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Hall Render is pleased to announce attorney Jake Kolisek has joined the firm’s Indianapolis office. Jake focuses his practice in the areas of labor and employment consulting and litigation. He counsels clients on employment-related issues, such as discipline and discharge matters, worker classification issues, wage and hour disputes, ADA and FMLA discrimination, workplace harassment... READ MORE

Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (“Court of Appeals”) released an opinion that confirmed a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) assessment of an immediate jeopardy citation and an $83,800 civil money penalty against a nursing home for inadequately addressing sexual interactions between cognitively impaired nursing home... READ MORE

Hall Render is pleased to announce attorney Jordan Tanoury has joined the firm’s Dallas office. Jordan practices in the Health Counsel group out of Hall Render’s Dallas office and focuses on regulatory, compliance, operational and corporate transactional matters. She provides services to a broad array of health care providers, including hospitals, health systems and physician... READ MORE

Hall Render is pleased to announce attorney Katherine Schwartz has joined the firm’s Indianapolis office. Katherine assists clients with a broad range of health law matters. Her practice includes hospital/physician contracting, hospital and health system relationships, regulatory and compliance issues and hospital/physician alignment. Katherine serves a variety of health care providers including hospitals, physician... READ MORE

The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced on December 4, 2018 that a hospitalist group (“Group”) that works with hospitals and nursing homes to provide internal medicine physicians has agreed to pay $500,000 and adopt a corrective action plan to settle alleged violations of the Health Insurance... READ MORE

On November 29, 2018, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced some significant changes to the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ’s”) policies on investigating corporate wrongdoing. These changes pull back some of the guidance that was first announced in a public memorandum issued by former Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates (“Yates Memo”) in 2015, especially... READ MORE

Congress Passes Two-Week Stopgap Funding Measure On December 6, Congress passed a continuing resolution that extends current funding for select federal agencies for two weeks. The extension became necessary after the services for former President George H.W. Bush halted almost all legislative activity on Capitol Hill this week. Lawmakers will now have until December... READ MORE

The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) recently announced a notice of proposed rulemaking that would require employers seeking to file cap-subject H-1B petitions to first electronically register with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”). The proposed rule would also reverse the order that USCIS selects H-1B petitions under the H-1B cap and the advanced... READ MORE

Compliance professionals live in a world of constant change. As new laws are passed, new regulations are finalized, and public health crises emerge, compliance professionals are expected to guide their organizations through uncharted territory to the destinations chosen by other leaders. Although predicting the future is impossible, compliance priorities rarely develop in isolation. This article surveys significant compliance landmarks from 2018 to help compliance professionals plan for... READ MORE

On October 24, 2018, Congress enacted a new law titled the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018 (“EKRA”) as part of the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018 (“SUPPORT Act”). The SUPPORT Act is a comprehensive law that seeks to combat the opioid... READ MORE