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Cal/OSHA COVID-19 Regulation Sunsets February 3, 2025

The last California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) COVID-19 regulation came into effect on February 3, 2023, with provisions scheduled to sunset on February 3, 2025. There have been no further...more

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FDA Publishes Guidance on Medical Device Shortages During Public Health Emergencies

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Our FDA/Food, Drug & Device and Health Care teams discuss new guidance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on federal notification requirements for medical device manufacturing shortages during public health...more

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COVID-19 Telehealth Flexibilities Extending and Enduring

In the wake of an end of year filled with intense negotiations and political wrangling, Congress has successfully enacted the American Relief Act, 2025 ("the Budget Bill" or "legislation"), narrowly averting a government...more

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CMS Issues Interim Final Rule for CMS Enforcement of State Compliance with Reporting and Federal Medicaid Renewal Requirements

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On December 4, 2023, CMS issued an interim final rule (the Interim Rule) (RIN 0938-AV26) to implement new enforcement authorities that CMS may use if states fail to comply with new reporting requirements or with federal...more

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COVID-19 Related Medical Devices: FDA Finalizes Transition Plan Guidance

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On March 27, 2023, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) released two final guidance documents to assist with transitioning medical devices: (i) that were subject to certain enforcement policies issued during the COVID-19...more

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[Webinar] SECURE 2.0 and Hot Topics in Employee Benefits - April 25th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

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Join FordHarrison attorneys Tiffany Downs and Rena Felton as they discuss: - the SECURE 2.0 Act mandatory and discretionary provisions, - Plan implications for the end of the COVID-19 National Emergency and the COVID-19...more

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Washington's COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Expires October 31, 2022

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Washington State’s COVID-19 emergency declaration expires October 31, 2022 but the Health Emergency Labor Standards Act (HELSA) administered by the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I), and codified at WAC...more

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HRSA Offers Second Chances in Provider Relief Funding and Reporting

The initial phase of Provider Relief Funds (“Funds”) was distributed in April 2020, and since then, many providers have been playing catch up. The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) recently addressed two...more

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CMS Issues Outpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rule for CY 2022

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On July 19, 2021, CMS published a proposed rule to update the payment policies, payment rates and other provisions for services furnished under the Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Ambulatory...more

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Washington State’s New Health Emergency Labor Standards Act

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Governor Jay Inslee recently signed the Health Emergency Labor Standards Act (HELSA or the Act), a sweeping worker protection bill recently passed by the state legislature. The Act amends the state’s worker’s compensation and...more

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Washington Passes Two New Laws To Prepare For The Next Pandemic

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Washington has adopted new laws that presume workers’ compensation coverage for “frontline employees,” creating reporting requirements, and provide additional protections for “high risk” workers designed to better prepare the...more

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Ontario Begins Workplace Safety Inspection Compliance ‘Blitz’ Focused on COVID-19 Safety Measures

Effective January 20, 2021, the Ontario government is increasing workplace inspections of retailers and other workplaces as part of a crackdown on compliance to ensure COVID-19 safety protocols are being followed and...more

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Toronto Employers Face New COVID-19 Reporting Requirements

On January 4, 2021, the City of Toronto announced that employers and workplaces operating in Toronto’s public health unit will be subject to new reporting requirements regarding positive COVID-19 cases. In addition, Toronto...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

New Year Brings Significant Changes to Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

The Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule for Calendar Year 2021 (the Final Rule) issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on December 1, 2020, and published in the Federal Register on December 28,...more

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CMS Announces 14-Week Timeline for Hospitals to Comply with Daily COVID-19 Reporting Requirements or Risk Termination from...

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On October 6, 2020, CMS announced new enforcement measures to ensure hospitals report daily COVID-19 data, with the exception of psychiatric and rehabilitation hospitals that must report weekly, to the federal government...more

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CMS Issues Interim Final Rule to Enforce COVID-19 Reporting Requirements

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published an Interim Final Rule in the Federal Register on September 2, 2020 to supplement and strengthen the agency’s enforcement of COVID-19 reporting requirements. The...more

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New CMS regulations bolster enforcement of COVID-19 reporting by hospitals, long-term care facilities and labs

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On August 25, 2020 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued interim final regulations known as CMS-3401-IFC that become effective immediately upon publication in the Federal Register, scheduled for September...more

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CMS Releases Interim Rule that ties COVID-19 Data Reporting to Hospital Conditions of Participation

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On Aug. 25, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule (IFR) as an emergency regulation under the public health emergency (PHE). Under the IFR, CMS will require all hospitals to which...more

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Los Angeles County Proposes that Employees Report COVID-19 Violations through Public Health Commissions

On July 21, 2020, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a motion to enforce the monitoring of compliance with County health orders by encouraging workers to directly report health code violations through...more

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OSHA Publishes New FAQs on Reporting Hospitalizations and Fatalities Due to COVID-19

On July 15, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a new interpretation of the hospitalization reporting requirement of 29 C.F.R. § 1904.39(b)(6), one that states...more

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How to Track and Report Recyclables Landfilled Due to COVID-19

CalRecycle Issues Guidance to Local Agencies The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery released guidance for how a city, county or a regional agency responsible for meeting Integrated Waste Management...more

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CARES Act Relief Fund: Reporting, Use of Funds, & Reminders

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As guidance continues to change on the Provider Relief Fund payments made to health care providers, a number of providers have asked us about reporting and use of the funds. Reporting Requirements - Question: Do...more

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OSHA Revises Its Guidance For Recording Work-Related COVID-19 Cases

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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) generally requires employers to report and record workplace injuries. OSHA has published revised guidance regarding its recordkeeping...more

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The “Preventing Essential Medical Device Shortages Act of 2020”: COVID-19 Side Effect that Could Permanently Harm Medical Device...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic crisis—infecting more than 2.7 million people worldwide, with almost 870,000 cases in the United States alone as of the writing of this article—has thrown nearly every industry into chaos as the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Data Reporting, Patient Access and Malpractice Liability: Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care Facilities Command Federal and State...

On April 23, 2020, the Kaiser Family Foundation (“KFF”) issued a report authored by Priya Chidambaram entitled, “State Reporting of Cases and Deaths Due to COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Facilities.” In the KFF report, Ms....more

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