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Did You Know? - Fall 2021

Disclosure of Experience: Did you know that providers might need to tell their patients how much experience they have with a particular procedure before performing the procedure?

Medigap Steering Incentive Allowed

In a July 2021 advisory opinion, the U.S. Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S.

New Stark and Anti-Kickback Rules: Compensation and Technology

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have issued new rules modernizing the Stark and Anti-Kickback laws.

Maryland Regulatory News

1. In June, the Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC) approved new hospital rates for fiscal year 2022.

Key Health Care Provisions of the American Rescue Plan Act

On March 11, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) into law.

No Shield Laws for Maryland

Editor's Note: This article has been updated regarding Maryland's temporary State of Emergency in January 2022.

Trademark Licenses Among Affiliates Keep the Brand Strong

Businesses that operate under one overall brand, yet use different corporate entities for each of their locations or divisions, should have intercompany trademark licenses where one entity owns the

Maryland Legal Alert - September 2021

IN THIS ISSUE:MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS CLARIFIES THE MARYLAND CONSUMER DEBT COLLECTION ACT

Folks, Nicole M. Lacoste

Nicole is a Member in the firm’s Real Estate and Energy & Environment practice groups where she focuses on renewable energy projects, commercial real estate projects such as acquisitions, leasi

Master Service Agreements Provide Standard Terms for Ongoing Relationships

A Master Service Agreement (MSA) is a popular format to provide consistent parameters for ongoing relationships between parties.

Eric Abrecht

Eric is a painter who draws his inspiration from landscapes, but he uses his paint to “to develop its subject matter, rather than working from or recreating a specific scene,” according to his webs

Alexander Heilner

Alex is a multidisciplinary artist who uses aerial photography to capture the shifting relationships between “human infrastructure coexisting with our organic surroundings” in national and global l

Elena Cashion

Elena is a full-time, professional artist and illustrator who explores the intersection of contemporary art practices with creative behaviors, or play, in her paintings.

Sue Crawford

Sue is an artist whose experience in painting restoration and conservation has informed her “current art practice in technique, momentum and material.” Her work in a variety of craft and design tra

Raymond W. Lucas

Raymond is a photographer and musician who has been inspired and influenced by his love and appreciation for the “musical performance of jazz, blues and classical music.”

Phaan Howng

Phaan is a multimedia artist whose various landscapes and narratives focus on “the planet thriving in a utopian post-human future, or what I term an ‘optimistic post-apocalypse.’” Through painting,

Mirlande Jean-Gilles

Mirlande is a multimedia artist who has been creating inspiring collages for more than 30 years.

McKinley Wallace III

McKinley is a multimedia artist whose graphic style “incorporates realism, minimalism and hard-edge painting” in a way that tells “stories of power manifested in resilient peoples, determined to re

Lillian Bayley Hoover

Lillian is a painter who explores the “banal, awkward, overlooked or imperfect elements of our material environment.” She uses competing visual languages that interrupt the landscapes and serve as

José Alvarado

José is a painter who seeks to transcend his audience into the sublime through “a higher form of consciousness of the unknown.” Without logic and reason, his works explore how sensation “travels th

Jessie and Katey

Jessie Unterhalter and Katey Truhn — the artist team of Jessie and Katey — have revolutionized public spaces with their large-scale, dynamic murals.

Jay Gould

Jay is a photographer who incorporates computer graphics, drawing, installation, sculpture, video and laser cutting into his narrative about science.

Janet Olney

Janet examines the uncertainty apart from our general awareness through a “personal language of shape and color” in which she “reframes the familiar to reveal an alternate world populated with thin

Erick Antonio Benitez

Erick is a multidisciplinary artist who uses media installation, performance, painting, photography, sound sculpture and video to explore “the overlapping relationships between the personal and mac