Recently, the New York State Department of Health published its FY 2023 "Medicaid Scorecard" that outlines various Medicaid-related initiatives for the upcoming year. Of interest to home care providers, the Scorecard was updated to [...]
New York Senator John Mannion, the Chairman of Committee on Disabilities, has introduced a bill to repeal and replace the CDPAP RFO with a registration process for all fiscal intermediaries that are operating as [...]
The State DOH has once again updated the isolation and quarantine requirements for healthcare staff (see here). The changes largely affect individuals who are exposed but not infected. For infected healthcare staff, employers in [...]
Effective Thursday, February 10, 2022, Governor Hochul lifted the "vaccinate or mask up" mandate for the majority of New York businesses. However, healthcare settings are excluded from this waiver and must continue to require [...]
Congress yesterday passed a bill that would make pre-dispute arbitration agreements and class action waivers covering sexual assault and sexual harassment claims invalid and unenforceable. The bill is headed to President Joe Biden’s desk, [...]
By way of background, in 2020, the State amended the law to authorize the New York Department of Health (“DOH”) to contract with one entity to conduct independent assessments for individuals seeking personal care [...]
Last week, a grand jury indicted four managers of home health care agencies for allegedly conspiring to “suppress wages and restrict the job mobility of” essential workers. The indictment alleges that the four individuals [...]
Recently, Governor Hochul extended an Executive Order that has been providing waivers from certain regulatory requirements for LHCSAs. Specifically, as relevant to home care, the Executive Order allows: Initial patient visits for CHHAs to [...]
The State Department of Health (DOH) has published on its website self- attesting quarantine and isolation forms that employees may use to demonstrate eligibility for the State’s COVID-19 COVID sick leave pay. As we [...]
As we had previously reported, New York's Public Health and Health Planning Councilearlier this month adopted a requirement that covered healthcare entities ensure thattheir personnel are “boosted” against COVID-19. The adoption of the booster [...]