Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 199: Bringing Awareness to Organ and Tissue Donation with Dave DeStefano of We Are Sharing Hope
This week, Heather and Lauren welcome back previous guest Dave DeStefano, the President & CEO of We Are Sharing Hope SC, a federally designated Organ Procurement Organization that facilitates life-saving organ and...more
In its continuing efforts to improve the organ donation and transplant system and promote health equity, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), acting through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...more
Five NJ nephrology practices combine under Northeast Kidney Care banner - The combined company claims to be the largest independent group of nephrologists in the state, with 26 locations. ...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Nov. 1, 2022, released the calendar year (CY) 2023 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Final Rule...more
As both the Senate and House continue their investigations into the organ transplant system (see Senate investigation and House investigation), and given the Biden Administration's ongoing focus on achieving health equity via...more
With many hospitals well into their FY 2021 Medicare cost report preparation, here is a brief reminder of the process required for protesting items, as well as a summary of two new developments for Medicare Graduate Medical...more
Benesch reviews state, federal modifications to restrictive covenant laws - In a “Year-End Review,” Benesch points out there was considerable activity in trade secret and restrictive covenant law in 2021. Some of the...more
On November 8, 2021, the Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court order that denied an attempt to preliminarily block the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network’s (OPTN) policy changing the manner in which donor kidneys are...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently reached a settlement agreement with a Massachusetts hospital under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to resolve claims that its transplant consideration process...more
It may come as no surprise that, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the national organ transplantation rate has plummeted. Despite CMS's recently published guidance identifying transplants as Tier 3b procedures that should...more
On January 21, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted in part and denied in part a motion challenging a new HHS policy for allocating livers to transplant patients in the United States. The...more
On September 25, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a lower court’s decision to deny a motion for a preliminary injunction to stay the implementation of the new policy for allocating...more
On September 26, 2019, CMS issued a Final Rule that CMS intends will reform certain Medicare regulations related to standards and certifications that CMS identified as “unnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome.” CMS...more
On January 22, 2019, twenty-two (22) Senators sent a bipartisan letter to HHS (the Letter) to voice their concerns over a change in the national liver distribution policy adopted on December 3, 2018 (Revised Policy), by the...more
The proposed rule, issued on February 7, 2013, would make reforms to existing Medicare regulations applicable to hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, intermediate care facilities for individuals who are intellectually...more
On February 4, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule to reform Medicare regulations that CMS views as unnecessary, obsolete, and/or excessively burdensome on hospitals and health care...more