Health eSource August 2020

    Vol. 16 No. 12  

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    Chair's Column: What A Year

    By John H McEniry IV, Fagron North America, Fairhope, AL

    During the 2018-2019 Bar Year, the Health Law Section focused on the concept of servant leadership. Under the remarkable leadership of Alexandria McCombs, we looked within to assess what motivated us to be leaders in our profession, in our communities, and in the Section. We left that year with a renewed sense of focus and excitement about serving the Section and, by extension, serving others through the work of the Section. The Section had great momentum as we rode that wave of excitement into the 2019-2020 Bar Year.

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    Best Practices to Navigate CARES Act Provider Relief Funding and Minimize False Claims Act Exposure

    By John Libby, Esq. and Kathleen Wise, Esq., Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Allison Orris, Esq., Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, Washington, DC

    The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, Public Law 116-136, signed into law on March 27, 2020 established a “Provider Relief Fund” as part of a larger Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, to be distributed by grants or other payment mechanisms to eligible healthcare providers in order to reimburse providers for healthcare related expenses or lost revenues that are attributable to COVID-19.
    Telehealth Today and in a Post-COVID-19 World

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    Telehealth Today and in a Post-COVID-19 World

    By Kyle Y. Faget, Esq., Foley & Lardner, LLP, Boston, MA

    COVID-19 has been catastrophic in terms of loss of lives and impact on the U.S. economy. The entry of COVID-19 into the United States has been nothing short of a dawning of a new age for telehealth, however. Before the highly contagious, easily transmitted COVID-19 virus came to U.S. shores in early to mid-winter, telehealth had been gaining traction in mainstream medicine, but the practice still had a long way to go before being adopted and utilized ubiquitously.