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Biden Signs Medicare Drug Pricing Changes into Law Last Tuesday President Biden signed the $700 billion climate change and health care bill passed by congressional Democrats along party lines over the preceding week. In addition to providing $375 billion...

Earlier this month, the federal government deemed monkeypox a national public health emergency, and it continues to make efforts to stretch its vaccine supply to combat the virus. Meanwhile, daily cases of COVID-19 remain above 100,000. In June, the Centers...

Rely on Practical Guidance for the current legal status of abortion in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , 2022 U.S. LEXIS 3057 (June...

Hospitals Struggling Financially This Year in WA, Nationwide Washington’s acute care hospitals, which provide inpatient and outpatient care in addition to nursing services, posted a 13 percent, or $929 million, aggregate net loss in the first...

Access comprehensive Practical Guidance content addressing issues arising from the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , 2022 U.S. LEXIS 3057 (June 24, 2022). This resource kit collects materials—including...

Gain an understanding of the physician licensing requirements in each of the 50 states via this helpful Practical Guidance – Healthcare state law survey. Access each state’s codified laws regarding graduate education, examination, and fee...

CA to Start Manufacturing Insulin In an effort to make insulin more affordable, California plans to start making its own. The state budget signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) last month allocates $50 million for the development of low-cost insulin products...

Help your clients prepare for their future medical care via advance care planning. Access templates for advance directives (also known as healthcare proxies, medical powers of attorney, or living wills) from each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia...

Rely on the Practical Guidance Healthcare practice area for a comprehensive checklist addressing claims processing issues. Educate yourself on the relevant laws, regulations, and administrative rules governing the process; discover relevant claims processing...

Fight Looming over Abortion Pills A flurry of state legislation aimed at restricting or banning medication abortion was introduced this year. Nineteen states already ban the prescription of abortion pills via telemedicine, and the Supreme Court’s...

Healthcare organizations focus on patient care, safety, and satisfaction. Streamline your physician onboarding experience, and get them to their units and floors faster, by using Practical Guidance’s customizable physician employment agreement template...

Healthcare organizations are particularly attractive targets of ransomware attacks. Understand why they are targeted, the types of ransomware attacks they face, and how to use data privacy rules like HIPAA to mitigate or prevent them. READ NOW »...

CA Lawmakers Budget Bonus for Health Care Worker The massive $300 million budget approved by California lawmakers last week has generally been acknowledged as a placeholder that technically meets the June 15 th constitutional deadline for getting a...

The Justice Department recovered more than $5 billion from healthcare fraud and abuse in fiscal year 2021. Rely on the newly launched Practical Guidance Healthcare practice area to build, monitor, and update your clients’ healthcare compliance programs...

Resident Physicians Unionizing in CA, Other States Resident physicians pushed to the brink during the coronavirus pandemic along with nurses and other healthcare workers, have been unionizing in California and other states to demand better wages, benefits...

By Shalyn Smith McKitt | Balch & Bingham LLP Healthcare Workforce Issues We thought 2020 was unprecedented, but healthcare employers were faced with new challenges in employment law as the world adapted to COVID-19 in 2021. And 2022 won’t...

Tide Turns for Traveling Nurses During the pandemic traveling nurses earned double, even triple what staff nurses did. But with state and federal coronavirus relief now drying up, travel nurse contracts are disappearing, and hospitals across the nation...

Medical Mall Makeovers on Rise The decline of the American shopping mall over the past decade or so has been a boon for big-city healthcare systems. Healthcare providers now occupy at least some part of 32 enclosed malls across the country, according...

Healthcare Access for Transgender Patients Various bills in state legislatures across the United States are seeking to ban or limit gender-affirming healthcare options for transgender children and teenagers, with new laws carrying the threat of imprisonment...

EEOC LEAVES WORKPLACE WELLNESS PROGRAMS IN LIMBO EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2019, REGULATIONS ISSUED by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) concerning incentive-based workplace wellness programs are rescinded, leaving employers without guidance...

COVID-19 Vaccine Law As the COVID-19 pandemic raged through 2021 and into 2022 it brought with it enormous legal challenges for employers and healthcare providers, increasing political dispute over of vaccines and mask mandates, serious worker shortages...

States Mandating Healthcare Facility Visitor Access At least nine states – most recently Florida, on April 6 – have passed laws allowing visitors to healthcare facilities even during a pandemic. Some of the laws, including those passed last...

Expanded Role for Pharmacists in Many States Even before the coronavirus pandemic, states were expanding pharmacists’ role in providing healthcare. Over a dozen states allow pharmacists to test and treat people for the flu, strep throat, urinary...

MO Weighs Fix for Physician Shortage A bill introduced this year in the Missouri House ( HB 2296 ) would allow assistant physicians - medical school graduates who haven’t completed their residency - to become fully licensed as doctors after practicing...

States, Purdue Pharma Agree to New Opioid Settlement The attorneys general for all 50 states have reached a new settlement with Purdue Pharma over its role in the opioid crisis. An earlier settlement had been appealed by eight states: California, Connecticut...