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Navigating Healthcare Workforce Shortages: Evolving Scope-of-Practice and Staffing Regulations

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By Sean Crowe, Rick Rifenbark
| Open Legal Blog Archive
Persistent workforce shortages continue to define the post-pandemic healthcare landscape. Hospitals, health systems, and long-term care providers report enduring deficits in nursing, primary care, and behavioral health staffing, with projections indicating that these shortfalls are likely to persist through the next decade.[1] At both the federal and state levels, policymakers are advancing a range of measures intended to adapt workforce rules to current operational realities.
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The Corporate Transparency Act: A Reporting Guide for Medical Groups and MSOs

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By John Golembesky, Rick Rifenbark, Leonard Lipsky, Jordan Grushkin
| LexBlog
Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) in 2021 with the aim of enhancing transparency in entity structures and ownership as well as combating terrorism, money laundering, and other forms of corporate misconduct. This sweeping new rule is designed to cast a wide net over entities that, except in the case of taxes, do not regularly report to federal agencies (i.e., non-publicly traded entities), regardless of the degree to which they are already regulated at the state level.
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New Marketing Possibilities for Vendors Contracted with Medicare Providers and Suppliers Following OIG’s Favorable Advisory Opinion on Limited Referral Bonuses

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By Rick Rifenbark, Ariana Stobaugh, Kathleen O'Neill
| LexBlog
On December 28, 2023, the Office of Inspector General (the “OIG”) issued a favorable Advisory Opinion (No. 23-15) (the “Opinion”) to a consulting vendor (the “Requestor”) that wanted to provide up to $75 in gift cards to physician practices in exchange for referring the Requestor’s practice optimization services (e.g., workflow and performance assessment, data analytics, and certain Medicare eligibility and performance assistance).
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