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6 Nov 2014, 6:09 pm
Employer and other sponsors of healthcare reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), health flexible spending arrangements (Health FSAs) or other arrangements that reimburse employees for health premiums, their fiduciaries, insurers and administrators should re-evaluate the defensibility of these arrangements in light of supplemental guidance about the treatment of these arrangements under the annual limits, preventive care without cost-sharing and other Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA)… [read post]
18 Dec 2017, 11:15 am
I just returned from a hearing before Judge Chutkan on a motion by “Jane Roe” and “Jane Poe” for a temporary restraining order that would enjoin HHS from requiring the shelters to stand in the way of their abortions. [read post]
14 Dec 2009, 7:49 pm
On Friday, December 11, 2009, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission ("MedPAC") released its draft recommendation to the Secretary of Health and Human Services ("HHS") to forgo any market basket update to payment rates for long-term acute care hospitals ("LTACH") for the 2011 rate year ("RY") (see meeting transcript). [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 11:34 am
On April 17, 2012, the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement and corrective action plan with Phoenix Cardiac Surgery, P.C. [read post]
30 Aug 2021, 6:35 am
On September 13, 2020, former President Trump signed an executive order directing HHS to test payment models for Medicare Parts B and D in which Medicare would pay for certain drugs up to the “most favored nation” price, defined as “the lowest price, after adjusting for volume and differences in national gross domestic product, for a pharmaceutical product that the drug manufacturer sells in a member country of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development… [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 7:49 am
On October 7, 2009, the DOL, IRS, and HHS issued interim final regulations implementing Sections 101 to 103 of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA). [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 6:24 am
On January 10, 2022, the Departments of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Treasury (DOT) (collectively, the Departments) jointly issued FAQs regarding the implementation of required insurance coverage for at-home COVID-19 tests under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). [read post]
9 Sep 2013, 4:50 am
El Departamento de Salud federal (HHS, en inglés) asignó un total de $3,617,606 en fondos federales para el programa Head Start en los Municipios de Caguas y Ponce, el cual busca proveer servicios educativos, de salud y de nutrición a niños y a sus familias de bajos recursos, informó el Comisionado Residente en Washington, Pedro Pierluisi. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 7:52 am
Earlier this month (February 2012) the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) released its report regarding the assessment of Review Medicaid Integrity Contractors (MICs). [read post]
21 Apr 2017, 5:52 am
According to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), an error like that can cost a small healthcare provider $31,000. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 7:17 am
The Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury issued interim final regulations on July 19, 2010 requiring new plans and issuers to cover certain preventive services without any cost-sharing for the enrollee when delivered by in-network providers. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 5:00 am
Recently, in Advisory Opinion 22-20, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) approved an acute care hospital’s arrangement in which its employed nurse practitioners (NPs) perform certain services that the patients’ primary care physicians traditionally perform. [read post]
20 Dec 2016, 4:18 am
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published a final rule amending the safe harbors to the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the Civil Monetary Penalty (CMP) rules to protect certain payment practices and business arrangements from criminal prosecution or civil sanctions under the AKS (Final Rule). [read post]
1 Feb 2022, 6:23 am
Late last year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a significant Advisory Opinion regarding a proposed joint venture (JV) between a therapy services provider and an owner of various long-term care (LTC) facilities. [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 8:34 pm
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 2007 study, the United States will require 1.2 million new Registered Nurses (RNs) by 2014 to meet the nursing demand: approximately 500,000 RNs to replace nurses leaving the field, and "an additional 700,000 to meet growing demand for nursing services. [read post]
20 Dec 2016, 1:15 pm
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published a final rule to codify the OIG’s expanded authority under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to impose civil monetary penalties (CMPs) on providers and suppliers under a variety of additional scenarios. [read post]
17 Mar 2010, 11:42 am
Last week, the OIG released it's Compendium of Unimplemented Recommendations that "consolidates significant unimplemented monetary and nonmonetary recommendations addressed to the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to provide information to interested parties about outstanding recommendations.... [read post]
22 Mar 2016, 11:18 am
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced on Monday that it has launched the long-awaited Phase 2 of its HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Audit Program. [read post]
29 Sep 2014, 8:08 pm
Written by Tyler Philippi The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently released guidance on the application process to obtain a Health Plan Identifier (“HPID”). [read post]
18 Apr 2016, 11:44 am
The Medicare Fraud Strike Force, which includes personnel from the FBI, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and local law enforcement organizations, led the takedown in 17 areas over the course of three days. [read post]
