Publications

Home health agencies (“HHAs”) are struggling to deal with changes from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) on two fronts.  On July 10, 2017, CMS released a final rule delaying the effective date of the changes to the Conditions of Participation (“COPs”) for HHAs that was published on […]

On September 15, 2017, the Iowa Board of Medicine published final administrative regulations governing the supervision of physician assistants PAs in Iowa.  Although the new rules are effective September 20, 2017, enforcement of the rule is delayed until January 1, 2018 in order to allow time for education and implementation. […]

On September 7, 2017, Equifax announced that it had experienced a cybersecurity breach impacting approximately 143 million people.  It appears that the unauthorized access occurred mid-May through July 2017. If a credit report was run on you prior to, or during the breach, then your information was probably exposed by […]

In its recent decision in Matthew Landrum et al. v. City of Omaha Planning Board et al., 297 Neb. 165 (2017), the Nebraska Supreme Court held that an action in error is not the proper means to seek review of a special use permit or rezoning ordinances.  Because such permits and ordinances […]

The United States Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a Wisconsin regulation that prevented a landowner from selling an adjacent lot as a separate building site.  Murr et. al. v. Wisconsin et. al., No. 15–214 (June 23, 2017).  The relevant regulation prevents Wisconsin landowners from subdividing and selling an […]