Mike Cassidy’s article, “Return to practice under the COVID threat” appears in the Bulletin of the Allegheny County Medical Society June edition.
June 2020
Federal Court Rejects American Hospital Association Challenge to Trump Price Transparency Rule
By Michael Cassidy on
Posted in Articles
On June 23, 2020, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia denied the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) summary judgment motion claiming the Trump Administration had exceeded its authority and violated the First Amendment when it issued a new rule requiring greater price transparency.
The Opinion is attached in the link below. It…
OIG Work Plan: Nursing Homes and COVID
By Michael Cassidy on
Posted in Articles, Long Term Care
This is a link to the update of the OIG Work Plan that you will see it includes several new entries regarding COVID issues at nursing homes:
- Meeting the challenges presented by COVID
- Audit of nursing homes reporting of COVID-19 information
- Nursing home oversight during COVID-19.
Will COVID Finally Bring Telehealth Professional Licensing into the 21st Century?
By Michael Cassidy on
The COVID pandemic has illuminated the need to modernize professional licensing. Although professional licensing has always been a necessary vigilance with licensing has always been appropriate, and never more so than as highlighted by the opioid epidemic and telemedicine fraud schemes when physicians could issue prescriptions and orders for services over the internet for patients…