On Friday, November 5, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a comprehensive interim final rule, the Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination rule.
Former Senator and Arent Fox Counsel Doug Jones and former National Security Adviser and Arent Fox Counsel Cissy Jackson discuss the Anti-Money Laundering Act and what businesses should keep in mind moving forward.
On November 2, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposed rule involving three separate actions aimed at establishing a comprehensive and more stringent regulatory regime to reduce emissions from oil and gas operations across the United States (the Proposed Rules).
On October 29, 2021, the FDA issued two Guidances that implement a new requirement of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) that all registrants of drug establishments – both domestic and foreign – must file a report on the amount of each listed drug produced over the preceding year.
On November 4, 2021, CMS issued its Omnibus Staff Vaccination Rule, mandating that all Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities regulated under Medicare health and safety standards require that their employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 4, 2022.
On November 4, 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued its long-awaited emergency temporary standard (ETS) mandating that large employers require employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or obtain weekly tests and wear face coverings in the workplace.
On Thursday, November 4, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published an emergency temporary standard (ETS) making good on President Biden’s pledge to require private employers with 100 or more employees to implement vaccination-or-testing mandates for their employees.
On November 2, 2021, CMS published the 2022 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule that addressed its previously-proposed penalties for hospital non-compliance with price reporting requirements.
Snidely Whiplash kidnaps Nell and, in the show’s opening, ties her to the railroad tracks to get even with his nemesis, Dudley Do-Right, of the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Menacing music plays.
On October 31, 2021, the Department of Commerce and the Office of the US Trade Representative announced an agreement with the European Union (EU) to remove the 25% additional tariffs on steel and 10% additional tariffs on aluminum pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
A recent announcement by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) got the immediate attention of companies that manufacture, process, or import finished products for sale and use by consumer, commercial, and industrial customers.
CMS published the 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule on November 2, 2021. The Rule keeps intact CMS’s temporary physician supervision requirements related to the provision of telehealth services.
The Department of Justice recently announced a new initiative that aims to hold government contractors accountable when they fail to meet required cybersecurity standards.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently made several announcements regarding its goals for investigating, regulating, and remediating Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), a group of chemicals used in a variety of consumer and industrial products since the early 1940s.