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Recently, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) has announced several fines and citations for violations against health care providers. Violations have included failing to provide training on the proper use of a respirator and personal protective equipment, and the failure to report injury, illness or fatality. And this may be just the beginning. Health…Read More

As previously discussed here, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARP”), contains a number of benefits for American workers and their families that employers will need to understand. An immediate concern is a provision for subsidized COBRA continuation coverage for employees and family members who experience a loss of group health plan coverage due…Read More

President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the “ARP”) into law on March 11, 2021. Included in the massive $1.9 trillion relief package was an additional $8.5 billion for rural hospitals and providers. The $8.5 billion creates a new relief fund for certain eligible rural health care providers (“Rural Relief Fund”). This…Read More

While the COVID-19 public health emergency (“PHE”) has driven significant change throughout health care, some of the more expansive changes relate specifically to the provision of care through telehealth technology (“Virtual Care”). Given the nature and extent of the PHE flexibilities, use of telehealth has skyrocketed. Medicare beneficiaries used telehealth for 43.5% of their primary…Read More

As we discussed here, the EEOC recently updated its COVID-19 guidance (Section K, specifically) to include information on how employers can approach COVID-19 vaccine issues under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (“GINA”). In our previous blog article, we addressed the implications of a mandatory…Read More

The Consolidated Appropriations Act (“Appropriations Act”) that Congress passed in late December 2020 contained a number of provisions that will be of benefit to teaching hospitals. This article is Part 3 of our series providing insight into these CMS changes and more recent statutory changes. Part 1, which addresses resident moonlighting and redocumentation requirements, is…Read More

On Thursday, March 11, 2021, President Biden signed a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARP”), in an effort to speed up the United States’ recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing recession. Among other things, the ARP extends an additional period of…Read More