On January 14, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced updated compliance deadlines for the November 5, 2021 Interim Final Rule (IFR) requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for covered health care staff. Baird Holm previously reported on the Supreme Court’s decision to lift the injunction against CMS’s vaccine […]
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Many commentators called this one correctly. Today, the Supreme Court lifted the injunction that had blocked the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from enforcing the November 5, 2021 Interim Final Rule (IFR) requiring health care entities subject to the rule to ensure their workforce (including contractors) were either […]
Baird Holm Partner Amy Erlbacher-Anderson was featured in the Marketplace Morning Report “Foreign-born nurses may be less likely to walk away from their jobs.” During her interview with Meghan McCarty Carino, Amy discusses the challenges workers are facing getting immigrant visas and the massive backlog for interviews on applications that […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Interim Final Rule (IFR) requiring COVID-19 vaccination for covered healthcare staff has been met with challenge after challenge. These roadblocks to enforcement will persist under a new decision from the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. On December 13, 2021, the Eighth […]
