Biden offers last word on COVID-19 vaccination mandates
By
Liza Berger
Sep 10, 2021
With COVID-19 rates worsening, the fall season projected to be severe and many workers still relentlessly reluctant to get vaccinated, a universal vaccination mandate, the administration felt, had to be...
A restart to life — in fits and starts
By
Liza Berger
Mar 12, 2021
If the new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services guidance to vaccinated people in non-healthcare settings is intended to be a nudge, it appears that the federal government still has work to do.
Citing staffing concerns, 2 governors ask for ‘relief’ from CMS vaccine mandate
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 02, 2022
Republican governors Jim Justice of West Virginia and Glenn Youngkin of Virginia requested “relief” Monday in the form of broader exemptions from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ vaccine...
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about two federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates on Jan. 7, the court announced Wednesday night.
EEOC: Employers must accommodate religious objections to COVID vaccine mandates
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 27, 2021
Employers with COVID-19 vaccine mandates must accommodate workers’ “sincerely held religious beliefs, practices and observances” against such requirements unless doing so would create an “undue...
3 more states join lawsuit challenging CMS COVID-19 vaccine mandate
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 29, 2021
Attorneys general in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio joined more than a dozen states last week in challenging the legality of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ mandate of COVID-19 vaccines for...
Biden administration asks Supreme Court for stay from injunctions against CMS vaccine mandate
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 20, 2021
As lawsuits mount from multiple states, the Biden administration asked the Supreme Court Thursday to reinstate nationwide the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ emergency regulation mandating...
CMS to provide additional payments for at-home COVID-19 vaccinations
By
Liza Berger
Aug 24, 2021
In an effort to sweeten the pot on COVID-19 vaccinations, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Tuesday it is providing additional payments to healthcare providers who administer doses to multiple...
COVID cases rise among nursing home staff, NIC says; AMDA releases new guidance
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 19, 2022
Weekly COVID-19 cases among skilled nursing home staff members and residents set new records earlier this month, according to the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care.
Long-term care, other business groups find exclusion from federal vaccine mandate process ‘disappointing’
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 30, 2021
As the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration works to develop and issue a rule for a vaccine and testing mandate announced earlier this month by President Biden, some business...