The Supreme Court recently upheld the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) vaccine mandate, which requires recipients of federal Medicare and Medicaid funding to ensure that employees, including third-party contractors, are vaccinated against COVID-19. In the first episode of “Owner's Outlook,” a special series at the intersection of health care and construction, attorneys Chris Dunn and Frank Morris discuss the scenarios in which the CMS vaccine mandate could extend to construction workers in health care facilities.

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