Insights on Health Care

Sixty-nine Arent Fox LLP attorneys have been rated as leaders in their profession by The Best Lawyers in America 2022.

JD Supra has awarded our Investigations team with its 2021 Readers’ Choice Award as the Top Firm for White Collar analysis. The award comes during a year when the legal intelligence platform quadrupled its content production.

Hospitals have long used color-coded wristbands as a patient safety initiative. Recently, the FDA issued a letter to medical device manufacturers to caution them against using colors for device identification wristbands that could create confusion for clinicians and result in inappropriate medical

In Natarajan v. Dignity Health, the Supreme Court rejected a physician’s challenge to a peer review hearing officer based on alleged financial bias. In doing so, the Court gave hospitals helpful and long-needed guidance regarding such challenges

CMS has released a proposed rule (the Proposed Rule) which, if finalized and adopted, would rescind the Trump Administration’s attempt to align reimbursement under Medicare Part B for certain drugs with benchmark pricing obtained from surveys of other countries.

By September 30, all hospital workers—including physicians—must be vaccinated.

Health Care Practice Leader Douglas Grimm presented to the Center for Telehealth & eHealth Law (CTeL) on August 6 regarding the statuses of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergencies (PHEs) across the United States.

JD Supra has awarded our Investigations team with its 2021 Readers’ Choice Award as the Top Firm for White Collar analysis. The award comes during a year when the legal intelligence platform quadrupled its content production.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its annual proposed rule related to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems (HOPPS) (the Proposed Rule). Comments on the Proposed Rule are due no later than September 17, 2021. 

Health Care Partner David Greenberg will present in a Strafford CLE webinar about health insurer audits, overpayment demands, and recoveries on August 5.

On July 29, 2021, the California Supreme Court issued a major anti-SLAPP decision in Bonni v. St. Joseph Health System et al. The decision is both encouraging and disappointing for California medical staffs and the hospitals where they serve.

Effective August 2, 2021, Virginia’s Health and Safety Codes Board adopted OSHA’s, June 21, 2021, Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from occupational exposure to COVID-19.

On May 5, 2021, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the New York Health and Essential Rights Act (“NY HERO Act”) into law. The NY HERO Act requires extensive workplace health and safety protections and seeks to protect employees from exposure and disease from future ai

With COVID-19 rates again rising rapidly among unvaccinated individuals, California health care and government leaders are pushing to increase vaccination rates for healthcare workers in the state.

Expanded telehealth services temporarily permitted during the COVID-19 public health emergency would be further extended to December 21, 2023, in order for CMS to conduct analyses regarding permanent expansion of certain telehealth services.

On July 19, 2021, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) renewed the declaration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), effective July 20, 2021.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) calendar year 2022 rule proposing changes to payment policies under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) and Medicare Part B (the Proposed Rule) will officially be published in the Federal Register on July 23, 2021.

On July 1, 2021, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury, and the Office of Personnel Management, released a much-anticipated interim final rule designed to protect Americans from surprise medical bills.

In this clip from our webinar, “Legal and Operational Considerations for Healthcare Employers During This Ever Changing Time of COVID and Vaccines,” Health Care Partner Jill Steinberg addresses the operational and regulatory concerns of mandating the COVID-19 vaccine.

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that has a direct impact on the 340B Drug Discount Program (the 340B Program) and how Medicare will reimburse hospitals for dispensing of 340B covered drugs, as well as other reimbursement issues.

Schiff advised Altaris Capital Partners, LLC on its acquisition of Padagis LLC, formerly the generic prescription pharmaceuticals business of Perrigo Company plc, for $1.55 billion.

Schiff Hardin LLP is proud to announce that the firm and four of its attorneys have been ranked in the 2021 edition of IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals, a guide that identifies top patent professionals based on 1,800 interviews with private practice and in-house professionals.

Health Care Partner Anne Murphy will present at the American Health Law Association’s (AHLA) Annual Meeting on June 28.

Health Care Partner Lowell Brown and Associate Annie Chang Lee will present as part of the California Association Medical Staff Services’ (CAMSS) 50th Annual Education Forum on June 24, 2021.

Our panel offers insight on providing incentives vs. mandating the COVID-19 vaccine during the “Legal and Operational Considerations for Healthcare Employers During This Ever Changing Time of COVID and Vaccines” webinar.