On March 15, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a continuing resolution extending funding of the federal government through September 2025. Included in the continuing resolution were provisions that also extended Medicare telehealth flexibilities through September 2025.
Many providers in the healthcare industry have come to rely upon these virtual services for the delivery of care
On February 28, 2025, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey filed an opinion approved for publication in S.V. v. RWJ Barnabas Health. The court reversed the denial of a motion for summary judgment and ordered the dismissal of the psychiatric malpractice complaint. In an opinion written by Judge Sabatino, it
The January 30, 2025 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains an article entitled “Providing Interstate Telehealth Abortion Services to Patients in Restrictive States.” In the second sentence, the authors write: “The complexities of telehealth regulation in the United States often result in areas of liability and concern for clinicians providing
In another in the seemingly endless series of decisions parsing the interpretation of the statutory requirements for an affidavit of merit in medical liability claims, on January 22, 2025 the New Jersey Supreme Court issued its unanimous opinion in Wiggins v. Hackensack Meridian Health. The court ruled that in a case against a physician
Greenbaum healthcare attorneys Neil M. Sullivan and Jennifer A. Belardo analyze the CMS’s Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Managed Care final rule – and its impact on states, healthcare providers, and health plans navigating the Medicaid landscape – in this article recently published by the HFMA’s New Jersey Chapter in its Garden State
On September 26, 2024, the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate. The bill would amend the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and direct the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop new “mandatory minimum cybersecurity standards for health care providers, health plans, clearinghouses and
The Attorney General of New Jersey and the Director of the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights jointly commenced a lawsuit against the Virtua Health System and its constituent hospitals alleging that its policy and practices concerning universal drug testing of all pregnant patients constituted unlawful discrimination based on pregnancy and sex in violation of
A recent post on this blog previewed the issues raised in the case of Govatos v. Murphy related to the residency requirement in the New Jersey Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act.
On September 18, 2024, the Honorable Renée Marie Bumb, the Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the
The federal Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) requires many business entities to disclose information about their business ownership to FinCEN. Healthcare entities should note that the CTA does not have an exemption for healthcare practitioners, and so small to mid-size healthcare practices of all kinds, as well as practices falling into the “friendly PC” model, are
The NJ Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has scheduled a stakeholder meeting for Tuesday, September 17, 2024, for the purpose of receiving comments and input regarding the Competitive Solicitation Incentive (CSI) component of the New Jersey solar energy renewable energy certificate program, sometimes referred to as the Successor Solar Incentive (SuSI) Program. Alternatively, stakeholders are