By: Emily H. Lineweaver
According to a Bloomberg Law report, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) plans to reopen the Provider Relief Payment Fund (PRF) Phase One reporting period, giving providers that received over $10,000 in PRF payments during Phase One another chance at reporting use of those funds before owing it all back.
By: Marianna J. Michael
On March 29, 2022, Governor Beshear signed HB 506, which creates new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to underscore the valuable service to commerce that professional employer organizations, staffing companies, and staff leasing companies (collectively, “PEOs”) provide. As a result, the Act was created to properly ...
The last two years brought changes that no one could have ever anticipated, and it is safe to say that life as we know it was forever changed by COVID-19. From an employment perspective, many employees embraced the ability to trade in uncomfortable high heels, mind-numbing commutes, and bad office coffee for sweatpants, more opportunity for ...
By: Alexa J. Elder
With COVID-19 restrictions decreasing and summer right around the corner, many employers are struggling to find workers to keep up with increasing demands. Because many young people seek employment during the summer months while they are out of school, it may be tempting for businesses to take advantage of this readily ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
According to an ABC report, free COVID-19 testing options for uninsured Americans are dwindling, with free vaccines likely at risk next, due to a lack of sufficient funding that is forcing some companies “to either absorb the cost of uninsured customers – or begin charging them.”
Quest Diagnostics told ABC News ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
As reported by Bloomberg Law, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is clawing back $100 million in funds from health care providers who did not comply with the reporting requirements attached to the Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments they received to assist them in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic. According ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
On March 29, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized a second booster dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for two select groups of individuals: (i) those 50 years of age and older; and (ii) those 12 years of age and older who are immunocompromised, which is defined as “people ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
On Tuesday, March 22, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that more than $413 million in Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments had been distributed to over 3,600 providers across the country. As part of the fourth round of PRF Phase 4 payments, these payments will “reimburse smaller providers for ...
By: Emily H. Lineweaver
On Monday, March 21, 2022, the Kentucky Legislature voted to override Governor Andy Beshear’s Veto of Senate Joint Resolution 150 (the “Resolution”), effectively ending the state declaration of emergency relating to COVID-19 issued by Governor Beshear over two years ago. The state of emergency was set to end on ...
By: Julie Laemmle Watts
The Occupational Safety and Health Organization (“OSHA”) has partially reopened the comment period for its rule on Occupational Exposure to COVID-19 in Healthcare Settings, the permanent healthcare COVID-19 standard, which was published in the Federal Register on March 23, 2022. Comments are due by April 22, 2022 ...