Publications

In this episode of Baird Holm Banter, Jon Blumenthal talks with Ron Jensen about “Estate Planning 101” — wills, trusts, and powers-of-attorney. Listen here.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) recently changed its guidance on when those with, or exposed to, the COVID-19 virus can leave quarantine.  For employers, this might result in a change of policy on when employees can return to the workplace. Previous guidance disallowed individuals with COVID-19 symptoms […]

The COVID-19 vaccine will begin to become available to Americans in just a few weeks.  It will initially be available only to frontline healthcare workers and people with increased risk for severe illness or death from COVID-19.  Nevertheless, employers should now be considering whether they will require their employees to […]

The much anticipated regulatory updates to the Physician Self-Referral Law (or “Stark”) and the Anti-Kickback Statute were published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, December 2, 2020. These final rules come about 14 months after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and its sub-agencies proposed sweeping updates […]

The Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) issued its first Special Fraud Alert since 2014, on November 16, 2020. Recognizing that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused cancellation of speaker programing on products sold by pharmaceutical and medical device companies (“vendor companies”), OIG questions the […]