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Governor DeSantis has signed into law the Florida Legislature’s bills addressing COVID vaccinations, effective November 18, 2021 through June 2023. Under the new state laws, a private employer cannot impose a COVID-19 vaccination on full-time or part-time employees or contract employees unless they allow the following exemptions: Medical reasons, including,…

In what might be the biggest news yet during the COVID-19 pandemic, federal agencies issued several mandates in the last couple of weeks requiring a variety of employers to develop and put in place mandatory vaccination programs by early December. At the same time, the State of Florida has not…

Are you or your business a Medicare provider of goods or services to Medicare beneficiaries? Medicare providers are a broad class, including persons, facilities, and agencies, such as home health agencies, hospitals, nursing homes, doctors, DME suppliers, and other companies. If you fall into one of these categories, then you…

If your healthcare business received (or will receive) certain funds from the federal government related to COVID-19 then you should familiarize yourself with some very important dates recently announced by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”). Failure to abide by the reporting requirements before the deadlines could lead…

Telework How long have we heard that telemedicine is the wave of the future? For at least a decade, the biggest impediments to the general acceptance of telemedicine have been widespread consumer acceptance, widespread usage of technological platforms, privacy concerns, and payment rate disincentives. Fear can be an amazing motivator….