A January 29 article in Bloomberg BNA's Health Care Daily Report, "Is Artificial Intelligence Ready for Health-Care Prime Time?," discussed the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) ...

A new mandate under the Federal Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility Act (NOTICE Act), passed on August 6, 2015, went into effect on March 8.

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.

Two new bills introduced by Assemblywoman Nancy Munoz for review by the New Jersey State Assembly's Health and Senior Services Committee would give registered nurses more autonomy in prescribing medications.

There has been a recent groundswell of support for modifying or eliminating the federal physician self-referral law, commonly known as the Stark Law. Last month's Request for Information by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, ...

Under the program's current rules, these ACOs will be required to move to a two-sided (risk-bearing) model in their third agreement period that begins in 2019.

After years of litigation and court orders directing the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) to adopt new rules, on April 30, COAH released its latest iteration of Third Round affordable housing regulations.

On March 1, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to propose amendments to Rule 15c2-12.

On September 7, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed a bill amending New York’s Wage Deduction Law.

On April 20, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG), in collaboration with the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors, the American Health Lawyers Association and the Health Care Compliance Association, published a new guidance document for governing boards of healthcare organizations on their obligations concerning compliance oversight.

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy recently signed into law Public Act No. 16-205, "An Act Concerning Standards and Requirements for Health Carriers' Provider Networks and Contracts Between Health Carriers and Participating Providers."

In "Cushman v. Folan", Case No. 09-P-894, 2010 Mass. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1135 (Oct. 19, 2010), a decision issued pursuant to Rule 1:28, the Appeals Court addressed the procedural question of whether an appeal of a fees award in probate court was properly dismissed with respect to one of the appellants ("Cushman") for her failure to post a bond to secure the judgment, as ordered by the probate court.

One problem for telemedicine, Eric observed, is that the different arms of the HHS aren't coordinating with one another.

An August 17 article in Bloomberg BNA's Privacy Law Watch and other publications, "Wellmark's Iowa ACA Exchange Exit Prompts Civil Rights Complaint," discussed an administrative complaint filed with the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) by three groups representing hemophiliacs. Day Pitney's Eric Fader was quoted in the article.

Engineers at the Institute of Nanotechnology at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul Korea are working on converting background noise, music and voice calls from a cell phone into electricity.

At the risk of oversimplification, individuals looking to change domicile to another state must sever as many ties as possible with their current state to demonstrate that they have abandoned the current state.

U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied the motions to suppress filed by Sebastian Pinto-Thomaz and Jeremy Millul in their prosecution...

In Timbs v. Indiana, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to the states.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ("USCIS") reports that as of January 26, 2011, it had reached the cap on new H-1B petitions for fiscal year 2011 and will reject any petitions it receives after that date.

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.