’s community between $4 and $11. The...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] Next-Generation Strategies to Transform Pediatric Primary Care - December 2nd, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm ET

A New Manatt Webinar—Based on a Just-Released Report by the MA Child and Adolescent Health Initiative—Shares Cutting-Edge Strategies for Improving Child and Family Health Outcomes Through Pediatric Primary Care. For years,...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Department of Labor Narrows Health Care Provider Exemption to FFCRA Paid Leave Entitlement

Late yesterday, the Department of Labor (DOL) published regulatory guidance relating to employee paid leave entitlements under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). The guidance predominantly further responds...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 - July 2020 #2

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

Epstein Becker & Green

Recommendations for Health Care Providers in Managing COVID-19

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On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared that COVID-19 is now a pandemic. The effects continue to be felt in the United States, which now has well over 1,000 confirmed novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...more

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University of Michigan doctor accused of decades of sexual misconduct

The University of Michigan is investigating allegations that Robert E. Anderson, former head of the university health service and physician to UM football teams coached by Bo Schembechler and Lloyd Carr, sexually assaulted...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Hospital tries to stick ER nurse with $1 million in debt for her preemie’s care

It’s the price and cost problem, stupid. That’s a fictitious but new tattoo that voters might want politicians to take up as they consider the many major problems with the American health care system, especially as yet more...more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

Go figure: In era of Big Data, numbers and statistics still bedevil medicine

Big data and numbers may seem to drive the world these days, but human factors can play a dizzying role when it comes to statistics and medical treatments....more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury...

With costly medical over-testing, causes can be blurry, solutions complex

Although experts estimate medical over-testing adds more than $200 billion in wasted spending in the U.S. health care system, reducing it can be hard, as we can see from one example in eye surgery....more

Burr & Forman

A Taxonomy of Health Wellness Programs – Part II

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A health wellness program is broadly defined as any program of health promotion or disease prevention. My recent article entitled “Taxonomy of Health Wellness Programs – Part I” reviewed the classification of health wellness...more

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Nevada’s Direct Primary Care Crisis

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In 2012, Turntable Health opened its doors in downtown Las Vegas with one goal—providing preventive healthcare at a reasonable cost. As a direct primary care (“DPC”) clinic, Turntable Health offered unlimited access to...more

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Why Isn’t My “Free” Preventive Health Care Free?

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In my opinion, one of the best changes made by the Affordable Care Act is the mandate that requires health plans to provide certain specified preventive services without imposing any cost sharing. This is sometimes referred...more

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