Sep 06, 2023 CMS Calls for Novel Federal Staffing Standards in Nursing Homes By Nikita Yogeshwarun The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposal on September 1 calling for the first national minimum staffing...
Aug 29, 2023 Over $1.8 Billion Saved in 2022 Medicare Shared Savings Program: What Does This Indicate About CMS's Recent 2024 MSSP Proposals? By Katy Baum The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced on August 24 that the Medicare Shared Savings Program (the MSSP) had the...
Aug 24, 2023 SEC Narrows Exemption From FINRA Membership for Broker-Dealers By James Brady Susan Light On August 23, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to SEC Rule 15b9-1 that effectively will require...
Aug 24, 2023 Finally Finally! FINRA Finalizes Amendments to Covered Agency Transaction Requirements Under FINRA's Margin Rule 4210 By Susan Light After seven years of extending the implementation date of the original rulemaking adopted in 2016 for Covered Agency Transactions, the...
Aug 23, 2023 New Texas Medical Billing Requirements Can Leave Hospitals and Other Health Care Facilities Unable to Collect for Services Provided By Joe Lecroy Tracie Bedeaux Starting September 1, 2023, health care facilities in Texas will have to make changes to their billing practices to comply with a newly...
Jun 05, 2023 New Medicare Coverage for Alzheimer's Disease Drugs By Cheryl Camin Murray Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced that Medicare will cover drugs that could slow the progression of...
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 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...
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...
Feb 10, 2023 SEC’s ESG Task Force Strikes Again By Johnjerica Hodge Ryan Meyer India Williams Nicholas Bottcher +1 more... Show less Activision Blizzard Workplace Misconduct Allegations Transformed into Securities Violations In another victory for the Securities and...
Feb 02, 2023 FTC Extends Green Guides Comments Deadline By Chris Cole In response to numerous industry requests, the FTC has extended the deadline for submitting comments to the Green Guides by 60 days, from...
Jan 27, 2023 Sentencing Guidelines Amendment Would Preclude Acquitted Conduct from Being Used at Sentencing By Scott Resnik Michael Rosensaft Nicholas Liotta In what may come as a surprise to many, lawmakers across the political spectrum actually agree on at least one thing: the practice of...
Jan 12, 2023 Second Circuit Decision Curtails Title 18 Insider Trading Liability By Sarah Eichenberger Danette Edwards On December 27, 2022, a divided panel of the Second Circuit issued a majority opinion in United States v. Blaszczak (“Blaszczak II”),...
Dec 22, 2022 Federal Trade Commission to Seek Comment on Green Guides By Chris Cole First issued in 1992 and most recently updated in 2012, the FTC's "Green Guides" are a series of written guidance and recommendations to...
Aug 26, 2022 FINRA Proposes to Reduce TRACE Reporting Time from 15 Minutes to 1 Minute By Susan Light In Regulatory Notice 22-17, FINRA is soliciting comment on a proposal to amend Rule 6730 to reduce the Trade Reporting and Compliance...