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15 Feb 2018, 4:41 pm
Health plans and insurers, their service providers that act as business associates within the meaning of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) and employer and other health plan sponsors, fiduciaries, and other management leaders should heed the warnings contained in the new Resolution Agreement (FileFax Resolution Agreement) with former HIPAA business associate FileFax, Inc. announced by the Department of Health… [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 7:08 pm
Department of Health and Human Services. [read post]
16 Dec 2017, 8:50 am
I have spent the past two weeks visiting the United States, at the invitation of the federal government, to look at whether the persistence of extreme poverty in America undermines the enjoyment of human rights by its citizens. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 4:43 am
Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) titled “Early Alert: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Has Inadequate Procedures To Ensure That Incidents of Potential Abuse or Neglect at Skilled Nursing Facilities Are Identified and Reported in Accordance With Applicable Requirements. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 4:43 am
Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) titled “Early Alert: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Has Inadequate Procedures To Ensure That Incidents of Potential Abuse or Neglect at Skilled Nursing Facilities Are Identified and Reported in Accordance With Applicable Requirements. [read post]
29 Nov 2017, 2:18 am
At the federal level alone, there will be several different agencies focusing on this: i.e., the Justice Department (FBI); the Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG); and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). [read post]
14 Nov 2017, 7:24 am
On November 13, President Trump announced that he is nominating Alex Azar as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. [read post]
9 Oct 2017, 1:43 pm
The Trump Administration has formally withdrawn a number of pending Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposals that never reached the final rule stage. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 7:32 pm
For instance, in the United States 50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second, and 73% of third marriages reportedly end in divorce.[5] Some mental health professionals speculate this is explainable because there is less “glue” to stabilize second or their marriages that begin later in life, and imply that spouses in those situations may be more likely to ‘cut and run. [read post]
31 Aug 2017, 7:11 am
Department of Health and Human Services,” told NPR. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 7:31 am
Thirty state Medicaid Fraud Control Units also participated in today’s arrests. [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 12:02 pm
Health providers like Navicent Health in the State of Georgia engage in government programs fraud by submitting false claims to Medicare and Medicaid every day. [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 12:02 pm
Health providers like Navicent Health in the State of Georgia engage in government programs fraud by submitting false claims to Medicare and Medicaid every day. [read post]
20 Jul 2017, 2:56 pm
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is also currently in testing stage of a hospice program that allows Palliative care to continue, called the Medicare Care Choices Model. [read post]
3 Jul 2017, 1:07 pm
The Texas Department of Health and Human Services released a report in late May which concluded that these programs would most likely have to be terminated if the waiver program ended. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 7:56 am
Given the rising costs of health care, it is not surprising that nonprofit hospitals, including hospitals founded by religious orders, accept patients who have Medicare, Medicaid or other government-sponsored insurance plans. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 10:44 am
by Mark Kantor and Karl Bayer The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an arm of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, released an announcement on June 5th withdrawing its 2016 Rule prohibiting pre-dispute arbitration agreements for long-term care nursing home contracts. [read post]
12 May 2017, 4:54 pm
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… [read post]
12 May 2017, 2:39 pm
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… [read post]
10 May 2017, 3:14 pm
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… [read post]
