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Jones Day Talks Health Care: The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act
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The General Assembly reconvened for Legislative Day 36 on Monday with lawmakers and lobbyists hoping to keep a little luck of the Irish going into the penultimate week of the legislative session. With only four legislative...more
Friday marked the end of what felt like the longest week in legislative history — and the beginning of a three-week sprint to Legislative Day 40. While most lawmakers and lobbyists are eager for adjournment sine die, it...more
The Georgia State Capitol hallways and hoppers continued to overflow on Thursday. Law Enforcement Day at the Capitol converged with an onslaught of hundreds of charter school students to fill the People’s House with Georgians...more
On June 28, 2023, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed Public Act No. 23-97, “An Act Concerning Health and Wellness for Connecticut Residents.” The Act includes a wide range of provisions aimed at supporting health care...more
Prompted by rising rates of overdose deaths, suicides and incidence of mental illness in at-risk populations, such as children, Congress has spent the better part of the year working in a bipartisan manner to develop and...more
The most recent legislative session of the Connecticut General Assembly produced a number of new statutory provisions impacting the operations of hospitals, physician groups and other health care providers. To help remind the...more
Work continues under the Gold Dome as this Report went live on Tuesday evening, with legislators in the House and Senate jockeying to get their bills and resolutions across the hall before the gavel falls on Crossover Day...more
The House and Senate did get some work done on Legislative Day 22, including approval of the $1.6 billion tax refund package proposed by Governor Kemp in his State of the State address by the House (HB 1302)....more
The House and Senate largely avoided each other on Valentine’s Day, with the Senate quickly gaveling in and taking care of business this morning before the House rolled in for an afternoon convening. It’s unclear whether the...more
The General Assembly took a half day on Friday after a full week of floor debates and committee proceedings. Although the House and Senate addressed a collective six measures on their floors, legislators made quick work of...more
On July 6, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Public Act 21-113 titled “An Act Concerning Opioids” (PA 21-113), which establishes pilot programs to help serve persons with opioid use disorder in urban,...more
On June 25, 2021, the N.C. State Board of Dental Examiners (“the Dental Board”) sent out correspondence to its licensees on some important Legislative updates. In addition to being a member of the N.C. State Bar, I am also a...more
As Tennessee continues to look for options to expand access to opioid treatment services, a new Tennessee law expands the types of providers who may prescribe medication-assisted treatment and imposes certain financial...more
In our prior alert, we discussed the Idaho Patient Act and its impact on medical debt collection after January 1, 2021. Idaho healthcare providers should also be aware of several other new state laws that take effect July 1,...more
As we officially enter the second quarter of the legislative session, the Senate floor saw bipartisan action with the unanimous passage of SB 159. ...more
Last year, the Oklahoma legislature joined a growing number of states in taking direct aim at the opioid crisis by enacting legislation designed to combat the forgery of paper prescriptions. More than a year and a half after...more
Multiple public acts from Connecticut’s 2019 legislative session go into effect on October 1, 2019. Below is a list of public health legislation effective October 1, with links to our previous posts summarizing the acts...more
Colleges and universities in Connecticut must comply with a new law that requires them to implement a policy regarding the availability and use of opioid antagonists by their students and employees not later than January 1,...more
On July 9, 2019, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed into law Public Act No. 19-191 “An Act Addressing Opioid Use” (PA 19-191). PA 19-191 makes various revisions to Connecticut’s opioid use prevention and treatment...more
The most recent Florida legislative session resulted in an array of new laws impacting health care providers. The following is a summary of some of those laws which affect a large number of providers....more
In the last Utah legislative session, several bills were passed that affect the obligations of healthcare facilities and providers. Following is a summary of three important bills that went into effect on May 14, 2019, of...more
Some very important and potentially game-changing legislation was recently passed. On Oct. 24, 2018, Congress enacted the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018 (or EKRA) – a statute that potentially eliminates legal...more
There’s a new federal kickback law to worry about, and it applies to all payors including commercial plans, not just federal health care programs. ...more
Against the backdrop of an unprecedented opioid epidemic claiming the lives of an estimated 130 Americans each day, Congress passed the federal Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for...more