By: Matthew L. Bunnell and R. Joseph Stennis, Jr.
The General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”), Jennifer A. Abruzzo, issued a memorandum, GC 21-08, this past Wednesday describing her intent to treat college Players at Academic Institutions[1] as employees for purposes of the National Labor Relations Act ...
On September 21, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new feature on Medicare.gov that makes vaccination data available in a user-friendly format so the public can make informed decisions when choosing a nursing home for themselves or a loved one. The data will continue to be used by CMS and the Centers for Disease ...
On September 17, 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced criminal charges against 42 medical professionals and nearly 100 other people for alleged health-care fraud amounting to about $1.4 billion in suspected losses. The charges include fraud involving the use of telemedicine services, which accounts for approximately $1.1 billion ...
On September 23, 2021, Governor Beshear announced the deployment of 505 Kentucky National Guard members to 29 hospitals throughout Kentucky, which expands the Guard’s presence by 94 members and to four more hospitals. The expansion comes just as 64 of 96 Kentucky hospitals are reporting critical staffing shortages, with only 130 adult ICU ...
On September 20, 2021 Governor Beshear announced that Kentucky would receive only 4,690 monoclonal antibodies for the week due to the national shortage. This resulted in the antibodies being allocated to 79 sites across Kentucky based on backorder requests, current inventory and prior week utilization. On Thursday, September 23, Governor ...
On September 10, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced $25.5 billion of new funding will be available to assist health care providers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. $8.5 billion, funded through the American Rescue Plan, will go to those providers who serve rural Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program ...
In recognition of the challenging time providers are facing due to the Delta variant and recent natural disasters, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a 60-day grace period following the upcoming September 30th deadline of the first Provider Relief Fund Report in order to help those providers unable to make the ...
On September 13, 2021, HHS announced a change in how Monoclonal Antibody Therapeutics will be distributed to health care providers due to supply shortages and an increase in demand nationwide. Starting Monday, September 13th, providers are no longer able to place direct orders for the antibody drugs and instead are to go through their state ...
By: Mitzi Wyrick
In an effort to get more Americans vaccinated, President Biden announced a series of new rules for employers that will cover approximately 100 million workers across the country. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is expected to issue a new Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) covering employers with 100 ...
On September 9, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it will issue new emergency regulations requiring staff at Medicare and Medicaid participating hospitals, dialysis facilities, ambulatory surgical settings, and home health agencies, among other health care facilities and providers, to be vaccinated ...