On June 13, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights issued guidance (the “Guidance”) for covered health care providers and health plans relating to the use of remote communication...more
COVID-19 – and its variants Delta and Omicron – continue to wreak havoc around the world. Thousands of individuals have died and continue to die, and millions more have been diagnosed as having COVID-19. Many sectors of the...more
2/3/2022
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On October 6, 2021, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health (DPH) announced a series of extensions designed to allow healthcare employers and institutions of higher education to comply with the City’s vaccine mandate....more
On August 13, 2021, Philadelphia’s Department of Public Health (“DPH”) announced an emergency regulation mandating COVID-19 vaccines that will affect healthcare institutions and the City’s colleges and universities. Many of...more
On August 6, 2021, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy issued Executive Order 252 as New Jersey and the nation continues to battle COVID-19 and the Delta variant. This most recent Executive Order takes effect on September 7, 2021...more
One year ago – in early 2020 – most of us did not know what COVID-19 meant (co-Corona; vi-Virus; d-disease; 19 – 2019); had no idea how to “zoom”; did not know what social distance meant; and, were largely unfamiliar with...more
2/18/2021
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On October 20, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced the resolution of two (2) sets of religious discrimination complaints to ensure clergy had...more
On July 16, 2020, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced a new $50 million grant program to “help employers provide hazard pay to employees in life-sustaining occupations during the COVID-19 pandemic” (the “Grant Program”)....more
As many parts of the country see lower and stable incidence rates of COVID-19, medical practices are taking steps to reopen or expand clinical services within their physical offices. This guide provides practical advice for...more
INTRODUCTION - The health care world – in fact, THE WORLD – has changed significantly since March with the onset of COVID-19. As we collectively work to return to a “new normal,” the health care delivery system will be one of...more
As states begin the process of “reopening,” Pennsylvania and New Jersey have taken important steps that directly affect physicians. On May 9, the Pennsylvania Department of Health issued a revised guidance document for health...more
On May 8, there were two new developments in Pennsylvania that help psychologists and dentists and their respective patients as the Commonwealth continues to take steps to reopen in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. First,...more
On May 6, 2020, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed an executive order providing a wide range of health care practitioners with protection from civil liability for good faith actions taken during the COVID-19 pandemic. This...more
While we would normally be fixated on April 15th being “tax day”, the COVID-19 pandemic is appropriately the focus of all our collective energies and appreciation for the health care providers who are treating those who...more
On March 28, 2020, in connection with the recently enacted Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it is expanding its accelerated and advance...more
4/8/2020
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On March 23, 2020, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed Executive Order 109 ordering that all elective surgeries performed on adults be suspended in the state after 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 27 in light of the COVID-19...more
Several telemedicine provisions were recently updated at the federal level in an effort to increase patient access to health care services, and New Jersey enacted a telemedicine statute on March 19 in an attempt to address...more
On March 18, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Delaware Governor John Carney issued a second modification to his March 12, 2020 state of emergency declaration. ...more
On March 17, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced it is temporarily easing enforcement of certain regulations issued under the Health Insurance Portability and...more
On March 17, 2020, the Trump administration announced expanded Medicare telehealth coverage allowing Medicare beneficiaries greater access to health care services in the safety of their homes as a “temporary resource.”...more
As health care providers prepare for an increase in patients infected or who suspect they are infected with the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), providers have many considerations to ensure they maintain regulatory...more