On June 28, 2021, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) issued a new directive that establishes a change in its inspection and enforcement procedures to facilitate the uniform enforcement of OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) with respect to workplace exposures to COVID-19 in the healthcare industry. The directive is effective for no more than 12 months from June 21, 2021, unless cancelled or extended by OSHA. State Plans must adopt enforcement policies that are…

If asked, most companies would wholeheartedly agree that accessibility for all customers and potential customers is good for business. Barb Grandjean and Jackie Coffman discuss Digital Spaces as Places of Public Accommodation for ABA Law Practice Today: https://lnkd.in/eknUjNB   …

Success in False Claims Act Lawsuits In this third episode of the Husch Blackwell Hospice Team’s “Hospice and the False Claims Act” series, Meg Pekarske, Bryan Nowicki, Jody Rudman and Brian Flood discuss the process and path of a False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit. FCA cases are a test of endurance as much as they require expert marshalling of facts and law. The Hospice Team gives the insider’s view of an FCA lawsuit, including how…

Husch Blackwell’s Education team recently conducted a webinar that tackles complex Clery Act issues that directly affect academic medical centers, hospitals and healthcare systems, and student health facilities. Listen in while Husch Blackwell attorneys, Hayley Hansen and Ellen Armentrout discuss specific Clery Act compliance topics, such as: confidentiality concerns; guidance offered in the new Clery Appendix; and Campus Security Authority (CSA). To view the on-demand recording of this timely webinar, use our registration form.…

On July 1, 2021, the Office of Personnel Management (“OPM”), the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), the Department of Treasury (“Treasury”), the Employee Benefits Security Administration (“EBSA”), the Department of Labor (“DOL”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), and the Department of Health and Human Services (“CMS”) (collectively the “Departments”) jointly issued the Interim Rule – Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part 1 (hereinafter, the “Interim Rule” or the “Rule”). This Interim Rule is…

Join Meg Pekarske and our newest member of our Hospice & Palliative care team, Noreen Vergara, where they discuss different ways hospices can come together to succeed in the value-based care landscape. They explore a continuum of options from messenger-model networks to networks that are clinically and financially integrated all the way to common ownership through merger or acquisition. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, collaboration can be a fresh way to create operational efficiencies,…

After nearly half a year of silence, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finally provided direction on when providers need to submit Provider Relief Fund (“PRF”) compliance reports. In this episode, Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske and Andrew Brenton discuss this and other PRF developments, including new deadlines by which providers must use their PRF payments and guidance on how to return those portions of PRF payments that remain unused. Tune into our podcast…