Health Care Law News and Insights

One year ago, in March of 2020, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Secretary) declared that, because of the public health emergency resulting from the number of confirmed cases of 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID), circumstances exist to justify the authorization by the Food and Drug...

Read More

West Virginia Bill Seeks to Regulate Parity and Out-of-State Providers On February 10, 2021, members of the West Virginia Legislature introduced Senate Bill 1 ("SB1") which seeks to regulate the use of telemedicine in the state. If passed, the proposed bill would require the Public Employees Insurance Agency, Medicaid and specified insurance...

Read More

Highlights The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's (ONC) final rule on interoperability, information blocking and patient access to data implements certain provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act to support patients' access to their electronic health information (EHI) in a form convenient for patients. The new...

Read More