Bill of Health

MARCH 22, 2022

The strategies are complex and manifold, but they are necessary if we are to build back, post-COVID, in a way that is truly inclusive. However, this piece of civil rights legislation has been slow to alter public opinion and societal perception.

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C&M Health Law

OCTOBER 18, 2023

HHS is proposing to amend the regulation to clarify the obligations imposed on programs and activities that receive FFA, and to improve consistency with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (the “ADA”), the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (the “ADAAA”), amendments to the Rehabilitation Act, and significant case law.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Supporting this is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), intended to protect the civil rights of persons with disabilities when it comes to areas like employment, government services, public accommodations, transportation, and telecommunications. This is due to prior ADA compliance shortfalls.

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Total HIPAA

MAY 18, 2020

With the onset of COVID-19 , many employers have had to face the possibility of the virus entering the workplace. Normally, under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employers are prohibited from asking employees about symptoms or illnesses they’ve experienced. Exceptions to the ADA.

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Digital Health News

JULY 3, 2023

The author of an Ada Lovelace Institute report into the use and effectiveness of digital technologies during the Covid-19 pandemic discusses the findings.

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Total HIPAA

MAY 10, 2021

What do laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and federal agencies like the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have to say about this? Can an employer require that employees receive a COVID-19 vaccination? Can an employee be fired for refusing a COVID-19 vaccination?

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Bill of Health

MARCH 17, 2022

Often seen as a last-step workplace accommodation, some suggest that remote work could be reasonably inferred to be an accommodation under the ADA. The normalization of remote work has enabled many people with disabilities to be meaningfully included in workplace culture for perhaps the first time.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 29, 2022

Long COVID exposes an often-unacknowledged facet of disability: that one is far more likely to develop a disability than be born with one. The upswell of advocacy and awareness around Long COVID should be mobilized to call attention to and address the challenges faced by newly-disabled adults, particularly with respect to employment.

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Med-Net Compliance

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

At the trial, the EEOC claimed the nursing home discriminated against the former employee in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it fired her from a laundry technician position, despite her ability to do the job, because the facility regarded her as having a physical or mental impairment.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

The applicant was qualified for the position and could perform the essential duties of the job, which included greeting visitors, communicating COVID-19 masking standards and policies, giving directions, and keeping the area tidy and welcoming. The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination.

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Total HIPAA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Secure Remote Work During COVID-19. The two discussed security practices to use while working remotely during COVID-19. HIPAA Waiver: How COVID-19 Impacts HIPAA Compliance. What Should an Employer Do if an Employee Tests Positive for COVID-19? COVID-19 HIPAA Compliance Checklist.

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Florida Health Care Law Firm

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Despite two years of COVID and a year’s worth of vaccinations, there remains some confusion over the privacy of an employee’s vaccination status. However, it surprises me when I hear people who work outside the health care arena claim HIPAA protection over all kinds of information – and most recently, their COVID-19 vaccination status.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 8, 2022

Workplaces are, by and large, no longer safe for employees who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19. During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was common for workplaces to require masks, at least in shared spaces. Unfortunately, the ADA does not reach every workplace.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Remote accommodations were granted freely during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in 2021, the in-person aspect of teaching and learning was suddenly deemed essential, and at many institutions, remote classes came to an end. That same medication rendered him high-risk for severe illness or death from COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Telehealth, which suddenly became a necessity when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, simultaneously opened doors and erected more barriers. Many don’t know English, many are undocumented, and many hold down multiple jobs but have few financial assets to fall back on in an emergency.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 1, 2022

One of the most persistently frustrating aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as currently applied to schools and workplaces, is its emphasis on the eligibility of qualifying individuals for accommodation, rather than on population-based removal of barriers to participation. By Jennifer Bard.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Sin embargo, funcionarios federales dicen que están aumentando las quejas de personas mayores engañadas para que compren pólizas sin su consentimiento, o atraídas por información cuestionable, que pueden no cubrir sus medicamentos ni incluir a sus médicos.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 23, 2022

The silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it has opened the door to new opportunities to improve our society. The workplace accommodations gained during COVID-19 are nothing new to the community of workers with disabilities; some workers had already been approved to work at home prior to the pandemic. By Scott J.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The researchers found that one app, Ada, was comparable to the providers when it came to including the gold-standard diagnosis among its top three and top five suggestions. Ada, Babylon and Symptomate also had the highest performance when it came to safe advice regarding the next steps a patient should take.

