Publications

On March 19, 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a “flexibility policy” that allowed some employers to remotely inspect and retain copies of documents for the Form I-9 process on a temporary basis as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.  […]

Health care employers across the United States that have not yet mandated the COVID-19 vaccine for their employees are currently considering it.  Undoubtedly, whether to mandate vaccinations is now one of the most pressing employment law issues facing the health care industry. Some health care employers have the “luxury” of […]

These days, both nurse practitioners and physician assistants practice regularly in hospital emergency departments.  In many critical access hospitals they cover primary call for the ED, with a supervising physician taking secondary call.  With increased reliance upon contracted telemedicine to cover the ED in a back-up fashion, questions have arisen […]

In the proposed 2022 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (“OPPS”) rule released on July 19th, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) proposed increasing penalties for hospitals not in compliance with the price transparency requirements that took effect for hospitals on January 1, 2021.  A portion of the price transparency […]

On July 21, 2021, U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.) and a group of bipartisan co-sponsors introduced the Cyber Incident Notification Act of 2021, which would establish a new set of breach disclosure requirements and a new reporting system with classified capabilities to support notification of cybersecurity incidents to the Cybersecurity and […]