02 Jun, 2022 Physician Shared Savings/Shared Losses Contracts - Pitfalls and Uncertainties By Leah Ranke Value based payment models are replacing fee for service reimbursement for healthcare providers across all specialties. Payments that had...
03 Jan, 2022 2022 HEALTHCARE LAW UPDATE By Leah Ranke NY NURSING HOME STAFFING, SPENDING FOR RESIDENT CARE, RATINGS On January 1, 2022, N.Y. Public Health Law § 2895-b(3)(a) will take effect,...
23 Nov, 2021 Pharmacies Found Liable for Opioid Crisis Under Public Nuisance Law By Colligan Law A federal jury in Ohio today "found that three of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains, CVS Health, Walmart and Walgreens, substantially...
19 Oct, 2021 App Developers Take Note: HIPAA Breach Notification Rules Apply To You By Leah Ranke The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has issued a policy brief confirming that apps including health care apps, finders, trackers, and...
26 May, 2021 Another Software Reports HIPAA Compliance Failures By Leah Ranke Scheduling software Zocdoc announced this week that for the second time, their software as a service product failed to be HIPAA...
04 May, 2021 ARPA-H, a new DARPA for HealthCare By Leah Ranke The current administration is announcing the creation of a new agency, to be called ARPA-Healthcare (ARPA-H), an Advanced Research...
26 Jun, 2020 Task Force Suggests Pool Testing - More Tests not Fewer By Leah Ranke In its first briefing since April 27, 2020, the White House Coronavirus Task Force meets today to take questions from the press. Testing...
16 Apr, 2020 Google and Apple’s Contact Tracing Tech vs. HIPAA Privacy By Leah Ranke The United States missed the window of opportunity on COVID-19 contact tracing - or did we? Several tech companies, including mammoth...
13 Apr, 2020 Masks now required for essential businesses in New York. By Matthew Pelkey Sunday April 12, 2020, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo Announced that essential businesses would be required to provide masks to all...
27 Mar, 2020 Pets CAN get sick from COVID-19 but Do Not Spread COVID-19 to Humans By Leah Ranke Updated 5/5/2020 Experts now say dogs and cats CAN get sick from COVID-19, but do not play a role in the carrying or spreading of...
26 Mar, 2020 Breaking down the federal stimulus bill. By Alexander Vilardo The U.S. Senate unanimously passed its stimulus bill to help families and businesses stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. Next, the...
10 Jan, 2020 Supreme Court 2020 Watch on Health Insurance By Leah Ranke Amid many other cases already announced for the second half of this Supreme Court Term is a request from a group of State Attorneys...
10 Jan, 2020 PBM Regulation: The Future of Independent Pharmacies in NY By Leah Ranke Pharmacists protested this week in Albany, NY ahead of the State of the State Address because the Governor has vetoed proposed...
31 Dec, 2019 At-Home DNA Kits Pose Security Risk By Leah Ranke Tens of millions of people have used at-home DNA kits like 23 and Me, or Ancestry.com. The results are interesting and fun. But are they...
31 Dec, 2019 Employer and Retirement Changes in Huge End-of-Year Spending Package: SECURE Act By Leah Ranke Employers and Retirement Plans reportedly earn big changes starting in 2020, including headlines noting highlights like these: Small...
26 Dec, 2019 Key Health Care Law Provisions in Court Ruling, CMS Rules, and the $1.4 Trillion Spending Law By Leah Ranke Signed into law on December 20th, 2019, the $1.4 trillion federal spending package includes repeal of significant health taxes in the...