Publications

The worldwide spread of coronavirus prompted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) to issue a reminder to all Medicare providers and suppliers of their responsibilities to consider “emerging infectious diseases” under their emergency preparedness plans. In September 2016, CMS released final emergency preparedness regulations that require nearly all […]

In October of 2018, President Trump signed into law the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act (“SUPPORT Act”), which included a controversial section entitled the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018 (“EKRA”).  EKRA is targeted at making illegal the prevalent practice of […]

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has a statutory right under the Hart Scott Rodino Act (“HSR”) to review acquisitions and mergers over certain financial thresholds. However, many “standard transactions” do not satisfy the financial thresholds and thus no advance notification to the FTC of the transaction is required. While determining […]

We hope President Trump was correct when he stated last evening during his press conference that a Coronavirus pandemic is “not imminent.”  But after listening to officials from the Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) and reading in-between the President’s lines, it certainly sounds as though a Coronavirus pandemic in the […]

The H-1B cap filings registration process opens March 1st and, if you are considering sponsoring an individual for initial H-1B visa status for employment starting October 1, 2020 you should be preparing for the registration process now, as registration for the 2020-2021 lottery closes at noon EST March 20th.  Under the […]