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2 months ago | 
mondaq.com | Benjamin A. Steinberg |Shalyn Watkins
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) recently issued threenew rules making permanent multiple COVID-era telemedicineflexibilities, as well as adopting associated patientprotections. The Expansion of Buprenorphine Treatment rule seeks to ensureaccessible treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) while alsoprotecting against the improper distribution of thismedication.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
birminghammedicalnews.com | Shalyn Watkins
By Shalyn Watkins
Signing a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is a standard practice for most healthcare providers and businesses. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires that covered entities, business associates and downstream business associate subcontractors enter into a BAA when contracting for services that require the sharing of Protected Health Information (PHI) outside the organization.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Ken Yood |Shalyn Watkins |John Saran |Sam Jacobs
Holland & Knight recently hosted a virtual roundtable
discussion with Sheila Tatayon, assistant deputy director of Health
Systems Compliance and chief counsel for California's Office of
Health Care Affordability (OHCA), and Holland & Knight
Healthcare Partners Kenneth Yood and John Saran. Holland &
Knight Associate Shalyn Watkins moderated the presentation.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
today.westlaw.com | Shalyn Watkins
Business associate agreements should be read, reviewed, and negotiated prior to execution. Highlights• Signing a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is standard practice for most healthcare providers and businesses, but these parties sometimes do not...
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Shalyn Watkins
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Shalyn Watkins
Signing a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is standard practice for most healthcare providers and businesses, but these parties sometimes do not read the agreement or even execute it as stated. BAAs are critically important, and how they are treated by affected entities can mean success or failure for a compliance program – especially in light of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Shalyn Watkins
HighlightsSigning a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is standard practice for most healthcare providers and businesses, but these parties sometimes do not read the agreement or even execute it as stated. BAAs are critically important, and how they are treated by affected entities can mean success or failure for a compliance program – especially in light of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Morgan Ivey |John Saran |Shalyn Watkins
From the West Coast Healthcare Desk There will be no statewide ban on the "friendly physician model" directly coming out of the Envision Healthcare Corp. (Envision) lawsuit in California. In this lawsuit, American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group Inc. (AAEM-PG) made factual allegations of inappropriate control by a lay person – Envision – of clinical matters, in violation of established restrictions on the corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) in the State of California.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Shalyn Watkins |John Saran |Kenneth Yood |Morgan Ivey
From the West Coast Healthcare Desk There will be no statewide ban on the "friendly physician model" directly coming out of the Envision Healthcare Corp. (Envision) lawsuit in California. In this lawsuit, American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group Inc. (AAEM-PG) made factual allegations of inappropriate control by a lay person – Envision – of clinical matters, in violation of established restrictions on the corporate practice of medicine (CPOM) in the State of California.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
law360.com | John Saran |Kenneth Yood |Shalyn Watkins
By John Saran, Kenneth Yood and Shalyn Watkins (July 2, 2024, 1:36 PM EDT) -- The friendly professional corporation model is currently being challenged in California on multiple fronts — new legislation and regulations, court decisions interpreting existing legislation and regulation, and new policies and interpretations from governmental and private actors.... Law360 is on it, so you are, too.
