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OIG Greenlights Manufacturer’s Travel-Related Financial Assistance Offering

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On June 17, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) posted a favorable Advisory Opinion 24-03 (“AO 24-03”) involving a pharmaceutical manufacturer’s proposed patient...more

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Balancing Lawyering and Caregiving in the Sandwich Generation: A Woman’s Perspective

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Alzheimer’s. April 2023 (I’d dig out the exact date, but that would take even more time away from caretaking and lawyering).  That’s when my 76-year-old mother, my only remaining parent, who had been living alone 163 miles...more

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Idaho’s New Essential Caregiver Visitation Law

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Idaho implemented a new law that gives people receiving in-person healthcare services the right to be visited by essential caregivers of their choosing under certain conditions. I.C. § 39-9802. The law, which became effective...more

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CMS Announces New GUIDE Model for People Living with Dementia and Their Caregivers

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The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced a new, voluntary and nationwide test model designed to support two rapidly growing demographic groups: people living with dementia, and their unpaid...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

New Puerto Rico Law Grants Workers Registered as Informal Caregivers Additional Rights

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Puerto Rico’s Informal Care Public Policy Act (ICPPA) amends the Puerto Rico Working Hours and Days Act to establish new rights and protections for individuals duly certified as “informal caregivers.” The ICPPA took effect...more

Foley Hoag LLP

CMMI Announces Medicare Dementia Care Model

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The GUIDE Model is an eight-year model that will test an alternative payment for participants that delivers key supportive services to people with dementia, including comprehensive, person-centered assessments and care plans,...more

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Virginia Paid Sick Leave For Home Health Workers

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Effective July 1, 2021, Virginia joins the District of Columbia and many other states with paid leave for designated workers (Virginia’s Paid Sick Leave Law), home health workers in this case. Paid sick leave is compensated...more

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News from the Vermont State House - An Analysis from DRM’s Government & Public Affairs Team - January 2017 #2

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Treasurer Will Build Public Pension Plan for Small Business - State Treasurer Beth Pearce on Wednesday asked the Senate Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs Committee to create the framework for a...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Health Update - July 2015

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Lessons From the Frontlines: Strategies for Supporting Informed Consumer Decision-Making in the Health Insurance Marketplace - Editor's Note: As marketplaces prepare for the third open enrollment period, consumers are...more

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Adult Day Care: Providing a Break for Caregivers

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Caregiving is hard work and it is easy for caregivers to get burned out. Adult day care centers provide care and companionship in a group setting to seniors who need supervision during the day, allowing their caregivers to go...more

King & Spalding

Publication of Home Health Prospective Payment System Final Rule

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On December 2, 2013, the Federal Register published CMS’s final rule regarding the home health prospective payment system (PPS) and home health quality reporting requirements. The final rule reduces payments under the PPS by...more

Troutman Pepper

Summary Of HUD’s LEAN 232 Program E-Mail Blast: Office Of Residential Care Facilities (ORCF), June 26, 2013

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In an effort to summarize the highlights of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) LEAN E-mail Blasts that we receive, and rarely have time to review in a timely fashion, we at Pepper are providing this...more

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