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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Solving for Physician Burnout: How Organizations Can Deploy AI Solutions to Effectively Support Physician Workloads and Avoid...

This series explores legal issues related to physician burnout and potential solutions. Our first post addressed how healthcare organizations can foster the psychological safety and emotional wellbeing of their physicians....more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

New Guidance on Family Planning in Medicaid: Takeaways for States, Plans, and Providers

For states, managed care organizations, and providers—who all play a vital role in ensuring access to family planning services and supplies for the nearly 20 million women ages 18-44 enrolled in Medicaid1—the CIB reiterates...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Overlapping surgeries: Time for a compliance checkup?

Overlapping surgeries is a practice that has been used for many years by healthcare providers (such as hospitals and surgical centers). This practice generally refers to situations where one lead attending surgeon is...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Medicaid Overpayment Audits: What Medical Providers Need to Know

The Audit Process - While Medicaid audits are meant to ensure integrity and efficiency of the Medicaid Program, they can often be incredibly cumbersome and challenging for medical providers to navigate. During an audit,...more

Brooks Pierce

Business Associate Victim of Ransomware Attack Pays $100,000 to HHS OCR

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Is your organization a business associate? You could be subject to enforcement action if you fail to protect health information within your control from ransomware attacks. In October, for the first time, the U.S....more

Wiley Rein LLP

New AI Executive Order Outlines Sweeping Approach to AI

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On October 30, 2023, the White House released an Executive Order for Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (EO), which outlines a sweeping plan for encouraging the development and managing the risks of...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Can Doctors Respond to Online Reviews?

In today’s digital era, online reviews have become a significant influence on consumer decision-making, including when it comes to selecting healthcare providers. With platforms like Yelp, Google, and specialized medical...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Enhancing Access to Medicaid Family Planning Program Services: State-Level Best Practices

Editor’s Note: In a new issue brief prepared with the support of Arnold Ventures, Manatt Health shares an array of best practice strategies in place across the nation to serve as an actionable road map for states that might...more

Stevens & Lee

Policy Considerations for Voice-Controlled Devices Used in Senior Care Facilities

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Over the last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic created a variety of challenges to both health care systems and the individuals they serve, but dire circumstances also fostered particular health care innovations....more

J.S. Held

SARS-CoV-2 Disinfection and Potential Overuse Adverse Health Effects

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The use of surface disinfection products boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic. These products continue to flourish as a mechanism to reduce the transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2 that...more

Foley Hoag LLP

National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan Summary

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The White House has released a COVID-19 preparedness plan that assumes we will be living with the virus for the long term. The 96-page plan has four primary goals: (1) protect against and treat COVID-19, (2) prepare for...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Service Line Development in Academic Health Systems

An integrated service line organizes multidisciplinary services across the care continuum to serve a defined patient cohort. This patient-centric structure improves patient experience, clinical outcomes and operating...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Relevant Highlights: Hearing to Consider the Nomination of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to be Administrator for the Centers for Medicare...

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This morning, the United States Senate Committee on Finance questioned Pres. Biden’s nominee, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, for Administrator for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as well as Andrea Palm, the nominee...more

McDermott Will & Emery

FDA Update: Enforcement Policies for Gowns, Gloves, Sterilizers, Disinfectant Devices and Air Purifiers

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In response to growing medical product supply shortages and need for information, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently issued multiple enforcement policies to provide guidance to industry. Here, we focus on...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

OSHA Guidance Allows Alternatives in Light of N95 Shortage Due to Coronavirus

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On April 3, 2020, OSHA issued enforcement guidance that temporarily permits the extended and re-use of respirators as well as other alternatives, and clarifies when respirators, including N95 masks, may continue to be used...more

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The Transport of Coronavirus by Exhaled Breath and Possible Protection with Homemade Face Coverings

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As recently as March 27, the WHO was stating on its website that there was insufficient evidence to suggest that the novel coronavirus was airborne except in a handful of medical cases, such as when intubating an infected...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

CDC Provides Recommendations for Respirators When N95 Respirators Are Not Available in COVID-19 Crisis

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To combat shortages of N95 respirators, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued and continues to update its Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of N95 Respirators. The CDC’s N95 Respirator Strategies provide...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] Keeping Medicaid’s Promise for Children With Special Healthcare Needs - October 2nd, 3:00 pm ET

How can state Medicaid agencies, families, advocates, providers and other stakeholders partner to improve access to services for Medicaid-enrolled children with special healthcare needs? Find out during a new webinar from...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Healthcare Executives and Physician Leaders Discuss Latest Trends and Challenges in Delivering High-Quality Patient Care at AMGA’s...

Healthcare in the United States is at a crossroads, with technology, new market “disrupters,” and seemingly intractable problems converging. At least that was the central theme we observed at the annual meeting of the...more

The Volkov Law Group

Focusing on “Payments” to Healthcare Professionals (Part I of III)

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The United States healthcare industry poses an infinite number of risks when it comes to interactions with healthcare professionals. Given the aggressive regulation and enforcement of prohibitions against kickbacks and...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Monitoring in Healthcare: Best Practices for Corporate Compliance

This week, I am running a special five-part podcast series, Monitoring in Healthcare. In it, I take a deep dive into healthcare monitoring and how the pro-active use of a healthcare monitor can positively impact all...more

K&L Gates LLP

K&L Gates Triage: Avoiding the Risks Associated with Mandatory Vaccination Programs

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This episode discusses the risks associated with mandatory employee vaccination programs and practical tips for health care entities on how to minimize these risks from an employment law perspective. In particular, this...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

The Tech Industry’s Next Frontier?

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Tongue-in-cheek references to Pokémon Go as a health App aside, maybe the tech industry is on to something. In the U.S., seven out of every ten deaths are due to chronic diseases, such as diabetes or heart disease. Perhaps...more

BakerHostetler

DOJ Takes Aim at Responsible Individuals in Corporate Investigations

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U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates recently announced new instructions for attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), outlining in a memorandum the DOJ’s policies with respect to civil and criminal...more

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Did Recent Changes in the Patent Laws Turn the Page on the Need for Accurate Laboratory Notebooks?

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With the enactment of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), the U.S. patent system moved to a “first inventor to file” approach for examining all applications having an effective filing date on or after March 16, 2013....more

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