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Kevin focuses his practice on healthcare regulatory and compliance issues, as well as healthcare fraud and abuse. After graduating from the nation’s top health law school, he served as a legal services fellow with BJC HealthCare, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States. The highly selective program gave him the opportunity to see healthcare law in practice from a variety of angles, including labor and employment, risk management, physician contracting, real estate, and Medicare reimbursement and compliance.

CMS has issued a new rule clarifying that its daily Covid-19 reporting via the HHS Teletracking portal is mandatory as a condition of participation in the Medicare program. 42 C.F.R. § 482.42. HHS’s FAQ detailing the hospital reporting requirements can be found here – https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-faqs-hospitals-hospital-laboratory-acute-care-facility-data-reporting.pdf.  Failure to consistently report throughout the Public Health Emergency