On January 27, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a national coverage determination (“NCD”) that authorizes Medicare coverage of next-generation sequencing (“NGS”) as a diagnostic laboratory test for ovarian and breast...
Employers often debate whether to use E-Verify—a free, mostly voluntary Web-based tool that allows them to verify the employment authorization of new hires. Just as Apple created a technological solution to the legal problem of rampant online music...
In an evening email that is sure to ruin the weekend for many, CMS announced on February 5, 2020, that it is proposing changes to the Medicare Advantage and Part D Programs for CY 2021 and 2022. CMS will not issue a Call Letter for CY2021. The...
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has released Interim Guidance for Protecting Health Care Workers from Exposure to 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)......
Consistent with its plan announced late last year, this week the Oregon Department of Revenue (“DOR”) issued its second round of temporary administrative rules. This round of temporary rules was essentially a compilation of four draft rules the DOR...
Driven by ever-advancing technologies, today’s multinationals need to quickly adapt to new ways of doing business — a process that can often leave them more vulnerable to risk including tax and transfer pricing, especially since new legislation and...
A recent decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit suggests that petitioners who unsuccessfully challenge patents in an inter partes review (IPR) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) cannot rely on Arthrex—which held that...
Government Suggests that Unusual Pleas are Just the Tip of an Iceberg - Chinese law generally prohibits its citizens from converting more than $50,000 in Chinese yuan into foreign currency in a year. On Monday, two men living in Las Vegas pleaded...
New York Fashion Week (NYFW) officially kicks off today, February 7, 2020, with a week’s worth of captivating runway shows from top designers. The timing, however, could not be worse, since the 92nd Academy Awards is airing on February 9th, dead...
At the end of January the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a final rule establishing the newest version of Form I-9 for employment eligibility verification. While two new countries were added to the online version of the form, the only...
