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11 Oct 2021, 7:59 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Federal government contractors and grant recipients should tighten cyber security policies, practices and internal controls to mitigate their exposure to civil False Claims Act claims by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) under a new DOJ Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative announced by DOJ last week. [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 9:19 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Vendors and developers of mobile health apps and connected devices (“health apps”) that track or collect fitness or other health information that contain individually identifiable health information created or received by health care providers (“personal health records” or “PHR”) and their service providers (“collectively “PHR Vendors””) should verify their data security and breach notification policies and processes comply with applicable… [read post]
3 Aug 2021, 6:42 am by dev1
New Alzheimer’s Drug Could Receive National Coverage Policy, Now Under Medicare Review On July 12, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the opening of a National Coverage Determination (NCD) analysis. [read post]
11 Mar 2020, 2:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
   Solutions Law Press, Inc. invites you receive future updates by registering on our Solutions Law Press, Inc. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 11:04 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  In addition to the changes proposed in the 2/06/20 Proposed Rule,  in response to President Trump’s  July 24, 2020 Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First, HHS on November 14, 2019 also undertook two other regulatory actions intended to increase price transparency to empower patients and increase competition among all hospitals, group health plans and health insurance issuers in the individual and group markets:… [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 4:17 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
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25 Feb 2020, 4:02 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
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3 Feb 2020, 8:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
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28 Jan 2020, 9:58 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans and their health plan records providers and other business associates should review and update their existing policies and practices concerning providing and charging individuals for access to protected health information in response to modifications in the Department of Health & Human Service (“HHS”) Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) rules implementing the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) requirements regarding… [read post]
1 Jan 2020, 10:35 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
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18 Dec 2019, 10:03 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 Depending on the computer system used, DOJ claims Omnicare also sometimes assigned a fake number of authorized refills to a prescription – usually 99 allowable refills for Medicare patients – to allow for continuous refilling. [read post]
16 Dec 2019, 3:13 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  OCR’s investigation determined that, in addition to that impermissible disclosure, DADS violated the HIPAA Security Rule by failing to conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis and implement access and audit controls on Community Living Assistance and Support Services and Deaf Blind with Multiple Disabilities (“CLASS/DBMD”) program information systems and applications intended to collect and report information about “Utilization Management and Review” activities… [read post]
13 Dec 2019, 1:49 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The NFL player indictments show taht prosecutions Alone or coupled with the hundreds of other fraud investigations and prosecuations that the Department of Justice and other federal and state agencies pursue each year, send a strong message that the Justice Department and other fedederal agencies stand ready to investigate nad prosecute health care fraud against private employer or union sponsored health plans, as well as fraud against Medicare, Mdicaid and other government programs. [read post]
10 Dec 2019, 4:02 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Total U.S. national healthcare spending in 2018 grew 4.6 percent according to a study conducted by the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). [read post]