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Don’t Wait – CMS Expects Hospitals to Take Action on Informed Consent for Certain Exams and Procedures

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Hospitals should not delay in reviewing and revising their surgical informed consent forms and policies. On April 1, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued new guidance regarding informed consent...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Updated Requirements for Informed Consent: HHS Issues New Guidance on Sensitive Exams

On April 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) released new guidance which requires hospitals to obtain informed consent from patients before practitioners, or medical or other students, perform...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Key Considerations for Healthcare Providers Responding to Law Enforcement Requests

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Why is everyone talking about provider disclosures to law enforcement of late? The Senate Finance Committee authored a letter to Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), outlining...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The 21st Century Cures Act: FDA Reforms Aim to Spur Innovation in the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device and Health Research Sectors

On December 13, 2016, President Obama signed into law the 21st Century Cures Act (Act), one of the most important pieces of health care and life sciences legislation in several decades. The Act is intended to spur the rapid...more

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