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28 Jul 2016, 2:30 pm
Employers, insurers and other health plan sponsors or issuers (health plans), health care providers, healthcare clearinghouses (covered entities) and their business associates should reevaluate the adequacy of their practices and procedures for the protection of electronic protected health information (ePHI) on or accessible through laptops or other mobile devices in light of the $2.75 million penalty and other schooling the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) just… [read post]
27 Jul 2016, 4:53 pm
Sunu Chandy is the new Deputy Director of the Department of Health & Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR). [read post]
27 Jul 2016, 1:10 pm
Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) released new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) guidance on ransomware. [read post]
25 Jul 2016, 4:09 pm
“Using an ISAO to exchange cyber threat information with these healthcare organizations, bi-directionally between HHS and the Healthcare and Public Health sector, we hope to build the capacity to better prevent, detect and respond to cyber attacks. [read post]
25 Jul 2016, 6:55 am
This guidance comes in the wake of a June 20, 2016 “Dear Colleague” letter from HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell highlighting ransomware issues. [read post]
23 Jul 2016, 8:55 pm
In a Request For Information (full text) published yesterday in the Federal Register, the IRS, HHS and Employee Benefits Security Administration asked for suggestions on ways to further accommodate objections by religious non-profits to furnishing their employees coverage for contraceptive services in employer health plans. [read post]
21 Jul 2016, 1:41 pm
Less than four months later HHS followed up their prior letter with an additional extension lasting through 2017.The delay has benefited employers and bought insurers time. [read post]
21 Jul 2016, 7:58 am
The Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury just now issued a Request for Information (RFI) in light of the Supreme Court's remand in Zubik. [read post]
20 Jul 2016, 11:22 am
And HHS tries to achieve a plausible policy goal with an overreaching legal interpretation; as Michael explains, the result could be massive unintended consequences. [read post]
20 Jul 2016, 10:27 am
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has proposed major changes to short-term, limited duration insurance plans:• Short-term health policies could be written for no longer than three months, instead of up to a year as is now allowed. [read post]
19 Jul 2016, 8:40 am
HHS has announced a series of actions to address the nation’s opioid epidemic, as Congress has cleared the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act for the President’s signature. [read post]
18 Jul 2016, 4:26 pm
HHS has not announced when the organizations will begin training and educating small practices. [read post]
18 Jul 2016, 3:15 pm
Key provisions of the legislation would: provide grants to increase access to treatment for children with mental disorders and individuals with serious mental illness and fund various other mental health programs; promote evidence-based models in mental health care; clarify Medicaid coverage provisions related to mental health services; promote compliance with mental health and substance use disorder coverage parity requirements; promote workforce development; direct the Secretary of HHS to… [read post]
18 Jul 2016, 10:36 am
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a proposed rule intended to address the significant backlog resulting from “an unprecedented and sustained increase” in Medicare appeals. [read post]
15 Jul 2016, 8:43 am
To learn more about the latest actions by HHS see the HHS July 6, 2016 news release. [read post]
15 Jul 2016, 6:45 am
The HHS access guidance provides important information regarding the different rules that apply when an individual provides a signed authorization for release of their PHI versus when an individual is really making a request for access to his or her PHI. [read post]
15 Jul 2016, 6:45 am
The HHS access guidance provides important information regarding the different rules that apply when an individual provides a signed authorization for release of their PHI versus when an individual is really making a request for access to his or her PHI. [read post]
14 Jul 2016, 7:24 am
On June 12, 2016, the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released guidance, entitled “FACT SHEET: Ransomware and HIPAA,” in response to the rising number of ransomware attacks perpetrated against healthcare entities. [read post]
14 Jul 2016, 5:45 am
On June 12, 2016, the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released guidance, entitled “FACT SHEET: Ransomware and HIPAA,” in response to the rising number of ransomware attacks perpetrated against healthcare entities. [read post]
13 Jul 2016, 10:00 am
US Attorney General Loretta Lynch and US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said the three-day takedown represents the largest number of arrests, spread over the greatest number of districts and featuring largest dollar amount that the Medicare Fraud Strike Force has made since it was founded nine years ago.... [read post]
