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11 Mar 2017, 10:00 pm by Steven Grossman
FDA’s fate in the Trump budget will truly be in HHS’s hands. [read post]
10 Mar 2017, 7:05 am by Steven Koprince
Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General recently confirmed that the HHS OIG Hotline telephone number is being used as part of a telephone spoofing scam. [read post]
“Specialty drugs” are a fast growing sector of the pharmaceutical industry and are predicated to represent 50 percent of drug expenditures in the United States by 2020.[1] Specialty drugs are typically dispensed by specialty pharmacies. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 7:17 am by Debra A. McCurdy
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is moving ahead on its annual Medicare hospital payment update rule – and it actually is ahead of last year’s pace. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 10:01 pm by Dan Flynn
Secretary Price says HHS, which houses FDA and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)  among other units, is awaiting action on 18 presidential appointments that require Senate approval. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 1:55 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
The OIG stresses that it does not use the HHS OIG Hotline telephone number (1-800-HHS-TIPS/1-800-447-8477) to make outgoing calls and individuals should not answer calls from this number. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 1:38 pm by Elizabeth Litten
Amici make compelling legal arguments, but also emphasize several key facts that make this case both fascinating and unsettling: The FTC has spent millions of taxpayer dollars on this case – even though there were no victims (not one has been identified in over seven years), LabMD’s data security practices were already regulated by the HHS under HIPAA, and, according to the FTC’s paid litigation expert, LabMD’s “unreasonableness” ceased no later than… [read post]
5 Mar 2017, 6:32 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Key findings Data from the National Vital Statistics System, Mortality – Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999–2015 ●The age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2015 (16.3 per 100,000) was more than 2.5 times the rate in 1999 (6.1). ●Drug overdose death rates increased for all age groups, with the greatest percentage increase among adults aged 55–64 (from 4.2 per 100,000 in 1999 to 21.8 in 2015). [read post]
Many federal agencies, including the EEOC, OFCCP, OSHA, and HHS, previously promulgated rules and guidance affording increased protections for transgender individuals. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 12:55 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 Stamer has worked extensively throughout her career with health care providers, health plans and insurers, managed care organizations, health care clearinghouses, their business associates, employers, banks and other financial institutions, management services organizations, professional associations, medical staffs, accreditation agencies, auditors, technology and other vendors and service providers, and others on legal and operational compliance, risk management and compliance,… [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 12:46 pm by Robert T. Rhoad and Matthew Turetzky
  The DOJ statistics divide recoveries into three groups: (1) recoveries based on contracts with HHS, (2) recoveries based on contracts with DoD, and (3) other recoveries not based on the first two categories. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 9:30 pm by Justin Daniel
Department of Health and Human Service’s (HHS) rule that deals with federal grants for family planning services under Title X. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 3:15 pm by Neil Versel - MedCity News
If healthcare organizations and policy-makers are ever going to rein in costs, this is the time to do it. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 11:46 am by Jeff
Interesting Question: HIPAA lawyer Adam Greene was interviewed at HIMSS, and noted that HHS is close to publishing the regulations implementing the HITECH revisions that allow affected individuals to get a share of the fines levied by OCR. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 11:46 am by Jeff
Interesting Question: HIPAA lawyer Adam Greene was interviewed at HIMSS, and noted that HHS is close to publishing the regulations implementing the HITECH revisions that allow affected individuals to get a share of the fines levied by OCR. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 7:50 am by Debra A. McCurdy
Directing the HHS Secretary to equalize payment rates for evaluation and management visits between physician office and hospital outpatient settings. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 6:28 am by Debra A. McCurdy
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released another in series of Congressionally-mandated reports on Medicare market shares of mail order diabetes test strips, this one covering the three-month period after implementation of the National Mail-Order recompete on July 1, 2016. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 5:04 pm by Sally Satel
For three years, HHS has been silent on its proposed rule. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 6:00 am by Reproductive Rights
Rewire (Feb. 16, 2017): GOP Begins Shredding Family Planning Safeguards, by Christine Grimaldi: Using the Congressional Review Act, Republican law makers are working to undo regulations adopted during the Obama administration. [read post]