Health Care Law News and Insights

On Monday, May 16, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) passed a self-imposed 60-day deadline to notify states that they did not plan to extend the Public Health Emergency (PHE), which has been in place since Jan. 31, 2020. HHS most recently extended the PHE for 90 days...

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CMS Releases FY 2023 Medicare IPPS & LTCH PPS Proposed Rule CMS issued the fiscal year 2023 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System ("IPPS") and Long-Term Care Hospital ("LTCH") Prospective Payment System (PPS) proposed rule, 87 FR 28108, on April 18, 2022 updating Medicare fee-for-service payment rates and policies for inpatient...

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Houston, Texas (May 16, 2022) - On Friday, May 13, 2022, the Texas Supreme Court issued an important opinion addressing but-for causation in Pediatrics Cool Care v. Ginger Thompson (o/b/o A.W.). In this case, tragically, the minor plaintiff A.W. committed suicide after seeing her pediatric healthcare provider and complaining of feelings of...

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