Employers in the health care sector with any operations in New York City face new questions in light of the passage of state and city laws that protect the legal use of marijuana and limit workplace drug testing.
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working to expand the capacity to provide COVID-19 testing in the United States. In the Policy for Diagnostic Tests for Coronavirus Disease-2019 during the Public Health Emergency...more
In the Medicare Telemedicine Health Care Provider Fact Sheet published March 17, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) broadened access to Medicare telehealth services to allow Medicare patients to receive...more
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New federal regulations recently took effect that make significant changes to the “Common Rule,” the uniform set of regulations governing human subject research adopted by 16 federal agencies (most notably the U.S. Department...more