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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Bill Dombi, former president and CEO of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice, has joined law firm Arnall Golden Gregory LLP. Dombi will serve as senior counsel in the firms Washington, D.C.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Angelo Spinola, home health, home care and hospice chair at the Polsinelli law firm headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, was involved in the case and told HHCN he thought the attorney general was incorrect in his position. Furthermore, this is part of a larger and evolving issue being scrutinized by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.”

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Alleged Misuse of Data One example cited in the dispute involves a business called Integritort, which claimed to be treating patients while actually gathering medical records on behalf of personal injury law firms for potential class action lawsuits.

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For this episode of Disrupt, Home Health Care News sat down with Matt Wolfe, a shareholder at the law firm Baker Donelson, to chat about the most important legal trends for home health agencies to pay attention to heading into 2023. The 63rd episode of our podcast, Disrupt, is now available!

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JULY 24, 2022

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MAY 14, 2024

Some law firms have certainly done a number of educational programs around this, and we’ve brought it up in some of our webinars and put it in our newsletter, but when I look at our online communities, we’re not seeing much [reaction],” Dombi said.

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Bill Of Health

MARCH 1, 2022

Another strategy these clubs take is to invite established patent-focused law firms to give mini, topic-specific workshops. These resources are excellent, but come with the trade-off as serving the law firms as potential recruitment tools for soon-to-be graduated students to work at the law firm.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

“What I have seen over the years, and continue to beat the drum on, is when we act as an industry in a collective manner, it’s really loud,” Angelo Spinola, the chair of home care, home health and hospice at the law firm Polsinelli, said during a HCP’s Growth Summit last week. It’s such a large industry and there are so many voices.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It certainly seems like it’s set up backward,” Angelo Spinola, the home health, home care, and hospice chair at the law firm Polsinelli, told Home Health Care News in July. However, experts in the home-based care space have worried before that the wage increase could have adverse effects on providers. “It

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Home Health Care

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In these cases, the challengers often mischaracterize what CON laws do, what they represent and how they actually function,” Matt Wolfe, a shareholder at the law firm Baker Donelson, told HHCN in an email. They failed to convince the court, however. “In

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Several states have regulatory requirements for screening caregivers who provide in-home services,” Angelo Spinola, home health, home care and hospice chair at the law firm Polsinelli, told Home Health Care News. Florida, for example, requires a level-two background screening at hire and every five years.”

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The impact of PDGM was largely muted last year because of the Provider Relief Funds or the [Medicare advanced payments],” Ross Sallade, a shareholder at law firm Polsinelli, said during the webinar. “It For some struggling providers, COVID-19 relief measures delayed the desire to merge or sell their business.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 30, 2023

agencies in southern states have become a key area of focus, Angelo Spinola, the home health, home care and hospice chair at the law firm Polsinelli, said last week during a presentation at the Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) national conference. Though the DOL has its eyes on providers operating across the U.S,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Parkland also partnered with Cadillac, CIBC (the bank), and Dentons (a law firm). The contest was sponsored by Electric Autonomy Canada partnering with Parkland, one of The Americas’ largest independent supplier and marketer of fuel and petroleum products and a leading convenience store chain.

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Home Health Care

JULY 20, 2023

It certainly seems like it’s set up backward,” Angelo Spinola, the home health, home care, and hospice chair at the law firm Polsinelli, told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 22, 2024

We work with some AI providers that are using audio monitoring,” Angelo Spinola, the home health, home care and hospice chair at the Polsinelli law firm, told HHCN. Some privacy laws are triggered, sometimes at a state level, that require consents and notices.

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Home Health Care

MAY 25, 2023

This is certainly one of the biggest provisions, and it’s safe to say, the most controversial provision,” Matt Wolfe, office managing shareholder at law firm Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz P.C., said during a Home Care Association of America webinar on Thursday.

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Home Health Care

JUNE 9, 2023

Matt Wolfe, office managing shareholder at the law firm Baker Donelson, wrote in an email to Home Health Care News that although the study does not measure actual fraud, it does provide some interesting insights into how purported “fraud” occurs in home health.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The second phase, due diligence and execution, is typically when legal counsel gets involved, Donna Ruzicka, a shareholder at Polsinelli, noted during a webinar hosted by the law firm on Thursday. Diligence is a long process, and it’s good to have that mindset when you go into it,” she said during the presentation.

