AGG Talks: Home Health & Hospice - Reimbursement Audits and Appeals
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HealthLaw HotSpot - A Look at Alternative Reimbursement Models in Value-Based Care
The Important and Thriving Role of Private Medical Practices
Value-Based Care and Its Impact on Providers
The Year Ahead: Litigation Hot Spots at a Glance
Teleworking: Amazing or amazingly complex?
(Video) Reimbursement of College Tuition and Fees After COVID-19
Value-based health care: compliance infrastructure
K&L Gates Triage: 340B Eligibility - Hospital Covered Entities
Value-based health care: fraud & abuse laws
Value-based health care: issues for pharmaceutical companies
Condo Water Invasion: Potential Medical Liability?
When nonexempt employees use their personal vehicles to provide delivery services, how much must their employer reimburse them to ensure that the employees are paid at least the minimum wage required by the Fair Labor...more
A Hong Kong court decision holding an employer liable for various payments and benefits owed to a former employee highlights the importance of making prompt payment of all amounts due upon termination of employment....more
The California Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District recently issued its opinion regarding business-related expenses in Thai v. International Business Machines Corporation. The Court found that expenses incurred by...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The California Court of Appeal found an employer liable under Labor Code section 2802 for employee work-from-home operating expenses, despite Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2020 stay-at-home order, which precluded...more
On July 11, 2023, the California Court of Appeal in Thai v. IBM held that whether an employer is obligated to reimburse expenses incurred by an employee working from home turns on whether the expenses were a direct...more
Time for Compliance in an Altered Work Environment - As companies continue settling into their new working environments—remote, hybrid, or fully back in the office—there remain a number of challenges that have stemmed...more
On June 13, 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held in Johnson v. WinCo Foods Holdings, Inc, et al. that class members who were not yet employed by WinCo were not entitled to compensation for the time required to take a...more
A federal appeals court recently affirmed a summary judgment entered in favor of WinCo Foods in a class action alleging that WinCo should have reimbursed successful job applicants for the time and travel expenses they...more
Over the past several weeks, employees have filed a number of class action claims in California alleging that their employers failed to pay expenses associated with their home working arrangements, in violation of state law....more
Near the end of 2021, a flurry of decisions that significantly affect employers facing and settling Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) lawsuits were published. The first two decisions, Uribe v. Crown Building Maintenance...more
The issue of whether expense reimbursements should be included as “wages” when computing the regular rate for overtime has been around for many years. Sometimes, an employer will seek to “disguise” wages as expenses in order...more
On Monday, the Ninth Circuit vacated a judgment for Grubhub, Inc. and against a former food delivery driver, Raef Lawson, who claimed that he was misclassified as an independent contractor when he performed food delivery...more
The Hague Court of Appeal recently held that an employer could recover a leased company car from a sick employee without being obliged to reimburse the loss arising from the private use of the car....more
Organizations in employee-friendly New Jersey have long been faced with a choice between compliance with permissive state marijuana regulations or with stricter federal mandates. The Supreme Court of New Jersey, in Hager v....more
With well over 1,600 COVID-19-related employment lawsuits already having been filed nationwide and over 350 in California alone, employers need to keep abreast of ongoing issues that impact the physical and remote workplace....more
With COVID-19 giving rise to a whole host of new claims ranging from issues surrounding remote work to tuition reimbursement as well as new developments in the area of sexual orientation and gender identity, employers need a...more
Let me be the millionth person to say that we are living in unprecedented times. Well, unless you count the Spanish Flu, which few of us probably dealt with as that was more than a century ago....more
Imagine that after weeks of working remotely due to COVID-19, you return to your office only to discover a stack of papers on your desk in a folder titled “requests for reimbursement.” You peer through the contents and find...more
Today, in Frlekin v. Apple, Inc., the California Supreme Court held that time spent by non-exempt employees undergoing mandatory bag or other security checks is compensable work time under California law. The decision stands...more
Part 2: New Employment-Related Court Decisions Impacting California’s Public and Private Entities - California and federal courts handed down a number of labor and employment-related decisions last year, impacting...more
In a case of first impression, the New Jersey Appellate Division determined that employers in the state must reimburse employees for medical cannabis following a workplace accident, despite federal prohibitions against...more
As previously reported, the Tenth Circuit created a buzz when it found that cannabis companies need to pay overtime under the FLSA even though marijuana is illegal under Federal law....more
On November 26, 2019, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) might not apply to Uber drivers who are engaged in interstate commerce while driving passengers to or...more
On September 6, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California preliminarily approved a settlement in Harvey v. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC. The significance of the result is two-fold. First,...more
Krista Townley was a server at BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. As a server, Townley was required to wear black, slip-resistant close-toed shoes pursuant to company policy. Townley purchased a pair of canvas shoes that complied with...more