Another New Form I-9?
Yes, you heard correctly! Just when employers were getting used to the January 2017 version, the USCIS released another revised version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. For now,...
View ArticleAndrew D. Kloeckner Quoted in a HFMA Article Discussing Tax-Status Revocation...
Andrew D. Kloeckner was quoted in a HFMA article, "IRS Makes First Revocation of Hospital Not-for-Profit Status Under 501(r)" on August 15, 2017. The article discusses tax-status revocations under the...
View ArticleSix Baird Holm Attorneys Named "Lawyer of the Year" for 2018 by Best Lawyers...
August 23, 2017 (Omaha, NE) – Best Lawyers in America has named six Baird Holm LLP attorneys as "Lawyer of the Year " in The Best Lawyers in America 2018 Edition. The recognition of "Lawyer of the...
View ArticleBaird Holm LLP Welcomes Benjamin E. Busboom
Baird Holm LLP is pleased to welcome Benjamin E. Busboom to the Firm. Ben is a business attorney with environmental and energy roots who regularly assists his clients through traditional transactional...
View ArticleThree Things to Consider When Adopting or Updating the Articles or Bylaws of...
On January 1, 2017, the Nebraska Model Business Corporation Act ("Act") went into effect. Its adoption provides numerous changes for the formation and operation of Nebraska corporations. This article...
View ArticleMeaningful Use Update: Flexible Options for CY 2018
On August 2, 2017, in the 2018 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long Term Acute Care Hospital Prospective Payment System Final Rule (the "Final Rule"), the Centers for...
View ArticleCMS Website About Jimmo Ruling is Now Posted
The Jimmo v. Sebelius case, settled in 2013, clarified Medicare coverage of nursing services and therapy to prevent deterioration, the so-called "maintenance coverage" standard. The clarification was...
View ArticleOIG's "Eye on Oversight" Video Series – Compliance Training Supplement
Beginning in January 2016 and usually produced monthly since then, the OIG has released videos on a wide variety of topics that the OIG states "highlight an emerging health care issue or trend." The...
View ArticleOMB Stays EEO-1 Form Pay Data Collection Requirement
On August 29, 2017, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) halted the new EEO-1 pay disclosure requirements required by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), pending OMB review. The...
View ArticleWhat Employers Need to Know about the Rescission of DACA
On Tuesday, September 5, 2017, the Trump Administration announced the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program established by Executive Order during the Obama...
View ArticleNew E-Verify Poster Released for Immediate Use
E-Verify just released a re-designed participation poster that consolidates prior English and Spanish posters into one poster. As stated in the E-Verify User Manual, employers must replace their...
View ArticleUnited States Supreme Court Upholds Wisconsin Land Use Regulations Against...
The United States Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a Wisconsin regulation that prevented a landowner from selling an adjacent lot as a separate building site. Murr et. al. v....
View ArticleNebraska Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal of Omaha City Council Decision and...
In its recent decision in Matthew Landrum et al. v. City of Omaha Planning Board et al., 297 Neb. 165 (2017), the Nebraska Supreme Court held that an action in error is not the proper means to seek...
View ArticleEquifax Data Breach: What You Should Do Now
On September 7, 2017, Equifax announced that it had experienced a cybersecurity breach impacting approximately 143 million people. It appears that the unauthorized access occurred mid-May through July...
View ArticleSean T. Nakamoto Quoted in Creighton Lawyer
Baird Holm attorney Sean T. Nakamoto discusses diversity and the impact receiving the Frances M. Ryan Diversity Endowed Scholarship had on him in the Fall 2017 edition of Creighton Lawyer magazine....
View ArticleCMS Announces Delay in Effective Date for New Home Health Agency Conditions...
Home health agencies ("HHAs") are struggling to deal with changes from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") on two fronts. On July 10, 2017, CMS released a final rule delaying the...
View ArticleWritten Physician Assistant Supervisory Agreements Are Now Required in Iowa
On September 15, 2017, the Iowa Board of Medicine published final administrative regulations governing the supervision of physician assistants PAs in Iowa. Although the new rules are effective...
View ArticleLeased Outreach Clinic Arrangements Disfavored by CMS
After the well-publicized CMS enforcement action against St. Peter's Hospital in Helena, Montana, in October, 2015, there was substantial confusion within the hospital industry about the effect of...
View ArticleChanges to Transactional Exemptions from Registration Under the Securities...
LB 148 amended various sections of the Securities Act of Nebraska (the "Act"). Some of the most substantive changes were to §8-1111. Generally, offers and sales of securities in the State of Nebraska...
View ArticleBaird Holm LLP Only Nebraska Law Firm to Attain Highest Ranking in All Five...
For the eleventh year in a row, Baird Holm LLP is the only Nebraska law firm to be listed in Band 1 (the highest tier) in all five main categories used by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for...
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