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24 Oct 2019, 9:16 am
For the better part of the last decade, physician practices have seen a wave of consolidation by hospitals and private equity with 2018 being no exception [1]. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 9:31 pm
Thus, despite a modest increase in total domestic discretionary funding for 2020 relative to 2019, the Senate Appropriations Committee would cutprograms within the jurisdiction of its Labor-HHS-Education Subcommittee. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 5:14 pm
” These and other findings led to the OCR determination in the Notice of Proposed Determination and Notice of Final Determination that JHS failed to provide timely and accurate breach notification to the Secretary of HHS, conduct enterprise-wide risk analyses, manage identified risks to a reasonable and appropriate level, regularly review information system activity records, and restrict authorization of its workforce members’ access to patient ePHI to the minimum necessary to… [read post]
22 Oct 2019, 8:01 am
The executive order also calls on HHS to enact policies to combat Medicare fraud, waste, and abuse, “including through the use of the latest technologies such as artificial intelligence. [read post]
22 Oct 2019, 5:13 am
The HHS is asking that the CDC guidelines be reviewed to consider chronic pain patients. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 3:26 pm
HHS Security Risk Assessment Tool The developers of HHS’s Security Risk Assessment Tool are incorporating feedback received during webinars on the tool offered by the agency during the summer of 2019 into the next version of the tool, which is intended primarily for small- and mid-sized organizations. [read post]
18 Oct 2019, 11:59 am
HHS has included a proposal to roll back those protections by carving out an absolute exemption for religiously-affiliated health care providers from the prohibition on sex discrimination. [read post]
17 Oct 2019, 7:11 am
The shift to the Trump administration also led to a change in HHS’s position. [read post]
17 Oct 2019, 5:59 am
HHS (D.D.C.) -- on renewed summary judgment, finding that: (1) HHS performed reasonable search for certain records pertaining to 2007 review of agency’s Department of Spiritual Ministry, and (2) HHS properly withheld draft press release exchanged with third party pursuant to Exemption 5’s deliberative process privilege, in conjunction with the consultant corollary doctrine. [read post]
17 Oct 2019, 4:33 am
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General has found that, between 2012 The post Lack of Oversight for Hospice Providers appeared first on Rochester Elder Law. [read post]
17 Oct 2019, 4:33 am
</p> </div> <div style="padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:35px;" data-rss-type="text"> <p style="margin:0px;"> The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General has found that, between 2012 and 2016, health inspectors cited 87% of hospices for deficiencies. [read post]
16 Oct 2019, 2:33 pm
Every Dental Practice Must Develop and Implement an Effective Compliance Program: As you will recall, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG), issued voluntary Compliance Guidance for Individual and Small Group Physician Practices” almost 20 years ago, in 2000.[6] As the seven element compliance guidance reflects, the term “physician” is defined to include “a doctor of dental surgery or dental medicine. [read post]
16 Oct 2019, 9:36 am
On Thursday, October 17, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) will publish in the Federal Register two proposals to implement major changes to Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) regulations. [read post]
14 Oct 2019, 3:33 pm
On October 9, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued two sweeping proposals aimed at revising the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) regulations to adapt to and promote the US health care system’s transformation to value-based payment and delivery models.[1] The proposed rules are part of HHS’s Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care Initiative and… [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 1:13 pm
” [HL Pulse summary] Following the Court’s decision, HHS opened a comment period for Kentucky HEALTH and the Secretary re-approved the waiver on November 20, 2018. [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 3:23 pm
Concluding Remarks and Next Steps HHS’ work is far from done. [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 11:11 am
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today the release of several proposed changes to the regulations that interpret the Physician Self-Referral Law (the Stark Law), the Civil Monetary Penalty Law (CMP), and the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). [read post]
9 Oct 2019, 8:45 am
A research firm with an office in Maryland has received a $3.28 million federal contract to find and test strategies for management of opioid use and misuse in older adults at primary care practices. [read post]
8 Oct 2019, 9:05 pm
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) suggests that increasing the number of nurse practitioners and physician assistants who could provide primary care services would help alleviate the shortage of primary care physicians. [read post]
8 Oct 2019, 2:00 pm
(October 8, 2019): On April 16th, 2018, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), issued a Final Rule entitled, “Medicare Program; Contract Year 2019 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage, Medicare Cost Plan, Medicare Fee-for-Service, the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs, and the PACE Program. [read post]
