April 24, 2020
The Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet has published an
employer handbook to answer employers’ questions about unemployment insurance and
how it has been impacted by COVID-19 and the new federal programs enacted as part
of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act. Click here to ...
On April 28, 2020, the Supreme Court of Kentucky issued Amended Order 2020-29 extending certain filing deadlines for the Supreme Court of Kentucky and Kentucky Court of Appeals by thirty days as a result of COVID-19. The deadline extension applies only to specified notices, motions, and briefs that would have been due between May 1 ...
April 3, 2020
On March 30, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced several new blanket waivers and flexibilities issued under Section 1135 of the Social Security Act in response to the COVID-19 emergency (“Section 1135 Waivers”). In order to ensure maximum flexibility to deal with an influx of COVID-19 ...
April 17, 2020
The first $30 billion of the $100 billion in CARES Act Emergency Relief Fund payments was disbursed to providers who, in 2019, received Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) reimbursements. As a result of being limited to FFS providers, many rural hospitals and providers who bill another provider under Part A consolidated payment ...
April 17, 2020
The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) is temporarily waiving query fees (both one-time query and continuous query). The waiver is retroactive from March 1, 2020, through May 31, 2020. The NPDB will issue query credits to reimburse entities that conducted queries (one-time and continuous) between March 1 and the ...
April 10, 2020
On April 8th the Department of Health and Human Services announced that pharmacists can administer COVID-19 tests. The announcement is found here. This expansion of the testing workforce is meant to address the need for rapid virus testing and make testing sites more accessible, since large numbers of the population already live ...
April 3, 2020
Many people feel a certain level of invincibility to data breaches and online scammers, maybe because they are well-read and knowledgeable about what to look for and avoid, or maybe because they simply think they are smart enough to know a scam when they see it. While that may be true in the ordinary course, scammers have adapted to and ...
April 22, 2020
President Trump issued a proclamation suspending the entry of any individual seeking to
enter the United States as an immigrant who:
• Is outside the United States on the effective date of the proclamation;
• Does not have a valid immigrant visa as of April 23, 2020; and
• Does not have a valid official travel document as of April ...
April 24, 2020
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it won’t penalize providers for “good faith” telehealth use during the COVID-19 emergency even if that use violates the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Healthcare providers are well-advised to select and use audio-video platforms and ...
March 27, 2020
With the almost daily increase in the number of County Clerk’s Offices closed to the public in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as more state governors issue Executive Orders limiting or closing business operations, guidance is evolving regarding how to proceed with real estate and lending transactions and obtain title ...