Health Care Law

On July 1, 2020, a slew of new employment laws went into effect in Virginia. While these statutes impact all Virginia employers, a trio of statutes about worker misclassification have particular significance among health care practices.

On April 22, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finally released a press release detailing how it would distribute the $100 billion in appropriations allocated under the CARES Act to healthcare providers.

Recently, CMS issued a series of updated guidance documents based on CDC guidelines to address a variety of issues.

On Friday, April 10, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began the immediate delivery of $30 billion in relief funding to providers who provided Medicare fee-for-service services in 2019.

Beginning on Friday, April 10, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began the immediate delivery of the initial $30 billion in relief funding to certain Medicare providers that are supporting the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an expansion of its accelerated and advance payment program for certain Medicare participating providers and suppliers to ensure they have the financial resources they need during the COVID-19 crisis.

As you may have heard, the U.S. Senate has passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), designed to respond to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 outbreak.

Our firm is committed to monitoring Virginia’s response to the continued spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and how our healthcare clients will be affected.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is ramping up enforcement when it comes to the security of protected health information (PHI) on portable devices, including laptops, cellphones, tablets, thumb drives, etc

As we all know, physicians bear the responsibility of protecting patients from threats that can stem from the storage and use of patients protected health information.