What do healthcare leaders predict is next for rural hospitals? In this Fierce Healthcare article, McDermott Partner Emily Jane Cook offers her perspective about rural emergency hospitals and possible legislative action around them.
Amid Dwindling COVID Relief Funds, Rural Hospitals Face a ‘Fiscal Cliff’
By Emily J. Cook on January 31, 2023
Posted In Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans
Emily J. CookIn today’s complex and fast-changing healthcare regulatory environment, Emily Jane Cook helps healthcare organizations thrive. Innovative start-ups and established market leaders alike turn to Emily for broad-spectrum strategies to fuel new business initiatives and solve their most pressing compliance, transactional, reimbursement and litigation challenges. Emily is a practice area leader for the Healthcare Regulatory & Compliance practice. In addition to Emily’s role as a national authority on the 340B drug pricing program, Emily helps clients navigate the full suite of federal and state regulations that are essential to healthcare operations. She partners with a wide range of organizations, including non-traditional service providers and new market entrants to identify, protect and expand revenue opportunities, including via private-equity-backed ventures. Her comprehensive counsel encompasses evolving issues such as No Surprises Act (NSA) implementation, development of new provider types, Medicare provider-based and co-location rules, and trends in qui tam litigation and government investigations. She works closely with colleagues in McDermott’s transactional, litigation and private equity practices to deliver fully realized solutions for her clients. Read Emily Cook's full bio.
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