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9 Mar 2014, 9:55 am by Kimberly M. Wong
  The Skagit County Public Health Department provides essential services to residents who are unable to afford health care. [read post]
10 Nov 2015, 12:00 am
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is considering adoption of anti-discrimination regulations that would apply to all health care providers and build upon the Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandate prohibiting discrimination “on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability” for any health program or activity that receives federal financial assistance. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 7:32 pm by Allan Blutstein
Department of Health & Human Services for records about the government’s investigation of the Massachusetts-based medical device company Abiomed Inc. [read post]
12 Aug 2024, 12:43 pm by Kaufman Dolowich
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently published a final rule that establishes disincentives for health care providers that have committed information blocking—essentially those practices that interfere with the free flow of certain patient information. [read post]
25 Aug 2022, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
But in Dobbs’s wake and in an attempt to resolve any potential conflict with state law, the Department of Health and Human Services issued Guidance purporting to remind providers of their existing EMTALA obligations to provide abortions regardless of state law. [read post]
9 Apr 2012, 8:30 am by Jeremy Snyder and Valorie A. Crooks
Little trustworthy evidence is available about medical tourism patient flows or the impacts of this practice on health equity, health human resources, patient health and safety, and the spread of infectious disease. [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 9:03 pm by Michael Kline
Department of Health and Human Services list (the “HHS List”) of breaches of unsecured PHI affecting 500 or more individuals. [read post]
20 Mar 2020, 5:41 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Consequently, along with its release of the 2020 Report, EBSA reminded plans, employers and other interested parties of the following previously published EBSA guidance about the MHPAEA mandates:FY 2019 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA) Enforcement Fact Sheet, available at https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/EBSA/laws-and-regulations/laws/mental-health-parity/mhpaea-enforcement-2019.pdfAppendix to FY 2019 MHPAEA Enforcement Fact Sheet, available at… [read post]
The Department of Health and Human Services and its Office of Civil Rights (OCR) are capping off a very active 2016. [read post]
2 Mar 2020, 7:29 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Today (March 2, 2020) is the last day to submit comments on Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2021; Notice Requirement for Non-Federal Governmental Plans Proposed Rule” (“Proposed Rule”) published by HHS on February 6. 2020. [read post]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) office, is taking action to recoup CARES Act funding from health care providers who received relief funding but did not meet the reporting requirements set by HRSA. [read post]
22 May 2020, 11:00 am by Unknown
"Just a day earlier, a group of public health experts submitted a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services and CDC urging them to "to withdraw – not extend or expand indefinitely – this policy and instead direct U.S. officials to use rational, evidence-based public health measures to safeguard both the health of the public and the lives of adults, families, and unaccompanied children seeking asylum… [read post]
On December 28, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a favorable advisory opinion on a proposal by a drug manufacturer to enter into an arrangement with certain hospitals to provide up to a specified number of free samples of a long-acting antipsychotic drug for inpatient use. [read post]
12 Jun 2023, 2:27 pm by Devon Minnick
”   The most recent development emanating from this initiative is the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) proposed rule to modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to protect privacy with respect to protected health information (PHI) related to reproductive health care, which is open for comment until June 16th (see link to submit comments below). [read post]
6 Dec 2012, 10:54 am by Ryan Blaney
On November 26, 2012, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) published a thirty-two page document titled “Guidance Regarding Methods for De-identification of Protected Health Information in Accordance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule” (“De-Identification Guidance”). [read post]
27 Feb 2020, 5:12 pm by Rebecca E. Dittrich and Scot Hasselman
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released official diagnosis coding guidance for health care encounters and deaths related to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), potentially in anticipation of more frequent cases in the United States. [read post]
13 Dec 2023, 2:56 pm by Alan M. Rauss
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency officially ended on May 11, 2023, when the Department of Health and Human Services allowed the federal Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 to expire, but people are still getting COVID-19, and some of them are getting seriously ill from it. [read post]
22 Jan 2011, 7:47 pm by Frank Pasquale
On November 22, 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services released its interim final rule implementing the requirements of the new section 2718 of the Public Health Services Act (added by section 10101 of the Affordable Care Act), entitled, “Bringing Down the Cost of Health Care Coverage. [read post]
26 Apr 2021, 9:08 pm by Jasmine Wang
Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to disappear. [read post]