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27 Apr 2016, 9:01 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and other group health plan sponsors, fiduciaries and administrators and  individual and group health insurers should confirm their plan documents and practices comply with new additional guidance on when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) preventive care mandates set forth in Public Health Services (PHS) Act section 2713, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) require… [read post]
23 Mar 2020, 1:46 pm by Donald W. Schroeder and Sommer Wiss
According to the press release accompanying the Order, Governor Baker has directed the Department of Public Health to issue a stay at home advisory outlining self-isolation and social distancing protocols. [read post]
11 Aug 2022, 8:25 am by Carrie McNamara
Department of Health and Human Services, “Gender-affirming care is a supportive form of health care. [read post]
2 Feb 2018, 8:57 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
   According to the report, the USB data storage device included complete names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers. [read post]
24 Jul 2009, 7:19 am
  The state Department of Social and Health Services is investigating the case of a nursing home patient who slipped and fell last month as she was getting out of bed, taken to a hospital and later died. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 6:07 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Consequently, sponsoring employers and their management generally will want to ensure that their plan documents are properly updated to comply with the out-of-pocket maximum and other federal requirements, to require contractual commitments to administer the health plan in compliance with and to report, correct, and indemnify for violations of these requirements in vendor contracts with their health plan insurers, administrators and other vendors, and conduct documented… [read post]
16 Apr 2013, 2:00 am by Robert Kraft
The DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has the answers for you — if you can decipher the technical language. [read post]
10 Aug 2022, 11:56 am by Dave Maass
" The four agencies are the State Department of Health Care Services. the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Department of Managed Health Care and the State Department of Public Health. [read post]
13 Apr 2023, 8:33 am by George B. Breen
Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) updated its Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”), drafting 13  FAQs aimed at easing the transition from COVID-era flexibilities to the end of the Public Health Emergency (“PHE”) on May 11, 2023. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 5:16 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
With the November 5, 2014 deadline for “controlling health plans” CHPs (except small health plans) to obtain the Health Plan Identifier (HPID) required by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administrative Simplification: Adoption of a Standard for a Unique Health Plan Identifier Final Rule (Final Rule) the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is working to streamline the process… [read post]
26 Mar 2009, 6:48 am
Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Trade Commission prompted by 2006 media reports that Dumpsters behind certain CVS pharmacies contained pill bottles with patients' names, Social Security numbers and insurance information. [read post]
11 Dec 2023, 4:00 am by Luciano Bottini Filho
Camila Gianella Malca is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Affiliated Researcher with the Global Health and Human Rights Project at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School; and Fellow, Centre on Law and Social Transformation (Bergen, Norway). [read post]
8 Oct 2016, 11:39 am by Bill Marler
“On October 6, 2016, a case of hepatitis A in a bakery worker was reported to the Health Department,” said Danette York, Lewis County Public Health & Social Services director. [read post]
8 Oct 2016, 11:38 am by Bill Marler
“On October 6, 2016, a case of hepatitis A in a bakery worker was reported to the Health Department,” said Danette York, Lewis County Public Health & Social Services director. [read post]
5 Feb 2013, 4:22 am by Heidi Henson
The Department of Labor’s Employee Benefit Security Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Internal Revenue Service (the Departments) have issued proposed regulations that clarify the definition of religious employer under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) no-cost sharing contraceptive coverage requirement. [read post]
14 Apr 2020, 10:28 am by Bianca Saad
Individuals who shop at essential businesses, including grocery stores and restaurants offering delivery, drive-thru or carry out service, must also practice social distancing and wear a cloth facing covering while visiting these businesses. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 7:08 am by LTA-Editor
HIPAA grants the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights authority to impose heavy civil and criminal penalties on covered entities that violate the privacy rules. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 7:08 am by LTA-Editor
HIPAA grants the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights authority to impose heavy civil and criminal penalties on covered entities that violate the privacy rules. [read post]
Department of Health and Human Services (“OIG”) issued a Policy Statement that increased the thresholds for gifts to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to be considered “nominal” under the beneficiary inducement provisions of the civil monetary penalties law (section 1128A(a)(5) of the Social Security Act) (“CMP Law”). [read post]