A New York federal judge has refused to dismiss a putative class action alleging that Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company engaged in alienage discrimination when it rejected a Mexican-born applicant for an internship position because he was neither a U.S. citizen nor a legal permanent resident, even though he was legally authorized to work in the United States.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has postponed the effective date of its final rule requiring employers to notify employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act, until April 30, 2012.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to the 11th Circuit’s decision that the Labor Management Relations Act may prevent employers from entering into agreements to remain neutral during union organizing campaigns.

On March 27, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new program called the "Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge" (AI Challenge)

Day Pitney healthcare attorney Eric Fader was quoted in an April 22 article, "N.C. Clinic Pays $750,000 to Settle Alleged HIPAA Violations," in Bloomberg BNA's Health Care Daily Report.

Eric Fader was quoted in a September 14 article, "Republicans Seek Probe Into EpiPen Medicaid Rebate Status," in Bloomberg BNA's Health Care Daily Report.

In a series of private letter rulings issued during the last several years, the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") approved programs allowing defined benefit plan sponsors to offer retirees in pay status the ability to convert existing annuity forms of payment into lump sums.

On October 17, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that its Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative generated a total of $57.7 million in gross savings in Medicare Part A and Part B expenditures in its second performance year.

On June 26, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced numerous initiatives to reduce fraud and waste in the Medicaid program.

On November 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it published a final rule (CMS-5524-F and IFC) officially canceling mandatory hip fracture and cardiac bundled payment models, as well as the Episode Payment Models and Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive Payment Model that were due to go into effect on January 1, 2018.

Massachusetts-based electronic health records (EHR) vendor eClinicalWorks (ECW) and several of its employees will pay nearly $155 million to settle allegations that it violated federal law...

On August 5, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new guidance for states and Medicaid managed care programs to update their two-phase Medicaid drug utilization review programs to screen drug...

On October 14, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidance entitled "Software as a Medical Device (SaMD): Clinical Evaluation" and invited interested parties to submit comments for consideration in the final version.

FDA Releases Long-Awaited Off-Label Guidance.

On June 2, the Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force released its 96-page final "Report on Improving Cybersecurity in the Health Care Industry".

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act added Section 4960 to the Internal Revenue Code, which imposes an excise tax on remuneration paid to certain highly compensated employees of tax-exempt organizations.

Day Pitney's Michael Furey was quoted in an article, "The Valley Hospital, Holy Name Medical Center win right to see report on tiered insurance plan," in The Record.

On January 18, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a fact sheet announcing a broad array of Medicare Advantage (MA) health plan innovations that will be tested

On May 30, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law the Health Insurance Market Preservation Act, making New Jersey the second state to adopt an individual health insurance mandate. Massachusetts' mandate has been in effect since 2006.

A November 8 article in Bloomberg BNA's Health Care Daily Report and other publications, "Health Privacy Official's Departure Unlikely to Rock the Boat," discussed whether last month's departure of Deven McGraw, deputy director for health information privacy for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR), will have an effect on the government's enforcement of health-data privacy laws. Day Pitney's Eric Fader was quoted in the article.