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 Client Group A federal jury in Ohio today "found that three of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains, CVS Health, Walmart and Walgreens, substantially...
17 Nov, 2021 Medicines Patent Pool to Sub-License Generics By Leah Ranke Qualified generic drug manufacturers around the world have just had their doors thrown wide open for business in highly unusual moves by...
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...
17 Jun, 2021 Supreme Court Declines to Overturn the ACA By Leah Ranke A group of State Attorneys General and two self-employed Texans were among those seeking once again to challenge the existence of the...
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...
24 Mar, 2020 Colligan Law attorneys join WIVB to discuss COVID-19 impact on businesses and employees. By Matthew Pelkey This week Joe Saeli and myself joined CBS affiliate WIVB to discuss what it means to be an essential business in New York, how to request...
23 Mar, 2020 10 Point Summary of the New York State on PAUSE Plan By Colligan Law Client Group The Governor's 10-point NYS on PAUSE plan is as follows: Effective at 8PM on Sunday, March 22, all non-essential businesses statewide...
22 Mar, 2020 FDA allows pharmacists to make hand sanitizer By Alexander Vilardo As a result of the current pandemic, the FDA has announced that, temporarily, it will not penalize pharmacists in state-licensed...