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20 Mar 2020, 5:41 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Consequently, along with its release of the 2020 Report, EBSA reminded plans, employers and other interested parties of the following previously published EBSA guidance about the MHPAEA mandates:FY 2019 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) Enforcement Fact Sheet, available at https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/EBSA/laws-and-regulations/laws/mental-health-parity/mhpaea-enforcement-2019.pdfAppendix to FY 2019 MHPAEA Enforcement Fact Sheet, available at… [read post]
17 Nov 2021, 2:44 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer-based health plans, health insurance issuers, and other group health plans should begin preparing to report prescription drug and health coverage costs data for prescription drugs covered by their programs after December 31, 2021 required by an interim final rule with request for comments issued by the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, the Treasury (collectively, the Departments), and the Office of Personnel… [read post]
22 Feb 2019, 9:00 am by Staff
It seeks to regulate how physicians refer Medicare and Medicaid patients. [read post]
25 Mar 2024, 12:29 pm by Michael Lowe
  That same year, the HHS’s Office of the Inspector General also undertook investigations that resulted in 661 criminal actions based upon health care fraud involving Medicare and Medicaid. [read post]
9 Mar 2011, 11:46 am by Tom
This is going to be relatively easy because the largest payer of hospital and nursing facility care is the Medicare system and the chief policy maker is the director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) who serves at the pleasure of the president of the United States. [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 8:15 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Businesses, individuals, states and federal and state Congressional and regulatory leaders others looking for opportunities to manage these costs should carefully scrutinize how the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) plans to define “essential health benefits” (EHBs). [read post]
11 Apr 2019, 4:21 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also has extensive health care reimbursement and insurance experience advising and defending health care providers, payers, and others about Medicare, Medicaid, Medicare and Medicaid Advantage, Tri-Care, self-insured group, association, individual and group and other health benefit programs and coverages including but not limited to advising public and private payers about coverage and program design and… [read post]
27 Aug 2013, 7:23 am by Spencer Aronfeld
 As a result of the DOJ’s efforts, approximately $4.2 billion was deposited with the Treasury or Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and to private persons during the fiscal year. [read post]
19 Apr 2022, 5:05 am by David W.S. Lieberman
Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General Anti-Kickback Statute regulations, also highlight the breadth of this definition: Congress’s intent in placing the term “remuneration” in the statute in 1977 was to cover the transferring of anything of value in any form or manner whatsoever. 56 Fed. [read post]
22 Mar 2016, 6:57 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR). [read post]
12 May 2017, 4:54 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health care providers, health plans, health insurers, healthcare clearinghouses, their business associates as well as all U.S. businesses and consumers should raise their cyber security defenses and use cyber security best practices to defend their information systems and data against ongoing WannaCry ransomware and other cyber security attacks in the United States and abroad in cyber security alerts issued by the Departments of Homeland Security, Health and… [read post]
7 Dec 2018, 4:55 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Internal Revenue Service is warning human resources and other business leaders about a growing wave of identity theft and W-2 scams targeting sensitive tax data employers collect on their employees. [read post]
8 Jan 2019, 12:38 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Current Status The Report says increases in the adoption of health IT means most Americans receiving health care services now have their health data recorded electronically. [read post]
4 Aug 2023, 5:55 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Effective August 3, 2023, the Departments of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Labor Employee Benefit Security Administration and Department of Treasury (“Departments”) temporarily suspended the Federal Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) medical claims review process including the ability to initiate new disputes and directed certified IDR entities to pause all IDR-related… [read post]
29 Aug 2022, 11:08 am by Susan McNear Fradenburg
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) was tasked with providing specific protocols for facilities to implement pursuant to Clifford’s Law. [read post]
13 Dec 2018, 12:15 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR). [read post]
25 Nov 2007, 3:12 pm
It's one of our chief concerns," said Roseanne Pawelec, spokeswoman for the Boston office of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. [read post]