June 11, 2021 | Blogs

On June 10, 2021, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (O...

June 9, 2021 | Blogs

A recent case from the Indiana Court of Appeals highlights the parameters of Indiana’s Medical Mal...

May 19, 2021 | Blogs

On April 16, 2021, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) issued two notices in reaction to the Janua...

April 22, 2021 | Blogs

On April 19, 2021, the State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy approved increasing the number of medical mar...

March 16, 2021 | Blogs

As the health care industry continues to integrate, providers and health care professionals are chal...

March 10, 2021 | Blogs

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “NPR...

March 1, 2021 | Blogs

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule applies only to...

February 19, 2021 | Blogs

In the first draft of the State of Ohio budget, Governor Mike DeWine has proposed that hospitals bec...

February 12, 2021 | Blogs

On November 20, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of H...

January 28, 2021 | Blogs

Update: As of April 16, 2021, it appears the FDA may be reversing course with respect to its prior e...

November 16, 2020 | Blogs

On October 29, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, and the D...

October 7, 2020 | Blogs

In its 2021 proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

July 28, 2020 | Blogs

The Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program (the “OMMCP”) is scheduled to accept new testing labo...

July 14, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team

The IRS has recently issued FAQ guidance regarding the tax implications for providers who are the ...

May 19, 2020 | Blogs

In response to the large number of adverse outcomes at nursing homes across the U.S., the Center for...

May 18, 2020 | Blogs

The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently released a notification of enforcem...

May 11, 2020 | Blogs

The Ohio State Board of Pharmacy (the “Board”) has filed amended rule changes to the Ohio Medica...

May 6, 2020 | Blogs

West Virginia continues to gradually and safely reopen health care services. Governor Jim Justice fi...

May 4, 2020 | Blogs

Newly published federal rules will now give more power to consumers in controlling their personal he...

May 1, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team

As most health care providers (and many of their patients) are aware, the CARES Act allocated $100 b...

April 30, 2020 | Blogs

The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services issued an order April 27, 2020, allowing for cer...

April 24, 2020 | Blogs

This will come as welcomed news to Ohio health care providers struggling financially during the COVI...

April 23, 2020 | Blogs

West Virginia has a plan to start to reopen for business. Governor Jim Justice laid out this plan th...

April 22, 2020 | Blogs

On April 21, 2020, the United States Secretary (the “Secretary”) for Health and Human Services (...

April 20, 2020 | Blogs

Rural health clinics (RHCs) and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) are among the health care...

April 17, 2020 | Blogs

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued an Interim Final Rule (“Rule”) containing,...

April 16, 2020 | Blogs

While innovation in communication (and Medicare reimbursement) has been evolving, the COVID-19 crisi...

April 16, 2020 | Blogs

In response to COVID-19, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a document sett...

April 14, 2020 | Blogs

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the Centers for Medicare and Medic...

April 14, 2020 | Blogs

On April 11, 2020, the federal government issued guidance to ensure that Americans with private heal...

April 10, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team

The CARES Act signed into law on March 27, 2020, provides $100 billion dollars in “Provider Relief...

April 9, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team

Recently, our Coronavirus Response Team discussed the potential for private nonprofit organizations ...

April 7, 2020 | Blogs

On March 31, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released an Interim Fi...

April 2, 2020 | Blogs

As summarized in a prior bulletin, on March 23, 2020, the President of the United States issued Exec...

April 1, 2020 | Blogs

Amid responses to the COVID-19 emergency, telehealth has been a frequent area of development. The Se...

March 31, 2020 | Blogs

The COVID-19 outbreak has led to several changes with respect to the delivery of mental health and s...

March 30, 2020 | Blogs

As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rises, first responders now must operate in a world with a...

March 27, 2020 | Blogs

On March 23, 2020, the President of the United States issued Executive Order 13910 entitled “Preve...

March 26, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team

On March 24, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) hosted a call for Prog...

March 18, 2020 | Coronavirus Response Team

As businesses across all industries respond to the national emergency, the Center for Medicare and M...

March 2, 2020 | Blogs

Private equity’s expansion into healthcare has proliferated in the past decade, with over 181 priv...

February 25, 2020 | Blogs

Woody Allen famously said that 80% of success is showing up. However, in some settings, including ho...

January 30, 2020 | Blogs

The 340B Drug Pricing Program is a federal government program created in 1992 that requires drug man...

