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1 Nov 2019, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The opening of a criminal investigation is likely to raise alarms that Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his perceived enemies. [read post]
29 Oct 2019, 6:00 am by David Kris
First, the FBI is a security service, with combined law enforcement and intelligence/counterintelligence functions. [read post]
28 Oct 2019, 1:08 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has adopted its proposal to rescind the standard unique health plan identifier (HPID) and the “other entity identifier” (OEID), along with related implementation specifications and requirements for their use. [read post]
28 Oct 2019, 1:07 pm by Gordon Ahl, William Ford
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28 Oct 2019, 7:32 am by Brian E. Spang
” The Act defines a low-wage employee as an employee whose annual “earnings” are not more than 250% of the federal poverty level for individuals as established by the United States Department of Health and Human Services federal poverty guidelines. [read post]
27 Oct 2019, 11:03 am by Michael Cannan
Drinking and Driving The US Department of Transportation publication, Large Truck and Bus Crash Facts 2017, documents the most recent national truck accident statistics for tractor-trailer and large single-unit trucks. [read post]
27 Oct 2019, 6:51 am
This is believed to keep them from accumulating inside the human body in dangerous concentrations, but recent studies have shown them to be responsible for similar health effects to 8Cs. [read post]
26 Oct 2019, 4:56 am by Milad Emamian
Department of Health and Human Services that would remove explicit antidiscrimination protections for people based on sexual orientation and gender identity in health care. [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 2:17 pm by Jeff Wurzburg (US)
” The White House also continues to work on several healthcare proposals in close coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma. [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 5:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans and insurers and their service providers should heed as a warning of the potential perils they could face for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security and Breach Notification Rules the just-announced $2.15 million plus civil monetary penalty that Jackson Health System (JHS) paid the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR). [read post]
23 Oct 2019, 11:31 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer’s clients include employers and other workforce management organizations; employer, union, association, government and other insured and self-insured health and other employee benefit plan sponsors, benefit plans, fiduciaries, administrators, and other plan vendors;   domestic and international public and private health care, education and other community service and care organizations; managed care organizations; insurers, third-party administrative… [read post]
22 Oct 2019, 3:16 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Labor Employee Benefit Security Administration (“EBSA”) today (October 22, 2019). [read post]
22 Oct 2019, 11:06 am by Jim Baker
Of particular concern for the government are products and services that use encryption systems where the manufacturer or service provider does not retain the capability to decrypt the data, such as is the case with iPhones, iMessage and WhatsApp. [read post]
22 Oct 2019, 8:01 am by Debra A. McCurdy
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that commits the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to taking a series of regulatory and subregulatory actions intended to enhance the fiscal sustainability of the Medicare program, reduce regulatory burdens on providers, and increase beneficiary choice. [read post]
Enforcement Trends and Priorities The Director of OCR, Roger Severino, and Serena Mosely-Day, Senior Advisor for HIPAA Compliance and Enforcement at OCR, were among the speakers at the annual “Safeguarding Health Information: Building Assurance Through HIPAA Security” conference co-hosted on October 16 and 17 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the Department of Health and Human… [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 12:41 pm by Gordon Ahl, William Ford
Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you have questions. [read post]
18 Oct 2019, 11:59 am by Lindsey Kaley
The refusal of care rule, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), allows health care providers who receive federal funds to withhold critical information and to obstruct patient’s access to essential health care invoking their personal religious or moral beliefs — even in emergencies. [read post]
18 Oct 2019, 11:52 am by Jonathan Greenblatt, George Selim
One of us (Selim) ran an office in the Department of Homeland Security providing grants to local communities to counter extremism—but the Trump administration has drastically reduced the office’s funding. [read post]
18 Oct 2019, 10:16 am by Thomas DeLorenzo
The bill would authorize the Secretary of the Department of Heath and Human Services to negotiate with manufacturers to cap drug prices at up to 120% of the price of the medication in six designated foreign countries, along with providing incentives for generic medication and alternative treatments. [read post]