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27 Jul 2012, 3:00 am by Robert Kraft
In Dallas County, more than 68 percent of doctors said they would not treat new children who use CHIP. [read post]
4 Mar 2015, 3:57 am by David DePaolo
The company also communicated with the Dallas County Health and Human Services Department about preparations for Ebola in the months leading to Duncan’s admission, according to the suit.The suit claims Varga also made “numerous” false statements to Congress, such as that the hospital staff was trained to manage Ebola. [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]
24 May 2019, 10:46 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced its collection of a $3 million settlement payment from a radiology provider that also allowed hackers to breach its electronic protected health information (ePHI) by failing to conduct and respond to HIPAA-required risk assessments, OCR’s announcement late yesterday of the MIE Agreement makes clear that HIPAA entities need to tighten their HIPAA risk assessment, documentation and other… [read post]
12 May 2017, 6:20 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Her clients include public and private health care providers, health insurers, health plans, employers, payroll, staffing, recruitment, insurance and financial services, health and other technology and other vendors, and others. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 11:30 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Her publications and insights appear in the Health Care Compliance Association, Atlantic Information Service, Bureau of National Affairs, World At Work, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insurance, the Dallas Morning News, Modern Health Care, Managed Healthcare, Health Leaders, and a many other national and local publications. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 12:24 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Treatment includes the coordination or management of health care and related services by one or more health care providers and others, consultation between providers, and the referral of patients for treatment. [read post]
25 May 2023, 2:20 pm by Michael Lowe
  It was a joint effort; also involved were the Arlington Police Department, Colleyville Police Department, Collin County Sheriff’s Department, Dallas Police Department, Dallas County Sheriff’s Department, Frisco Police Department, Irving Police Department, Midlothian Police Department and the Tarrant County Human Trafficking Task Force. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 11:30 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  OCR Pilot Audit Program Begins On November 8, 2011, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced that it will begin auditing HIPAA compliance this month under a new pilot program. [read post]
17 Oct 2018, 4:19 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
When conducting these assessments, HIPAA Entities generally will want to ensure that their new enterprise risk assessment documents their consideration of the newly updated Security Risk Assessment (SRA) Tool jointly announced yesterday (October 16, 2018) by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and OCR, lessons shared in OCR’s $16 million Anthem, Inc. resolution… [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 9:35 am by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Tom Suehs said that with the managed care expansion, it remains essential that every “person who needs this prescription is getting it. [read post]
3 Sep 2020, 2:55 pm by Amy Starnes
You can read the order by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Health and Human Services here. [read post]
20 Apr 2020, 12:46 pm by Paul K. Stafford
Amended Order of County Judge Clay Jenkins, Dallas County, (Mar. 22, 2020), https://www.dallascounty.org/Assets/uploads/docs/judge-jenkins/covid [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 3:35 pm by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
HHSC intends to submit to CMS a request to amend the NorthSTAR waiver program, designed to provide behavioral health services to Medicaid-eligible individuals in the Dallas service delivery area. [read post]
1 Jan 2020, 10:35 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Scribe for the ABA JCEB Annual Agency Meeting with the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights, Vice Chair of the ABA International Section Life Sciences Committee, past Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group and the ABA RPTE Employee Benefits & Other Compensation Group, Ms. [read post]
10 Mar 2014, 8:25 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Departments of Labor, Health & Human Services, Education, Justice, Housing & Urban Development, and others all have both increased enforcement, audits and public outreach, as well as have sought or are proposing tighter regulations. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 3:05 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Baltimore County Nailed For Health Screening of Public Safety Workers On August 7, 2012, the Justice Department announced that Baltimore County, Maryland will pay $475,000 and change its hiring procedures to resolve a Justice Department lawsuit filed that charged the county violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by requiring employees to submit to medical examinations and disability-related inquiries without a proper reason, and by excluding applicants… [read post]
20 Jun 2015, 12:31 am by Drew Falkenstein
With the Boise Co-op Salmonella outbreak topping 250 sickened in early June and the Kenosha Supermercado Los Corrales outbreak at about 100 from late May, it may be instructive to look back over the last decade or so at other food service outbreaks of similar size for some context: Wyndham Anatole Hotel Salmonella Outbreak Lawsuits – Texas (2002) In March and April of 2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) joined the Texas Department of health (TDH), the… [read post]
8 Nov 2007, 7:56 am
Box 620847 Littleton, CO 80162-0847 Phone: (303) 797-1699 E-mail: mhdsa@aol.com Web: http://www.mhdsa.org Easter Seals Easter Seals Colorado 5755 West Alameda Avenue Lakewood, CO 80226 Phone: (303) 233-1666 (V/TTY); (800) 875-4732 (Toll Free) Web: http://www.eastersealsco.org Epilepsy Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado, Inc. 234 Columbine Street, Suite 333 Denver, CO 80206-4711 Phone: (303) 377-9774; (888) 378-9779 (Toll Free in CO) E-mail: efco@msn.com Web: http://www.epilepsycolorado.org … [read post]