by Karen McKeithen Schaede | Jun 3, 2021 | Health Care Law
Information blocking is a practice by a health care provider, health information network, or health information exchange that they know, or should know, will likely interfere with, prevent or materially discourage access, exchange or use of electronic health...
by Karen McKeithen Schaede | May 10, 2021 | Health Care Law
Requiring employees to be vaccinated so as not to pose a significant risk to the health or safety of others in the workplace through potential exposure to or spread of the COVID-19 virus is a permitted employer practice. The Americans with Disabilities Act...
by Karen McKeithen Schaede | Apr 5, 2021 | Health Care Law
Here are a few highlights of the Coronavirus Relief Bill called The American Rescue Plan, which was passed and signed into law on March 11, 2021. Aid to the unemployed was expanded by the federal government through the extension of $300-per-week unemployment...
by Karen McKeithen Schaede | Mar 9, 2021 | Health Care Law
On January 21, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published proposed changes to HIPAA and HITECH. This was done to promote the push to value-based healthcare by making sure healthcare providers and health plans can better coordinate patient...
by Revolution Law | Mar 25, 2020 | Health Care Law
A hospital in another state has agreed to pay a fine of $400,000 plus over $77,000 in investigation costs after the State Board of Pharmacy found excessive painkiller doses prescribed to dozens of patients who subsequently died. In addition, its operational license...
by Revolution Law | Mar 18, 2020 | Health Care Law
Earlier this year, the nonprofit investigative newsroom ProPublica published an investigation into a “gaping loophole” in health care law. ProPublica highlighted the story of a Texas personal trainer with a felony conviction who simply lied to the government when he...
