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Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - January 2024 #2

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News Briefs - DOL Independent Contractor Rule Likely to Be Burden for SNFs - Many skilled nursing operators will need to reclassify their existing relationships with independent contractors and rethink future ones in the wake...more

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Telehealth Providers May Get a Financial Boost Under the FCC’s Connected Care Pilot Program

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The FCC’s Connected Care Pilot Program is poised to defray eligible health care providers’ costs of providing certain telehealth services. On September 3, 2020, the FCC issued additional information and guidance for potential...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

A Quick Reference Guide to Remote Patient Monitoring During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is real-time or near real-time evaluation of a patient’s clinical status outside of a traditional healthcare setting. RPM leverages wireless devices (e.g., weight scale, blood pressure...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Primer on Connected Care Pilot

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This Primer on the Connected Care Pilot Program (CC Pilot) describes eligibility for the program, how the funds can be spent, how the government will distribute the funds and the application process. The CC Pilot is a...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act in the Healthcare Industry

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As healthcare companies increasingly rely on mobile delivery platforms and other technologies to communicate with patients about appointments, billing and other issues related to their healthcare management, the potential for...more

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Debt Collector for Affiliated Physician Group Can Rely on Patient Contact Consent Obtained by Hospital

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Careful drafting of consent and information release provisions can ensure that providers and affiliated physicians and their debt collectors can contact patient cell phones using automatic telephone dialing systems or...more

Buchalter

Avoiding the Costly “Robo No-No”

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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) was enacted to protect consumers from intrusive robocalls, but Congress probably did not foresee that it would result in a windfall for plaintiff’s lawyers. Virtually every...more

Morgan Lewis

FDA Regulation of Hospital-Developed Technologies - Hospital Industry Viewpoint

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As hospitals become increasingly technologically savvy, they are looking to do more and more with their electronic health record systems. What many hospitals do not realize is that some of the functionality they are seeking...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Health Update - November 2014

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“Healthcare-Related” Calls: Ambiguity at the Intersection of HIPAA and TCPA - Editor’s Note: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has established exemptions from certain requirements of the Telephone Consumer...more

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