The 2021 Maryland Legislative Session established a host of new requirements that will impact health care providers and insurers in the State. Here are summaries of some of the new legislation.
1. The Maryland Health Care Commission (HCC) now offers a virtual Telehealth Readiness Assessment tool, which takes about 20 minutes to complete, for small practices to determine t
In the latest effort to improve transparency in health care costs, Congress passed the “No Surprises Act” (the Act) in December 2020 to protect patients from receiving large, unanticipated bills fo
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.
On January 13, 2021, former President Trump signed into law the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2020 (CHIRA), which repeals the McCarran Ferguson Act’s federal antitrust exemption for he
Purposefully misusing information obtained via a computer does not violate a key federal statute, so long as the information was obtained by someone with proper authority to access the information,
Gordon Feinblatt LLC is pleased to announce that our firm was ranked by Chambers & Partners in the 2021 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Busine
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, in October 2020, India and South Africa proposed to the World Trade Organization (WTO) a waiver of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIP
Although most lease rejections in bankruptcy arise in the context of bankruptcies of tenants, when a landlord files for bankruptcy, the landlord can elect to assume or reject a lease.
When the first sentence of an opinion of the Court of Special Appeals (CSA) concerning the location of property misspells the Baltimore neighborhood of “Hampden” as “Hamden,” you know there is a pr
It seems that Robert Frost’s adage “Good fences make good neighbors” needs to be updated, at least for neighbors who own adjoining panhandle lots with narrow strips that extend to a public road.
Wanda and Nathaniel Daughtry borrowed $918,900 from Liberty Mortgage Corporation to refinance their house in Prince George’s County in 2007. In 2012, they defaulted on their loan.
