May 31, 2023 Texas Hospital-at-Home Program Is Official & HHSC Again Extends Emergency Rule By Ramana Rameswaran Kenya Scott Woodruff Michelle Apodaca Joe Lecroy +1 more... Show less Recently we published a post, titled "Texas Legislature Provides Pathway for Continuation of Hospital-at-Home Program," which discussed...
May 19, 2023 Texas Legislature Provides Pathway for Continuation of Hospital-at-Home Program By Joe Lecroy Ramana Rameswaran Kenya Scott Woodruff Michelle Apodaca +1 more... Show less On May 16, 2023, the Texas legislature passed and sent to the Texas Governor House Bill 1890. If signed by the Governor, Texas would...
May 14, 2023 Florida Health Information Storage Changes Taking Effect on July 1, 2023 By Ramana Rameswaran Foreign Interests in the health care provider environment have generally meant ownership interests of persons from outside of the state...
May 11, 2023 The Waivers Era Is Over Now That the End of the Public Health Emergency Is Here By Sounia Senemar In a memorandum issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on May 1, 2023, CMS provided guidance to State Survey...
May 09, 2023 Q&A With Lisa Atlas Genecov: Partner and National Health Care Chair By Karolen Younan In March, a group of Katten attorneys attended the ABA Health Law Section’s Emerging Issues in Health Care conference in San Diego....
May 03, 2023 Ramana Rameswaran on His Rise to Partnership By Katten DEI Among the attorneys featured in our DEI Annual Report is M. Ramana Rameswaran, who was to partner in 2022, about three years after he...
May 02, 2023 Katten Helps Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas Expand Services to Underserved Patients By Katten Cares Prompted by a call for assistance from Jewish Family Service of Greater Dallas (JFS), partner and Health Care Department Chair Lisa...
May 02, 2023 CMS Plays Hardball with Hospital Price Transparency Enforcement Updates By Ryan Meyer Kenya Scott Woodruff Joe Lecroy The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on April 26, 2023, that it would be updating its enforcement processes for...
Apr 24, 2023 Increased Physician Compensation and the End of the PHE By Ramana Rameswaran Considering the difficulties physicians faced during the pandemic, it may not be surprising to find that compensation increased during...
Apr 21, 2023 DOJ Announces Another COVID-19 Healthcare Fraud Takedown By Ryan Meyer Johnjerica Hodge Jordan Gleeson DOJ Announces Another COVID-19 Healthcare Fraud Takedown As we predicted last month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has continued to...
Mar 22, 2023 Florida Appellate Court Rules That Slip and Fall Safety Report is Privileged under Patient Safety Act By Michael Callahan The plaintiff in this negligence suit against Shands Teaching Hospital in Florida was visiting a patient when she slipped and fell on...
Mar 01, 2023 Georgia Appellate Court Reverses Trial Court Decision Holding Physician Variously Liable for PA's Alleged Negligence By Michael Callahan "The General Assembly knows how to impose liability by statute when it chooses to, and we will not read into the [Physician Assistant...
Feb 07, 2023 The FTC and Protection of Health Care Data By Lisa Prather Most people, and especially health care providers, are familiar with HIPAA and its relation to protecting the privacy and security of a...
Jan 04, 2023 Joint Commission Eliminates 56 Acute Care Hospital Accreditation Standards By Michael Callahan Effective February 19, 2023, The Joint Commission is eliminating 56 acute care hospital accreditations and revising four others. The...
Dec 09, 2022 AMA and other physician groups request Wisconsin Supreme Court to uphold decision in Ivermectin treatment dispute By Michael Callahan There have been many lawsuits filed around the country in which trial courts have ordered hospitals to grant emergency clinical...
Nov 09, 2022 Gil Soffer Presenting on Critical Insights into DOJ Health Care Enforcement Priorities and Investigation Tactics By Health Care Managing partner of Katten's Chicago office and national co-chair of the Litigation practice, Gil Soffer, will be participating in the...