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NATIONAL Lawsuit sheds light on Amazon’s pharmacy strategy CMS’ first health informatics chief out after 4 months on the job Deals by UnitedHealth, other health giants draw antitrust scrutiny in D.C. Supreme Court to hear insurers’ bid for $12 billion in Obamacare money FDA must guard against bias in AI, focus on patient outcomes... READ MORE

Minnesota’s “Wage Theft Law” goes into effect on July 1, 2019, resulting in significant changes to the state’s labor and employment laws. The new legislation imposes requirements on employers in Minnesota to provide notices and maintain records, create criminal and civil penalties for wage theft and grant additional authority to the Minnesota government agencies... READ MORE

Senate Health Committee Releases Sweeping Health Cost Legislation On June 18, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (“HELP”) Committee released bipartisan legislation designed to address the cost of health care bipartisan health cost legislation after collecting extensive stakeholder feedback. The Committee will mark up this legislation next week on June 26. There are... READ MORE

This is another article in a series discussing the complete overhaul of Part 483 to Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations the Requirements for States and Long-Term Care Facilities (“Final Regulations”) by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”). To view other articles in this series, click here. Beginning on November 28,... READ MORE

NATIONAL HHS expands health reimbursement coverage 9 hospital, health system construction projects worth $300M or more May healthcare data breaches: More than 2 million patients affected Dual Payment Model for Long Term Care Hospitals Could Boost Hospice Use Uber Health will provide injured workers with transportation to medical appointments These Are The Top Children’s... READ MORE

Energy and Commerce Examines Surprise Medical Billing On June 12, the House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee held a legislative hearing on surprise medical bills as Congress continues tackling the issue on how best to resolve payment disputes between providers and health plans. There is broad agreement to pass legislation addressing surprise medical bills,... READ MORE

Most skilled nursing facilities and state survey agencies are not correctly reporting and investigating abuse and neglect incidents that occur against skilled nursing residents, according to the June 7, 2019, Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report titled Incidents of Potential Abuse and Neglect at Skilled Nursing... READ MORE

NATIONAL How CMS’ New Value-Based Bundled Payment Method Affects Healthcare Providers The Uber of prescription drugs: Web startups raise concerns about access to Rx medicine Cybersecurity lawsuit against Allscripts tossed by judge AMA’s president-elect is Texas allergist, immunologist Dr. Susan Bailey CMS plans to release list of 400 troubled nursing homes following Senate report... READ MORE

While much focus was given to the individual and corporate tax reductions provided in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“TCJA”), the TCJA also stirred up a great deal of interest among investors with the designation of qualified opportunity zones (“Opportunity Zones”). The Opportunity Zone additions to the Internal Revenue Code allow... READ MORE

On Monday, June 3, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (the “Court”) ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has the authority to regulate certain stem cell-based treatments offered by U.S. Stem Cell Clinic, LLC (the “Clinic”) and U.S. Stem Cell, Inc. After the Clinic failed to heed... READ MORE