March 15, 2022
As per the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website, the PRF Reporting Portal for Period 2 will close after 11:59 PM ET on March 31, [...]
March 15, 2022
On March 15, 2022, President Biden signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 (CAA 2022), Pub. L. No. 117-103, a comprehensive funding bill that extends certain flexibilities that were permitted during the coronavirus [...]
January 27, 2022
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has announced that it is withdrawing its emergency temporary standard (ETS), which required employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workers were either fully [...]
January 20, 2022
On January 13, 2022, a divided United States Supreme Court issued two landmark opinions on vaccination mandates, which may foreshadow the fate of the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children [...]
January 19, 2022
On November 5, 2021, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an Interim Final Rule (IFR) requiring covered facilities, including Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), to develop policies and procedures [...]
January 14, 2022
In a per curiam opinion, a divided United States Supreme Court stayed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard (ETS), thereby rejecting the immediate imposition of a [...]
October 26, 2021
On October 25, 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its technical assistance document, What You Should Know About COVID-19 and the ADA, the Rehabilitation Act, and Other EEO Laws, [...]
September 20, 2021
On September 9, 2021, the Biden Administration released a six-prong COVID-19 Action Plan designed to employ a “science-based approach to vaccinate the unvaccinated, protect the vaccinated, keep schools safely open, increase testing [...]
September 15, 2021
The Biden administration plans to initiate rulemaking requiring all Head Start and Early Head Start teachers and staff to receive COVID-19 vaccination in an effort to allow schools to open safely. The Office [...]
April 6, 2021
The U.S. Department of Education released new policy guidance that will allow colleges and universities to use stimulus funds for a variety of student needs, including cancelling student debt in certain cases. [...]