by Gavrila Brotz | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog
Senate Bill 1668, which would have eliminated so-called “phantom damages” to be presented to juries as a tort reform measure, failed in committee and the 2020 Florida legislative session has now ended. “Phantom damages” is the term the litigation defense bar often...
by Jessica Melendez | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog
Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced new measures to expand access to telehealth services during the COVID-19 public health emergency. CMS announced a new policy vastly...
by Stefano Battistoni | Mar 6, 2020 | Blog
Florida Physician Non-Compete Agreements On June 25, 2019, Florida enacted section 542.336, Florida Statutes, which limits the use of physician non-compete agreements between physicians and entities that employ or contract with all physicians who practice the same...
by Jessica Melendez | Feb 14, 2020 | Blog
HHS Issues HHS Issues On January 23, 2020, the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia issued a decision in Ciox Health, LLC v. Azar, et al., which has implications on the type of protected health information that must be transmitted to third parties and...
by Marissel Descalzo | Jan 14, 2020 | Blog
Sober Home Task Force Sober home task force Yesterday, Palm Beach State Attorney Dave Aronberg spoke to a reporter from the Sun Sentinel, announcing that his office will be making arrests in the next 30 to 45 days in the drug recovery industry. These arrests are...
by Gavrila Brotz | Oct 28, 2019 | Blog
Jackson Health System Jackson Health System has paid a $2.1 million fine imposed by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) for three separate HIPAA violations, the investigation into which revealed “a HIPAA compliance program that...
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