January 29, 2020 | Blogs

Direct primary care practices have received considerable attention lately, so it seems timely to dis...

December 6, 2019 | Blogs

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Bureau for Public Health (“BPH”) kick...

November 25, 2019 | Blogs

Ohio’s medical marijuana program is almost one year old. Patient numbers have increased since Janu...

October 11, 2019 | Blogs

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a long-awaited proposed rule that ...

October 10, 2019 | Blogs

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended to Congress in its June 2019 report th...

October 10, 2019 | Blogs

Background Peppered with references to ride sharing, interoperability, cybersecurity, and electronic...

September 11, 2019 | Blogs

In a first of its kind enforcement action, the Office of Civil Rights at the Department of Health an...

August 28, 2019 | Blogs

Hospitals may wish to enter into joint ventures with physicians for a variety of reasons.  Commonly...

July 31, 2019 | Blogs

It’s official — with Governor DeWine’s signature, Senate Bill 57 legalized hemp-derived produc...

July 22, 2019 | Blogs

According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) final rule, effective September ...

July 17, 2019 | Blogs

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for ...

July 8, 2019 | Blogs

Marijuana products liability claims are inevitable. As the marijuana industry increases in size, and...

July 2, 2019 | Blogs

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued a welcome decision that affords employers ...

May 10, 2019 | Blogs

Hold the presses – CMS’s long-awaited guidance on shared space arrangements between hospitals an...

May 1, 2019 | Blogs

As we rapidly approach the fifth month of the year, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (C...

April 26, 2019 | Blogs

The 2018 Farm Bill’s legalization of hemp set the stage for a resurgence in hemp production and ...

April 23, 2019 | Blogs

State laws vary considerably in terms of the professional obligations they place on physicians obtai...

April 18, 2019 | Blogs

As a result of huge costs and pricing pressures, many drug development players are now participating...

March 29, 2019 | Blogs

Hemp is not marijuana – let us start there. This is a critical distinction the Ohio legislature ha...

February 19, 2019 | Blogs

This month, the Ohio Department of Medicaid finalized its regulation (OAC 5160-1-32.1) which creates...

December 20, 2018 | Blogs

Labs, clinical treatment facilities, and recovery homes BEWARE! If you are currently using marketers...

October 29, 2018 | Blogs

On October 3, 2018, Congress approved the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (H.R. 6). This bi...

August 17, 2018 | Blogs

While the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General is looking ba...

July 31, 2018 | Blogs

Co-Author: Joseph Brammer The Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) audit dissected telehe...

July 19, 2018 | Blogs

Co-Author: Maxwell Williams Cash only? Informed consent forms? Waivers of liability? The original...

July 13, 2018 | Blogs

Co-author: Ashley Ramm In response to President Trump’s American Patients First Blueprint, ...

June 26, 2018 | Blogs

Co-author: Nathan Truitt Ironically named the “Choice Demonstration,” the Centers for...

June 8, 2018 | Blogs

Depending on the state in which a nurse practitioner or physician assistant practices, he or she c...

May 9, 2018 | Blogs

This article will go into detail on surety bond requirements that may be imposed on providers of d...

May 2, 2018 | Blogs

Ohio State Auditor David Yost has noted that Ohio has millions of dollars of unpaid obligations ow...

April 25, 2018 | Blogs

This is the third article in a three-part series designed to inform physicians and other health ca...

April 9, 2018 | Blogs

“Grandma’s tremors appear to have gotten worse lately. She mentioned she wants to try ...

April 5, 2018 | Blogs

On March 27, 2018, Governor James C. Justice signed SB 273, which among other dramatic actions lim...

March 20, 2018 | Blogs

Ohio doctors can now apply to become certified to recommend medical marijuana for treatment. The O...

March 14, 2018 | Blogs

This is the second article in a three-part series designed to inform physicians and other health c...

February 23, 2018 | Blogs

This is the first article in a three-part series designed to inform physicians and other health ca...

February 20, 2018 | Blogs

The response at the federal and local level is rapidly evolving to meet the overwhelming need to s...

February 7, 2018 | Blogs

The West Virginia Medical Cannabis Advisory Board (“Advisory Board”) met on February 6...

February 1, 2018 | Blogs

"Direct Primary Care,” or DPC, is a patient care delivery model gaining attention and some d...

