April 10, 2020
On April 7th the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) stated in an announcement that $30 billion in grants, which is a portion of the $100 billion of funding provided under the CARES Act to support hospitals, will start to be distributed on Friday of this week. Where the government has the hospitals’ account information ...
April 24, 2020
Two weeks ago, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) distributed $30 billion out of the $100 billion fund for providers created under the CARES Act. On April 22, 2020, HHS announced that the remaining $70 billion will be allocated in the coming weeks as follows:
- $20 billion to providers based on net patient revenues from ...
April 10, 2020
On April 9th the HHS released guidance on how it is exercising discretion in applying privacy and security standards under HIPAA to CBTS during the COVID-19 nationwide public health emergency. OCR encourages health care providers to implement reasonable safeguards to protect the privacy and security of individuals’ PHI, such ...
March 23, 2020
Private equity has been on a debt binge for several years. This article looks at the impact of the 2017 tax law’s interest expense deduction limitation and the effect on deal-making and suggests businesses should engage in financial modeling with an eye toward 2022 when the deduction will shrink even further for most taxpayers ...
March 26, 2020
COVID-19 has drastically impacted people’s lives and livelihoods. It has also had drastic impacts on many legal sectors, but its impact on intellectual property has been much less severe with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and Copyright Office moving forward via remote operations. Click here to ...
April 24, 2020
On April 23, 2020, Kentucky’s Public Health Commissioner outlined the state’s plan for Phase I of a gradual reopening of non-urgent health care services that were suspended by virtue of the Governor’s March 23 executive order. Officials emphasize that the reopening of health care services must be gradual and must not be a ...
April 17, 2020
The Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services (KBEMS) has recently issued Emergency Orders waiving and modifying certain regulations for the period of the State of Emergency declared by Governor Beshear on March 6, 2020. The Emergency Orders (issued April 9 and April 14) and the modified regulations may be found here. Of ...
April 10, 2020
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) has continued to update guidance to Kentucky health care providers:
- CHFS issued a new memo dated April 9, 2020 saying that all health care providers (not just hospitals, as provided for in its April 6 memo) have a “blanket waiver” and are not required to obtain additional approval ...
April 17, 2020
The Kentucky Department of Public Health (DPH) issued a Request PPE Fact Sheet to provide guidance to any agency, business or healthcare facility that is requesting Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) through the State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC). The guidance applies to: N95 Masks, Isolation Gowns, Face Shields ...
April 10, 2020
On April 6th the Kentucky Office of Inspector General (OIG), in collaboration with the Department for Public Health, issued a directive stating that general acute care hospitals, critical access hospitals, and psychiatric hospitals are not required to obtain additional approval from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services ...