WILLIAMS PARKER ADDS QUARTET OF NEW ATTORNEYS

On June 2, 2022, the Florida governor signed the Freedom First budget for State Fiscal Year 2022-2023 (the “Law”), which provided over $600 million in funding to the Agency for Health Care Administration (“AHCA”) to increase the minimum wage for employees of Medicaid providers to at least $15 an hour….
Today, the United States Supreme Court issued rulings on the challenges to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) affecting certain employers with 100 or more employees and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Interim Final Rule on vaccine mandates affecting certain healthcare entities. The…
As we recently shared, the appellate courts dissolved the nationwide injunction preventing the CMS vaccine mandate from going into effect. CMS has now issued new guidance on deadlines for compliance that will impact Florida healthcare employers. According to the new guidance, no later than January 27, 2022, healthcare employers must…
As some may have heard, last week the appellate courts dissolved the nationwide injunctions preventing the OSHA and CMS vaccine mandate regulations from going into effect. So, what does that mean for Florida employers? (Please note that this article focuses on the status of the OSHA and CMS federal regulations…