The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG), issued a favorable Advisory Opinion (25-02) regarding a federally qualified health center’s (FQHC) proposal to offer to schedule primary care physician appointments for certain individuals who are already receiving non-medical help from the FQHC.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) extended the previous deadline of May 1, 2025 to August 1, 2025, for skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to provide ownership and management information as well as information about other parties with which the SNFs are associated and the ownership structures of those parties.
On April 7, 2025, a federal judge struck down the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) federal nursing home Minimum Staffing Mandate implemented in May 2024 (Final Rule). Aimed at improving quality of care, the Final Rule required 3.48 hours per resident day of patient care, but most notably required that nursing homes have a Registered Nurse (RN) on site 24/7.
Following months of uncertainty surrounding the future of the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published an interim final rule (Interim Rule) on March 21, 2025 that removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to submit BOI reports to FinCEN under the CTA.
In March, the New York Department of Health (DOH) published “frequently asked questions” (FAQs) related to the law that requires “health care entities” party to a “material transaction” to report the transaction to the DOH in advance.