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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]
27 Mar 2018, 2:19 pm
The 11-member Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee(PTAC) established by MACRA to consider whether models submitted by stakeholders qualify as Medicare alternative payment models voted to move forward on proposals for two alternative payment models for review by the HHS secretary. [read post]
20 Aug 2009, 6:25 pm
It was issued by HHS CDC and DHS and I was kind enough to read the whole thing (do you see what I do for you people?) [read post]
15 Feb 2016, 7:11 am
Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights recently issued a $239,000.00 HIPAA fine to Lincare, Inc. [read post]
21 Jul 2023, 5:00 am
On July 20, 2023 HHS and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a joint letter to approximately 130 companies regarding their online data collection processes. [read post]
21 Dec 2021, 6:10 am
In a recent advisory opinion, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) opined that employment of an anesthesia provider may be low risk under the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) under certain circumstances. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 7:34 am
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program (also known as the “Meaningful Use” program) will be delayed for one year for providers who attest during 2011. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 3:30 pm
On June 10, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded to KPMG a $9.2 million contract to create an audit protocol and then audit covered entities’ and business associates’ compliance with the privacy and security requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). [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]
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]
29 Jan 2007, 10:40 am
Here it is.Recently 3Ls got an e-mail about our wonderful classmate and my dear friend HH. [read post]
25 Nov 2020, 1:32 pm
On November 20, 2020, in a joint effort, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued final rules to revise and modernize the Physician Self-Referral Law (“Stark Law”), Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) and Civil Monetary Penalties Law (“CMP”). [read post]
