U.S. manufacturers face a multitude of cybersecurity challenges that threaten their operations, reduce productivity, and jeopardize their intellectual property and data. For the past two years, the manufacturing sector has been the most targeted industry for ransomware attacks,1 with manufacturers spending
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Doubling Down in the Second City: Chicago Adopts Expanded Paid Leave Benefits for All Employees
Over the objections of the business community, Chicago’s City Council last week adopted one of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s signature policy goals of his young mayorship, doubling paid leave benefits for nearly all employees working in Chicago. The city’s new Paid…
General Assembly Tells Illinois Employers to “Show Me the Money!”
On August 11, 2023, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed HB 3129, a new pay transparency bill, into law. This bill is one of several other recent amendments to the Illinois Equal Pay Act, an Illinois law that, among other…
CMS Expands Access to Behavioral Health Services; Physician Fee Schedule Expands Billing Providers and Flexibilities
On November 2, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its 2024 Physician Fee Schedule final rule (Final Rule) for calendar year 2024 that will, in part, implement some of the most important changes to improve access…
New Circuit Decisions Highlight When Individualized Damages Issues May Preclude Class Certification
Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3), a district court may certify a damages class if “the court finds that the questions of law or fact common to class members predominate over any questions affecting only individual members, and that…
IP 101 for Emerging Healthy F&B Companies
Intellectual property protection is essential for emerging companies in the healthy food and beverage (“F&B”) space to attract investors and stand out from competitors. To gain a competitive edge, companies should understand and be intentional about building their intellectual property…
Top 5 Rules for Medicare 2024 Remote Patient Monitoring and Remote Therapeutic Monitoring: What Companies Need to Know
On November 2, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized new policies related to remote physiologic monitoring (RPM) and remote therapeutic monitoring (RTM) services reimbursed under the Medicare program.
The guidance published in the 2024 Physician Fee…
Massachusetts: Proceed With Caution – New Vaccination Criteria for Hospitals and Other Licensed Health Facilities
Following public hearings and at least 78 public comments, at the end of October, hospitals and other facilities licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) will have new flexibility to require both flu and COVID-19 vaccinations for personnel,…
New Biden EO on AI Oversight, Development, and Use: Implications for the Health Care Industry
On Monday, October 30, President Biden signed an executive order (EO) aimed at overhauling the governance and oversight of artificial intelligence (AI) and technological infrastructure, including setting standards for AI used in the health care industry. The order seeks to…
HHS OIG: New “General Compliance Program Guidance” Provides Voluntary Steps Towards Increased Effectiveness
In connection with the November 2023 Health Care Compliance Association’s (HCCA) Healthcare Enforcement Compliance Conference, and with acknowledgment by the Chief Counsel to the Inspector General, Rob DeConti, of the long partnership between the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and…