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2023

The Legal Right to Masked Health Care Providers Both the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504) bar covered health care facilities and providers from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities on the basis of disability in the provision of benefits and services.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Negotiating Masks in the Workplace: When the ADA Does and Does Not Apply. Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic. What Macrodosing Can Learn from Microdosing. The Mask-Optional DEI Initiative. A Timeline of Biden’s Pandemic Response, Part 3: We Have the Tools (Sept. –

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers either incentivized or required employees and customers to be vaccinated and/or masked even in the absence of federal and state mandates. In the future, they may frequently take the lead in implementing public health measures.

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Health Law RX

JULY 25, 2022

Employers who are conducting automatic COVID-19 testing of employees or gathering test results of employees’ families should beware: the Equal Employ­ment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) has issued new guidance limiting the former and has penalized a healthcare practice recently for doing the latter. Returning to Work After COVID-19.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

By Matt Dowell. Recently, I remotely attended a mask-optional, in-person meeting where campus leaders proudly proclaimed that DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) is my college’s “top priority.”

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This essay describes the cost of casting aside what is best for the public’s health in favor of individual choice, especially to those who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19. The patient could call a hospital before their arrival and ask for an ADA-based modification to the hospital’s mask-optional rule.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 14, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the incoherence of the Republican party’s employment agenda, which, on the one hand, deifies full, in-person employment, and, on the other, makes the workplace hostile to this aim through relentless deregulation. By Doron Dorfman.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 19, 2022

Like plaintiffs with other conditions lacking definitive physiological markers, long COVID plaintiffs seeking disability anti-discrimination law protections have confronted courts suspicious of their reports of symptoms and insistent on medical evidence in order for them to qualify as “disabled” and entitled to statutory protection.

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AIHC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Written By: Compliance Blogger This article addresses COVID testing and consent considerations for: healthcare organizations, nursing homes and business associates or non-healthcare workplaces. SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) continues to be a health risk to be mitigated by health care institutions and at the workplace.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 6, 2022

EBG Law Clerk Jack Ferdman and the following 2022 EBG Summer Associates provided research and drafting support: Nija Chappel, Madeline Dwivedi, Annie Lucatuorto, Diego Perea, Ada Peters, and Kyla Portnoy. For example, some states’ Medicaid programs now provide coverage for certain services supplied through audio-only modalities.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

COVID-19 will be with us — in our society and in our brains — for the foreseeable future. This symposium contribution focuses specifically on COVID’s lasting effects in our brains, about which much is still unknown. What does COVID infection do to our brains? By Emily R.D.

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AIHC

AUGUST 13, 2024

Addressing Current Health Care Challenges Response to Emerging Issues : Adapt the regulations to address current challenges, including those highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Guidance for Compliance : Provide resources and guidance to help entities comply with the updated regulations.

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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

DISCLOSING COVID-19 VACCINATION STATUS. HHS has published an article on the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s effect on the disclosure of COVID-19 vaccination status for healthcare. Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule prohibit businesses or individuals from asking whether their customers or clients have received a COVID-19 vaccine?

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Total Medical ComplianceHIPAA

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

DISCLOSING COVID-19 VACCINATION STATUS. HHS has published an article on the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s effect on the disclosure of COVID-19 vaccination status for healthcare. Does the HIPAA Privacy Rule prohibit businesses or individuals from asking whether their customers or clients have received a COVID-19 vaccine?

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Some have suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic could be a moment of what critical race theorist Derrick Bell called “ interest convergence ,” where majority interests align with those of a minority group to create a critical moment for social change. Why Haven’t Interests Converged During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Legislators want to know why Lawsuit: Minnesota’s free training hurt nursing assistant schools A group of Minnesotans are suing local hospitals after losing loved ones to COVID-19 Minnesota Cuts the Ribbon on Dynamic New Clinic MISSISSIPPI Everyone you know sick? system turns profit for 1st time in 4 years Mass. NORTH DAKOTA N.D.

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Nursing Homes US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Nurses 40

Hall Render

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Southwest Michigan medical school appoints interim dean West Michigan Air Care to end helicopter patient transport service in April Employees instigated stomping attack on boy, 10, at Michigan-run hospital, lawsuit contends West Michigan Health Care Economic Forecast reveals low mental health in Michigan COVID-positive?

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

headcount among top 10 biopharma employers shrinks New Mass. acquisition of California stroke prevention device maker Bridging the gap: Joint Open Sky-Seven Hills program is boosting BIPOC representation in the mental health field Cambridge biotech’s deal with Novo Nordisk worth up to $530M CVS offering birth control at Mass.

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