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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) clarified the application of HIPAA’s privacy rules, including their exception for public health-related disclosures, in the Coronavirus context. [read post]
3 Mar 2020, 1:39 pm by Ben Kostyack
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) demanding answers on the recent whistleblower report that the HHS sent untrained workers to two Coronavirus (COVID-19) quarantine sites. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 12:35 pm by Jessica M. Simons and Nick J. Welle
Legal Development   In a proposed rule recently issued by HHS (available here), which would apply beginning in 2021, HHS appears to have backed away from its prior position. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 11:04 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Since health insurers whose administrative expenses exceed the MLS ratio must rebate premiums under the ACA, HHS anticipates that finalizing the 2/06/20 Proposed Rule as proposed would prompt insured health plans covered by the MLR rule that use PBMs to administer pharmacy benefits to change the compensation provisions of their PBM contracts to eliminate or restructure those payments. [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]
Department of Health and Human Services has alleged that workers sent to help the coronavirus evacuees from China did not have the proper training or equipment, and that HHS officials deployed the individuals over objections that the workers could be exposed to the infection. [read post]
29 Feb 2020, 6:30 am by Nick Younger
” The whistleblower claims that HHS officials retaliated against her for raising these concerns by improperly reassigning her. [read post]
27 Feb 2020, 9:05 pm by Alana Bevan
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule that prohibits recipients of Title X funds from referring women for abortions. [read post]
27 Feb 2020, 1:00 pm by Evan Minton
HHS is supposed to protect patients and expand access to healthcare — not allow providers to use religion as a license to discriminate. [read post]
27 Feb 2020, 3:01 am by Kellie McTammany
Clarifications are being posted  <a href="https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/HomeHealthPPS/HH-PDGM" target="_blank"> online </a>  by CMS that deal with early errors in the program and the ensuing turmoil of therapy provision for patients within the new guidelines. [read post]
26 Feb 2020, 11:00 pm by DONALD SCARINCI
In addition, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) created an additional exemption for religious nonprofit organizations that object to providing coverage for contraceptive services. [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 4:17 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers and their payroll service provider should prepare for income and employment tax withholding changes expected when the Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) finalize recently proposed rules on Income Tax Withholding From Wages intended to update the federal income tax withholding rules to reflect changes made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and other legislation.The proposed rules officially published in the Federal Register on February 13, 2020 available here follow… [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 4:02 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employers and their payroll service provider should prepare for income and employment tax withholding changes expected when the Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) finalize recently proposed rules on Income Tax Withholding From Wages intended to update the federal income tax withholding rules to reflect changes made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and other legislation.The proposed rules officially published in the Federal Register on February 13, 2020 available here follow… [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 3:00 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
  House Budget Committee leaders have blasted the HHS provisions, and the package as a whole is unlikely to be advanced by Congress. [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
 The dissenters argued that the HHS rules violate Congressional mandates, saying in part:The majority would return us to an older world, one in which a government bureaucrat could restrict a medical professional from informing a patient of the full range of health care options available to her. [read post]
25 Feb 2020, 3:05 am by Walter Olson
In the HHS episode, it was the liberal side of the controversy that was trying to impose a uniform standard from coast to coast; in this case, it is some conservative religious groups that hope to do that. [read post]
24 Feb 2020, 1:42 pm by Jordan Ross
Overall, the Ninth Circuit did not find that HHS acted arbitrarily or capriciously in adopting the rules, and, as a result, the rules can be enforced until a decision is rendered upon remand. [read post]
23 Feb 2020, 10:16 am by Tyler Gillett
The HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) had sent the notice to California on January 24, stating that they found California to be in violation of the Weldon Amendment. [read post]