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4 Dec 0001, 4:00 pm by Elizabeth Litten
  Approved MSSPs must sign a Data Use Agreement with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) before it can obtain data from CMS that contains Medicare beneficiaries’ PHI. [read post]
26 Apr 2022, 12:12 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Health Insurance Marketplaces 2022 Open Enrollment Report (“Report”) published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last month reveals the 2022 Open Enrollment Period (“2022 OEP”) produced the highest enrollment in health care marketplace plans since passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) 12 years ago. [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 7:14 pm
It promotes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the primary agency to monitor how hospitals and other medical facilities administer antibiotics, and it enumerates steps for hospitals that treat Medicaid and Medicare patients (and therefore receive public funding) to reduce inappropriate use. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 7:29 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Today (March 2, 2020) is the last day to submit comments on Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2021; Notice Requirement for Non-Federal Governmental Plans Proposed Rule” (“Proposed Rule”) published by HHS on February 6. 2020. [read post]
16 Sep 2013, 3:21 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer is recognized, internationally, nationally and locally for her more than 25 years of work, advocacy, education and publications on cutting edge health and managed care, employee benefit, human resources and related workforce, insurance and financial services, and health care matters. [read post]
10 May 2017, 3:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that the largest not-for-profit health system in Southeast Texas, Memorial Hermann Health System (MHHS) is paying to settle charges it violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule by issuing a press release with the name and other protected health information (PHI) about a patient without the patient’s prior HIPAA-compliant authorization under a… [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 9:10 am by Debra A. McCurdy
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Department of Justice (DOJ), and relators’ attorneys will likely utilize these data to initiate investigations and support complaints under the federal False Claims Act (FCA). [read post]
22 Apr 2013, 8:13 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
” Researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation prepared the Study by conducting statistical modeling and analysis of 50 years of health spending and economic trends using data on the U.S. economy and national health care expenditures data from actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through 2011, and from the Center for Sustainable Health Spending at the Altarum Institute for 2012. [read post]
29 Mar 2022, 5:04 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
As of March 29, 2022, coverage of the second COVID-19 booster with or without cost-sharing also does not appear to be required to comply with the preventive care mandates of §2713 of the Public Health Service Act [PHSA]) enacted as part of the ACA. [read post]
30 Oct 2009, 10:14 am by Lebowitz & Mzhen
Department of Health and Human Services- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, (SAMHSA): National Mental Health Information Center Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, (CMS): Nursing Home Quality Initiative, (NHQI) [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 10:23 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans must deliver electronic protected health information (“ePHI”) to electronic applications or software (“apps”) used by plan members, and are responsible under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules for the security of electronic protected health information (“ePHI”) on apps they sponsor or provide, according to new guidance from the Department of… [read post]
3 Dec 2018, 1:21 pm by Robert Liles
  One particular provision with far reaching consequences is Subtitle J, also known as the “Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA). [read post]
18 Nov 2018, 8:30 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Formerly known as Carolinas HealthCare System, the dominant health care provider in the Charlotte, North Carolina area, and one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in the United States, Atrium provides healthcare services throughout the Carolinas, including in hospitals, freestanding emergency departments, urgent care centers, physician practices, outpatient surgery centers, imaging centers, nursing homes, and laboratories. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 1:26 pm by Ed Wallis
Agents from the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services issued the district, also known as Broward Health, a subpoena May 17 to review contracts given to more than 27 physicians for violations of Stark and anti-kickback laws. [read post]
4 Dec 2008, 8:45 pm
The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit went into effect on January 1, 2006.7 The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit, known as Part D Plans, is administered by private health plans that have been approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 9:30 pm by Thomas D. Campbell
Department of the Treasury, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and whistleblowers who made the cases possible. [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 9:40 pm by Thomas D. Campbell
Department of the Treasury, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and whistleblowers who made the cases possible. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 11:30 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also has worked extensively domestically and internationally on public policy and regulatory advocacy on health and other employee benefits, human resources, insurance, tax, compliance and other matters and representing clients in dealings with the US Congress, Departments of Labor, Treasury, Health & Human Services, Federal Trade Commission, HUD and Justice, as well as a state legislatures attorneys general, insurance, labor,… [read post]