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White House, May 14, 2021 "A Proclamation on Revoking Proclamation 9945 The suspension of entry imposed in Proclamation 9945 of October 4, 2019 (Suspension of Entry of Immigrants Who Will Financially Burden the United States Healthcare System...

Prof. Peter Margulies, Jan. 5, 2021 "In a decision on Dec. 31 in Doe #1 v. Trump , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld President Trump's Oct. 2019 proclamation barring entry of immigrants without "approved" health...

Peter Margulies, Lawfare, May 6, 2020 "In a ruling on May 4 in Doe v. Trump , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied the government's request for a stay of a nationwide preliminary injunction against an October 2019 presidential...

Doe v. Trump "In this case, we consider the government’s motion to stay the district court’s preliminary injunction enjoining a Presidential Proclamation restricting family-sponsored immigrants from entering the United States without...

Justice Action Center, Apr. 7, 2020 "On April 7, 2020, the federal district court in Portland, Oregon granted class certification in our lawsuit, Doe v. Trump , challenging President Trump’s October 4 proclamation requiring legal immigrants...

Budget & Taxes Brownback Makes Big Cuts to KS University System Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) announced plans for a 3 percent immediate cut to the state university system after tax collections came in well below projections last month. The...

Because Medicare and Medicaid pay health care providers promptly and without any inquiry into the probity of the claim health insurance fraud is a fairly easy crime to commit with little chance of being arrested or convicted. Perhaps that is the reason...

By Bradley J. Frigon Following several cases that challenged federal regulations, CMS published a memorandum to all Medicare Advantage Organizations and Prescription Drug Plan Sponsors regarding Medicare Secondary Payment Subrogation Rights for Part...

By Marcia L. Augsburger Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Omnibus Final Rule published January 25, 2013, 78 Fed.Reg. 5566, Covered Entities (CEs) with Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) that were entered on or...

By David Y. Bannard Not-for-profit health care providers that have borrowed on a tax-exempt basis within the last five years should be aware of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation (“MCDC”...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — (Mealey’s) U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Dec. 31 temporarily blocked the federal government from enforcing the birth control mandate contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) against...

By Benjamin Koplin , Selina Coleman and R. Jeffrey Layne Despite extending the dispute-and-resolution deadline to account for the days that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) pulled down the reporting system, the public Physician...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which even the president now calls Obamacare, is approaching a moment of truth, and it's not likely to be pretty. Starting on October 1, Americans without health insurance supposedly will be able to...

Last December, SNCJ reviewed several issues we believed would be hot in statehouses in 2013. At the halfway point of this year's sessions, some of those issues have cooled off a bit, while others have grown even hotter. GUN CONTROL: One of the...