January 31, 2018 | Blogs

Physicians interested in recommending medical marijuana are already completing the two hours of co...

January 30, 2018 | Blogs

Down goes a jurisdictional barrier to telehealth: Nurses interested in expanding their practice ca...

January 26, 2018 | Blogs

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) announced January 10 a new, voluntary bundl...

January 18, 2018 | Blogs

CVS Health announced plans to buy Aetna last month in a $69 billion deal that the New Yo...

January 12, 2018 | Blogs

On the day President Trump was inaugurated, he nominated Seema Verma, a healthcare consultant from...

January 12, 2018 | Blogs

To Kentucky, the grass must have literally been greener on the other side. After Kentucky law...

January 5, 2018 | Blogs

In November of 2017, United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Department of...

January 4, 2018 | Blogs

The individual mandate (i.e., that every American must have health insurance coverage or pay a pen...

December 21, 2017 | Blogs

On December 14, 2017, the West Virginia Medical Cannabis Advisory Board announced: (1) the results...

December 15, 2017 | Blogs

The Supreme Court of Kentucky held in an opinion issued August 24, 2017 that Kentucky’s regu...

December 14, 2017 | Blogs

The fallout from the seemingly endless W-2 phishing scams continues to be felt.

December 4, 2017 | Blogs

It’s already a stressful time of year, but for those vying for a license to convert marijuan...

December 1, 2017 | Blogs

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released a Final Rule that will cut ...

November 30, 2017 | Blogs

Under the Obama administration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) placed a low priority on pursuing ...

November 29, 2017 | Blogs

On November 13, 2017, the Kentucky Department of Medicaid Services (DMS) filed amendments to nearl...

November 29, 2017 | Blogs

OSHA recently announced that employers now have until December 15, 2017 to electronically submit t...

November 13, 2017 | Blogs

Although it is still very early in the tax reform process, provisions in the House tax bill propos...

November 7, 2017 | Blogs

November 1 was the “last chance” for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (C...

November 7, 2017 | Blogs

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released two final rules that wi...

October 31, 2017 | Blogs

Ohio physicians interested in treating patients with medical marijuana need to understand their ob...

October 30, 2017 | Blogs

On October 26, 2017, President Trump declared the Opioid Crisis a “public health emergency,&...

October 18, 2017 | Blogs

October 12, 2017, was an eventful day for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) because of two executive o...

October 17, 2017 | Blogs

Short Term Limited Duration Insurance On October 12, 2017, President Donald Trump issued an Execu...

October 13, 2017 | Blogs

In 2015, West Virginia experienced the highest rate of deaths due to opioid overdoses in the Unite...

October 13, 2017 | Blogs

As we all know, health care providers such as physicians, nurse practitioners, and registered nurs...

September 20, 2017 | Blogs

“Tort reform” has been a buzzword in the news and legal communities for some time. Wha...

September 20, 2017 | Blogs

For most physicians with significant Medicare business, October 2 marks the beginning of the last ...

September 8, 2017 | Blogs

In West Virginia, medical marijuana will soon be a treatment option for physicians and patients, a...

August 16, 2017 | Blogs

Ohio’s medical marijuana program is set to begin just a little over a year from now. The pro...

August 2, 2017 | Blogs

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health & Human S...

July 12, 2017 | Blogs

West Virginia is the 29th state to authorize medical marijuana use.

July 11, 2017 | Blogs

Only 13! That is the percentage of applicants who will ultimately receive an Ohio medical marijuan...

June 26, 2017 | Blogs

Kentucky providers with prescriptive authority take note: beginning June 29, 2017, new laws (HB 33...

June 12, 2017 | Blogs

In many states, an investigation into a healthcare provider’s license by the Department of H...

June 11, 2017 | Blogs

The National Practitioner Data Bank, or NPDB, is a repository of information created by the f...

March 20, 2017 | Blogs

President Trump said he was “100 percent” in favor of medical marijuana during his cam...

January 23, 2017 | Blogs

Ohio’s medical marijuana regulations are budding. Ohio recently released proposed rules for ...

December 20, 2016 | Blogs

On December 15, 2016, the Ohio Board of Pharmacy posted its proposed rules governing the operation...

October 3, 2016 | Blogs

“Let’s get together and feel alright” sang the Ohio legislature to those sufferi...

March 12, 2015 | Blogs

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