The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid has issued a proposed rule (81 Fed. Reg. 39448, 6/16/16) to modernize and revise requirements hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must meet to participate in Medicare and Medicaid. [See “Conditions of Participation” …
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently issued two rules on “how Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA, Pub. Law 101-336, 7/26/90) and Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA, Pub. L. 110-233, 5/21/08) apply …
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It is almost daily that you hear stories about drones on the news. Just one reason why the book Unmanned Aircraft in the National Airspace : Critical Issues, Technology, and the Law is so topical. Drone and unmanned aircraft are …
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The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently added six new nursing home quality measures to its Nursing Home Compare (NHC) website. For the first time, three of the new quality measures include Medicare claims data submitted by …
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One of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell decision made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land. This decision led to the sterilization of 70,000 Americans. This book is a …
