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NATIONAL AbbVie to restrict 340B discounts to safety net hospitals AMA urges Supreme Court to uphold vaccination mandates CDC gives nursing home workers a big break – if they’re boosted CDC shortens COVID isolation rules for health workers CMS Issues Additional Vaccine Mandate Guidance for Nursing Homes CMS releases guidance on healthcare worker vaccination... READ MORE

Note: This article has been revised to include information on the Group 2 states and Texas as of January 25, 2022. Nursing homes face possible citations, civil monetary penalties, denial of payments and—as a final measure—termination of participation from the Medicare and Medicaid programs by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as... READ MORE

Because the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (“DHS”) receives federal financial assistance, it must comply with federal civil rights requirements as a recipient of that financial assistance and must ensure that its recipients of the federal financial assistance also comply with federal civil rights laws. Accordingly, any organization that receives funds from DHS to... READ MORE

As 2022 begins, the federal government, as well as some state and local governments, continue to prioritize the importance of anti-discrimination laws. Indeed, in addition to numerous anti‑discrimination laws that went into effect in 2021, many new laws were passed and signed in 2021 to go into effect in 2022. Yet, as these new... READ MORE

Hall Render has recently announced that John Bowen, Laetitia Cheltenham, Matthew Decker, Stephane Fabus and Amy Poe have been named Shareholders. John Bowen (Indianapolis Office) focuses his practice in the areas of corporate transactions and antitrust. He provides advice and counsel to health systems, hospitals and physician group practices on a range of corporate health... READ MORE

On December 28, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued Guidance for the Interim Final Rule – Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination (the “Guidance”). The Guidance provides direction to surveyors on assessing compliance with CMS’s November 5, 2021 Interim Final Rule (the “IFR”), which established COVID-19... READ MORE