On January 5, 2023, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law an Act amending New Jersey’s Uniform Construction Code Act (UCC) to facilitate expedited construction inspections, as explained in this week’s Client Alert by attorneys in the firm’s real estate practice.
In a case of first impression, the Superior Court of New Jersey in Atlantic Plastic & Hand Surgery, P.A. v. Ralling held that a parent who is the named insurance policyholder is not liable for unreimbursed medical expenses incurred by
As discussed in this prior blog post, beginning in 2018 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reduced reimbursement rates for Medicare prescription drugs to 340B hospitals by nearly thirty percent. The American Hospital Association (AHA) filed
As discussed in this week’s Client Alert by our partner Alan S. Pralgever, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy recently signed into law a bill (A-4768) that sets April 10, 2023, as the new effective date for long awaited amendments to
The Supreme Court of South Carolina has ruled that the state constitutional protection against “unreasonable invasions of privacy” includes a woman’s right to choose an abortion. In Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. State of Carolina, the Court found that
As reported this past week by GovInfoSecurity, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, signed into law in late December 2022, included a key provision to help ensure the cybersecurity of medical devices by their manufacturers. GovInfoSecurity interviewed Dr. Suzanne
On January 5, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an extremely broad Notice of Proposed Rulemaking which, if adopted in its current form, would prohibit nearly all private employers from entering into or enforcing non-compete agreements with their employees. In
The COVID-19 pandemic created a paradigm shift in the world of telehealth and telemedicine by presenting challenges and opportunities to expand the delivery methods used to access healthcare. With the continued advancement of the technology behind it, telemedicine offered opportunities
New Jersey enacted the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act (MAID) in 2019, becoming one of eleven jurisdictions including the District of Columbia to recognize a patient’s ability to obtain physician assistance for the purpose of obtaining
It all starts with the contract, but let’s face it … most consider provider-payer contracts obsolete on the day they are inked. A managed care contract is the quintessential tornado in a bottle, attempting to fix the terms and conditions