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28 Dec 2020, 2:56 pm by Elizabeth G. Litten
  The bill requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, when considering penalties, audits and other actions related to HIPAA breaches and security incidents, to take into consideration whether the covered entity or business associate has had “recognized security practices” in place for at least 12 months. [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 2:56 pm by Elizabeth G. Litten
  The bill requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, when considering penalties, audits and other actions related to HIPAA breaches and security incidents, to take into consideration whether the covered entity or business associate has had “recognized security practices” in place for at least 12 months. [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 2:56 pm by Elizabeth G. Litten
  The bill requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, when considering penalties, audits and other actions related to HIPAA breaches and security incidents, to take into consideration whether the covered entity or business associate has had “recognized security practices” in place for at least 12 months. [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 12:15 pm by John Gotaskie
Covered worker protection expenditures: an operating or capital expenditure to facilitate the adaptation of the business activities of an entity to comply with requirements established or guidance issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control, or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or any equivalent requirements established or guidance issued by a State or local government, during the period… [read post]
28 Dec 2020, 2:00 am by Kelli Carpenter Fleming, Burr Forman
Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has dealt with a wide variety of discrimination claims against healthcare providers. [read post]
27 Dec 2020, 5:59 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
CRS Insight – Operation Warp Speed Contracts for COVID-19 Vaccines and Ancillary Vaccination Materials, December 22, 2020: “Operation Warp Speed (OWS) is an interagency partnership between the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense (DOD) that coordinates federal efforts to accelerate the development, acquisition, and distribution of COVID-19 medical countermeasures. [read post]
26 Dec 2020, 3:00 pm by Howard Friedman
Tanvir held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act permits suits for damages against federal officials in their individual capacities.(8) The Department of Health and Human Services adopted a final rule that rolled back health care anti-discrimination coverage in federally supported services. [read post]
24 Dec 2020, 9:05 pm by Max Masuda-Farkas
Department of Health and Human Services found in a new report that the Indian Health Service, an agency that oversees medical services for federally recognized Native American tribes, has made strides to implement policies that protect patients from sexual misconduct by agency staff. [read post]
A federal judge in Maryland granted a temporary injunction against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Wednesday, temporarily blocking a proposed rule to reduce drug prices. [read post]
24 Dec 2020, 10:07 am by Adam Schwartz
Department of Health and Human Services expanded its processing of data about people who took COVID-19 tests, the federal government announced plans to share COVID-related data with its own corporate contractors, including TeleTracking Technologies and Palantir. [read post]
23 Dec 2020, 10:59 am by kblocher@hslf.org
Department of Veterans Affairs to pair individuals with post-deployment mental health conditions with dogs to train as service animals. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 9:00 pm by Austin Sarat
Ignoring these facts and defying common sense, the state’s Democratic attorney general and President-elect Biden’s nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra, has continued to seek death sentences and to send more people to prison to await execution.Unlike Becerra, state officials and judges across the country, including in the reddest of red states, have responded to COVID-19 by slowing or stopping capital prosecutions and by putting… [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 11:12 am by Deanna Besbekos-LaPage
Another layer of protection was added in 2005, when the Bush Administration signed into law the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, which authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to declare that a vaccine manufacturer, along with others involved with the creation and distribution of the vaccine, are immune from liability for claims of loss or injury caused by the administration of the vaccine. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 10:40 am by Caitlin Chambers
This includes any payments made by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) under so-called “Targeted Distributions,” which represents a change from the position taken in guidance issued by HHS. [read post]
  The Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, jointly with the Secretary of Labor and Secretary of Treasury, must establish through notice-and-comment rulemaking within one year of enactment, one IDR process. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 9:17 am by Giles Peaker
Westminster’s s.184 decision was that Ms K was not vulnerable, in large part because You do not have severe and enduring mental health problems which warrant input from a secondary mental health services or admission to hospital. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
Ever since the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Texas Department of Housing & Community Affairs v. [read post]
22 Dec 2020, 3:14 am by Kellie McTammany
This service provides links to self-help groups, health-related websites, support, and more. [read post]
21 Dec 2020, 5:17 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans, health care providers, health insurers, health care clearinghouses (“Covered Entities”) and their business associates should budget and begin compliance plans, even as they comment on proposed changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule announced by the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) in its… [read post]