04.12.21
Section 9817 of the American Rescue Plan provides states with a one-year, 10 percentage point increase in their federal medical assistance percentage for state Medicaid expenditures for HCBS.
On April 7, 2021, in response to public comments, the California DFPI issued redlined modifications to its proposed regulations for SB 1235, a groundbreaking law requiring consumer-like disclosures for certain types of commercial financing.
On April 7, several days past its statutory deadline of April 1, the state Legislature completed its negotiations with the Governor and passed the final pieces of legislation to complete the state fiscal year 2021–22 New York State Budget.
On April 6, 2021, Governor Newsom announced that the state will eliminate the Blueprint tiers and reopen its economy on June 15.
CMS has approved DHCS’s application requesting the authority to reimburse for vaccine administration for all covered Medi-Cal populations exclusively through the fee-for-service delivery system and carved out from all managed care contracts, effective November 2, 2020.
The state has reached an agreement with Alameda and Contra Costa counties to continue operating the Oakland Coliseum Mass Vaccination Site for the next four weeks. The site is expected to deliver 6,000 vaccines per day.
04.08.21
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) is once again at the center of a major political debate, with momentum building for an overhaul of the statute that many view as having served a critical role in the rise of big tech and social media.
In recent years, state lawmakers have been considering and/or implementing policies to increase affordability for state consumers in the individual market.
04.06.21
In Network-1 Technologies, Inc. v. Hewlett-Packard Co., the Federal Circuit held the claim term “main power source” was interpreted to include both AC and DC power sources, especially where specification never described that a DC power source was an essential feature of the main power ...
On April 1, 2021, the Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in Facebook v. Duguid, resolving a long-standing circuit split on the definition of an automatic telephone dialing system under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.