(NOTE: This article includes updates as of Tuesday, August 4, 2020.)
by Kathie McDonald-McClure, Partner
On January 27, 2020, the White House administration declared a public health emergency (PHE) due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). On March 6, 2020, Governor Beshear declared a state of emergency, making it only the fifth U.S. state to ...
The new guidance provides plain-language FAQs addressing critical issues under all three laws. Specifically, the FAQs address questions about telework, telemedicine, and the new paid sick leave and expanded family and medical leave law. The guidance reiterates common knowledge like “employees must be compensated for all hours worked” ...
Governor DeWine has signed into law some important changes to the Ohio workers’ compensation system. The changes, codified in H.B. 81, will go into effect on September 14, 2020. Here are the highlights:
Statute of Limitations – An application for an additional award for a violation of a specific safety requirement (VSSR) must now be filed ...
On July 9, 2020, Gov. Andy Beshear announced $36,200,000 in assistance for Kentucky’s local public health departments from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. These funds will allow the health departments to continue providing essential, front-line public health services in the battle against COVID-19 ...
On July 10, 2020, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) issued guidance to health care facilities clarifying that the lab result is the source document for billing start/stop dates. Billing starts when the positive test result is received and continues until the COVID-19 resident is released from isolation (i.e ...
On July 10, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that approximately $3 billion of Provider Relief Funds will go to hospitals serving vulnerable populations on thin margins. Many of these hospitals may have missed out on earlier fund distributions due to their low Medicare patient populations. An additional $1 ...
On Friday, July 17, 2020, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb issued Executive Order 20-36 announcing that the state would stay in Stage 4.5 of the “Back-On-Track Indiana” reopening plan. Stage 5 had been scheduled to begin on July 4, 2020 but was replaced by Stage 4.5, which began on July 3, 2020, due to modest evidence of a resurgence of COVID-19 ...
On July 14, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service extended the deadline for hospitals to conduct a community health needs assessment (CHNA). Healthcare organizations that claim non-profit status are required to complete a CHNA every three years, but the COVID-19 emergency has significantly interfered with hospitals’ ability to timely and ...
On Wednesday, July 15, 2020, Attorney General Daniel Cameron filed a motion in the Boone County Kentucky Circuit Court seeking to invalidate all executive orders issued to date by Governor Andy Beshear directed at containing the spread of COVID-19, a highly contagious disease that prompted the declaration of a national public health emergency ...
Recent surges in COVID-19 cases are straining health care providers’ already low supply of personal protective equipment (PPE). Despite efforts to increase production and distribution of PPE since the COVID-19 public health emergency began, as well as efforts such as decontaminating N95 masks to extend the useful life of PPE, shortages of ...
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