The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission promulgated new regulations on the issue of how to define “disability” under the Americans with … Read More “Redefining the Concept of a Disabled Employee under the ADA”
On Tuesday, the United States Senate voted 87–12 to repeal a controversial tax-reporting measure included in last year’s healthcare law, … Read More “Senate Passes 1099 Reporting Repeal; Shortfall to Be Addressed by Repayment of Health Care Insurance Tax Credit”
In December 2010, Governor David A. Patterson signed the Wage Theft Prevention Act into law. The Act is significant because … Read More “Wage Theft Prevention Act Takes Effect April 9, 2011”
On March 18, 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued new federal regulations implementing Section 6111 of … Read More “CMS Issues Final Rule on Civil Money Penalties for Nursing Homes”
On March 31, 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed much-anticipated rules under the Patient Protection and … Read More “CMS Proposes Rules for New ACOs”
On March 18, 2011, Commissioner of Health, Nirav R. Shah, M.D., M.P.H., announced that the Health Department would begin the … Read More “NYS Department of Health Announces Plan to Add Community First Choice Option to State Medicaid Plan”
Jeffrey J. Sherrin, Kurt E. Bratten and Charles C. Dunham, IV, will be speaking at the American Association of Bioanalysts‘ … Read More “O&A Attorneys to Speak at the 2011 AAB Annual Meeting”
Several years ago, O’Connell and Aronowitz formed a Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Unit as an adjunct to its well-established health … Read More “O&A’s Expanding Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Unit”
O’Connell and Aronowitz continues its rapid growth to its health care and criminal law practices with the addition of Richard … Read More “Our Health Law Team Is Pleased to Welcome Richard Harrow to O’Connell and Aronowitz”
On March 14, 2011, five attorneys of the O’Connell and Aronowitz law firm presented at the annual conference of the New … Read More “O&A Attorneys Present at NYCQAL Annual Conference”