In March of last year, FCC agents from the Enforcement Bureau's Detroit Office visited the studios of WEK, Williamsburg, Kentucky.

Last week, the Senate Appropriations Committee agreed on a largely bipartisan voted to spending targets for the fiscal year 2013 appropriations that are the same as the spending targets in the last summer’s debt deal.

On November 10, 2011, the Philadelphia office of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP hosted its 5th annual roundtable discussion entitled "The State of the Debt Markets in Private Equity Transactions – How to Leverage Returns for Your Investors."

The Department of Health and Human Services has released an omnibus rule making changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act regulations related to privacy and security.

Health care providers are facing the most dynamic and uncertain regulatory, legislative and fiscal environment in more than a generation. Increasingly, hospitals and health systems need to develop and maintain comprehensive government relations programs that address their site-specific or system-specific concerns.

The Republican National Convention kicks off this Monday in Tampa Bay, Florida, as the Republicans convene to officially nominate former Gov. Mitt Romney as their party’s candidate for President of the United States.

A discussion on what should plan sponsors do about benefits offered to registered domestic partners in light of the Supreme Court’s Defense of Marriage Act ruling.

Last month in Echostar Technologies, L.L.C., 2012 NLRB LEXIS 627 (2012), an NLRB Administrative Law Judge adopted the Acting General Counsel’s rules regarding social media policies.

What do plan fiduciaries need to know about revenue sharing?

The U.S. Supreme Court, in an 8-0 decision, ruled that severance payments made to employees who are involuntarily terminated are taxable wages.

Late Friday, April 26, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its proposed rule for the hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and long term care hospital (LTCH) PPS for fiscal year (FY) 2014 (which begins October 1, 2013).

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently released a proposed rule implementing payment and other policy changes to the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System.

Last week the Congress passed a short-term "patch" to prevent scheduled cuts from going into effect for physicians who provide care to Medicare beneficiaries.

The Energy and Commerce and Ways & Means Committees released a document providing more information on their plans to repeal and replace the Medicare SGR formula.

The Senate Appropriations Committee recently approved their 302(b) allocations for the fiscal year 2014 budget.

The government may be back up and running and funded under a short-term continuing resolution (CR), but the battle is far from over as Congress heads toward new deadlines to address budgetary matters.

Although Congress’ August recess is a little more than halfway over, there is still time to reach out to your Members of Congress while they are at home in the state.

On Wednesday the House passed two additional limited funding bills – the 11th and 12th such piecemeal funding bills. H.J.Res 90 provides continued funding for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

On August 8, 2013, the Executive Life Insurance Company of New York Restructuring Agreement closed, following the denial of the last relevant appeal of the trial court’s Order of Liquidation and Approval of the Restructuring Agreement in May 2013.

The U.S. DOS’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls confirmed that they have suspended the issuance of licenses for controlled exports destined for Russia.