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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and analyses; and other health policy news. Week in Review Highlight of the Week: This week, HHS announced it is providing $150 million to community-based health care providers to aid their response to COVID-19. Read more about this funding and other news below. I. Regulations, Notices & Guidance On April 21, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In late October, the Trump Administration, through the Departments of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), the Treasury, and Labor (“Departments”), issued two different rules — one implementing the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”) COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and the other implementing the Affordable Care Act’s transparency mandate. These rules were part of a rush of health care regulations pushed out the door in the last few months of the Trump Administration. On October 28, 2020, the Depa...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Some found it somewhat ironic when, only one week before the Acting Solicitor General appeared before the United States Supreme Court to argue that Congress effectively repealed the entire Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) in December 2017 by reducing the tax penalty for not having health coverage to zero, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (“CMS”), joined by the Employee Benefits Services Administration and the Internal Revenue Service, announced final new rules implementing an obscure provision of the ACA, namely Sec...