In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, where the justices struck down the use of affirmative action as part of the admissions process at...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has been busy in recent weeks, launching an “investigative sweep” into employer compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and cautioning employers about the restrictions on...
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has adopted a new standard for evaluating challenges to employer work rules as facially unlawful under Section 8(a)(1) of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), overruling a decision from 2017.
At 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, May 11, 2023, the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration will conclude, more than three years after taking effect in January 2020.
On May 3, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a statement from Administrator Anne Milgram on COVID-19 telemedicine flexibilities for prescribing controlled substances in which the DEA noted that it has “decided to extend the...
The United States Food and Drug Administration published a notice in the Federal Register on March 13, 2023, addressing the agency’s various COVID-19-related guidance documents issued by all of the medical product centers.
In December 2022, Oregon became the first state since New York (2015) and Minnesota (2016) to put forth a plan to seek federal approval for implementation of a basic health program under Section 1331 of the Affordable Care Act for...
The Biden Administration has announced that May 11, 2023, will be the final day of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration, which has been in effect since January 2020.
During the COVID-19 public health emergency, states implemented numerous Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program policies and operational processes that helped to maintain coverage and support access to needed physical and...
To benefit fully from America’s health care system, people need both timely access to health care services and comprehensive health coverage to defray the cost of those services.