Sumaya Noush
Subscribe to Sumaya Noush's PostsSumaya M. Noush counsels regional and multistate hospitals and health systems, specialty hospitals, academic medical centers and other healthcare organizations on a variety of strategic and operational matters. These matters include: mergers, asset and membership/stock transactions, joint ventures, hospital and physician affiliations, disaffiliations, dissolutions, divestitures, management of ownership transitions, entity structure formation and governance, medical staff bylaws, credentialing, peer review and privileging as well as survey, certification and accreditation matters. Read Sumaya Noush's full bio.
HHS Publishes New Rights of Conscience Final Rule
By Gregory Fosheim, Sumaya Noush, David Quinn Gacioch and Edward G. Zacharias on Mar 28, 2024
Posted In Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans
On January 11, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its new final rule governing federal healthcare conscience protection statutes. The 2024 final rule, which went into effect March 11, 2024, repeals the majority of the prior final rule from 2019 that was found to be unlawful by three federal courts...
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New Illinois Protections Against Patient Medical Debt May Also Help Reduce Hospital Bad Debt
By Sumaya Noush, Gregory Fosheim and Drew Elizabeth McCormick on Jan 9, 2024
Posted In Employee Benefits, Health and Welfare Plans
The Protect Illinoisans from Unfair Medical Debt bill will require Illinois hospitals to take a much more active role in limiting consumers’ medical debt. The bill puts into place four primary requirements designed to reduce the medical debt burden of individuals receiving care. These requirements will apply to services provided on or after June 29,...
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