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Home Health Care

DECEMBER 20, 2022

If a provider receives funding under the Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, Veterans Health Administration or Indian Health Services, they are subject to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law and the Civil Monetary Penalties Statutes. Before that, he was a criminal prosecutor at the Department of Justice.

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Home Health Care

MAY 22, 2022

Some of the organizations offering Homethrive as a benefit include the Michigan Manufacturers Association, law firm McDermott Will & Emery and health-tech startup emids. Private wealth management firm Rockefeller Capital Management is another enterprise client. “A Homethrive is currently available across the U.S.

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CHQ Healthcare

JANUARY 27, 2022

Companies rated in the CEI include Fortune magazine’s 500 largest publicly traded businesses, American Lawyer magazine’s top 200 revenue-grossing law firms (AmLaw 200), and hundreds of publicly and privately held mid- to large-sized businesses. The CEI rates employers providing these crucial protections to over 20 million U.S.

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“Determining joint employment status now hinges on meeting this economic realities test,” Angelo Spinola, the co-chair of the home health and home care industry group at the law firm Polsinelli, recently told Home Health Care News.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 4, 2024

He was also a corporate and privacy law partner at one of Canada’s leading law firms. In Canada for AZ, he led integrated health solutions, pricing, market access, reimbursement, communications, strategic stakeholder engagement, and legal affairs.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 25, 2024

“We don’t want this kind of third party interference between employers and employees, but there’s a tension that’s happening in this system,” Denise Delcore, then a part of the law firm Polsinelli, said in 2022. Home care providers have had greater challenges than we’ve ever seen before.

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Home Health Care

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

My view on live-in and extended shift … is that the issue you have is setting it up the right way,” Angelo Spinola, home health, home care and hospice chair at the law firm Polsinelli, said Thursday during a webinar presentation. “If

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

workers appears to be a losing battle, Carlos Ortiz, a shareholder with the law firm Polsinelli, said. Apart from understanding how to better recruit and retain caregivers, it’s also important for providers to stay up to date on immigration policies that will undoubtedly affect the home-based care space.

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Home Health Care

OCTOBER 30, 2022

All home care and home health agencies should keep a close eye on the rule, Angelo Spinola, the co-chair of the home health and home care industry group at the law firm Polsinelli, told HHCN.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 23, 2023

CMS seems to think there are too many of us and we’re making too much money,” Robert Markette, an attorney with the law firm Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, said during an Axxess panel. “If If you look at the data they’re relying upon, we’ve somewhat done that to ourselves with cost reporting.

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Home Health Care

MARCH 15, 2024

“It’s not just the vendors that you contract with or the vendors you have relationships with,” Bruce Radke, a member of the tech transactions and data privacy team at the health care law firm Polsinelli, said during a webinar Thursday. It’s the vendor that you have to be concerned about.

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Home Health Care

JULY 3, 2023

Holland & Knight is a Miami-based law firm that provides representation in litigation, business, real estate, governmental and health care law. David Marks, a partner at Holland & Knight, noted that it’s not uncommon to see an LOI with a 90- to 120-day ask. “I’d

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Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

“You have one arm of the government that is promoting these kinds of programs that are looking for these 1099 and alternative models to provide coverage at a lower cost,” Angelo Spinola, the co-chair of the home health and home care at the law firm Polsinelli, told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 23, 2024

law firms that have done independent analyses of the proposed rule,” Damon Terzaghi, the director of Medicaid advocacy at NAHC, told HHCN. Challenges will likely come from states themselves, as the 80-20 provision is creating a level of micromanaging between CMS and state Medicaid programs that hasn’t existed before.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2022

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Home Health Care

MAY 26, 2023

In some areas, it will be important for providers to increase their advocacy efforts, like when it comes to a potential ban on non-competes, Angelo Spinola, the chair of home care, home health and hospice at the law firm Polsinelli, told Home Health Care News.

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Home Health Care

AUGUST 16, 2021

For sellers looking to strike a deal, it’s important to understand which of these are a better fit, according to Alan Schabes, a partner at law firm Benesch Healthcare+. “I I always ask a potential seller, ‘What do you want to do the day after the closing?” Schabes said during the NAHC event.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Emily Rock is the Medical-Legal Partnership Fellow at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy; she previously practiced at a plaintiffs’ law firm and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School. .

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