Kathie McDonald-McClure is a member of the Firm's Health Care Service Team. Her longtime passion for and attention to technology-related matters has given her a leg-up in assisting clients with regard to data privacy and cyber ...
By: Kathie McDonald-McClure
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) changed the Medicare payment policy for COVID-19 vaccines and monoclonal antibody products effective January 1, 2022. According to the CMS MLN Connects News for January 6, 2022, providers who administer COVID-19 vaccinations or monoclonal antibody treatments ...
By: Kathie McDonald-McClure
UKG, Inc., a company that provides payroll support services known as KRONOS for many U.S. companies, began notifying its customers on December 12, 2021, that the KRONOS Private Cloud (KPC) had been attacked by ransomware. The KPC products include Workforce Central, TeleStaff, Healthcare Extensions and Banking ...
By: Kathie McDonald-McClure
Earlier this year, the FDA warned consumers against the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Last week, due to an alarming increase in the number of calls to poison control centers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Health Advisory warning against the use of ivermectin. The CDC Health ...
By. Kathie McDonald-McClure
On August 18, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it was collaborating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop an emergency regulation to require staff at Medicare and Medicaid-participating nursing homes be vaccinated against COVID-19. CMS ...
By: Kathie McDonald-McClure
On May 24, 2021, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) posted a new Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) to the OIG COVID-19 FAQ webpage on the topic of rewarding Federal healthcare program beneficiaries for receiving a COVID-19 vaccination (the “Vaccine”). The question posed was as follows:
Would the offer or ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), on February 9, 2021, issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for combination bamlanivimab and etesevimab monoclonal antibody infusion therapy (“Bamlan/Etesev Antibody Therapy”) for the treatment of mild-to-moderate COVID-19 in adults age 65 and older and pediatric patients (12 years of ...
By Kathie McDonald-McClure
On Wednesday, November 18, 2020, Governor Beshear announced new restrictions aimed at controlling the spread of COVID-19 during a third wave of the disease with the potential for exponential growth due to the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday and the cooler weather that leads to spending more time indoors. As the ...
(NOTE: This article includes updates as of Tuesday, August 4, 2020.)
by Kathie McDonald-McClure, Partner
On January 27, 2020, the White House administration declared a public health emergency (PHE) due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). On March 6, 2020, Governor Beshear declared a state of emergency, making it only the fifth U.S. state to ...