CMS Makes Initial Distribution from CARES Act Provider Relief Fund
If you are a health care provider, you may have received a direct deposit identified as “HHSPAYMENT” into your business bank account in the past week. The funds are being disbursed in order to provide financial assistance to health care providers that have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The funds distributed to providers are […]
Medicare and the 2020 Election
Now that the campaign for President appears to be down to two candidates, we need to address the health care questions that both will face. In this blog, we will talk about Medicare and in a later blog, we will talk about the public option. A question which has faced not just these two individuals, […]
Governor’s Executive Order 112 Gives Civil Immunity To Healthcare Facilities and Limited Group of Practitioners
Below is a summary of the Executive Order 112, which was issued in an effort to expand the capacity of NJ’s healthcare by (i) waiving certain requirements to allow retired and foreign physicians to become temporarily licensed in NJ; (ii) removing certain limits on the scope of practice for Advanced Practice Nurses and Physician Assistants, […]
Governor Murphy Issues Executive Order Mandating Legal Immunity for Healthcare Workers
Governor Murphy’s new executive order mandates legal immunity for healthcare workers providing services during COVID-19 crisis. Issued on Wednesday April, 1st, this is no April Fools’ joke, as Governor Murphy has provided for legal immunity for healthcare workers to provide medical services during this COVID-19 crisis that may be outside of the normal “scope of […]