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10 May 2017, 10:20 am
While Congress continues to debate the future of the Obamacare health reforms and its exchanges, the Department of Health & Human Services is reminding employers with less than 50 employees that wish to offer group health coverage for their employees to check out their coverage options offered the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Marketplace established as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). [read post]
8 May 2017, 7:10 pm
I have tremendous respect for the career men and women of the Department of Justice, including the lawyers in the civil division who are handling this. [read post]
5 May 2017, 9:12 am
The USPTO also formally intervened in the case and designated Mark Freeman from the DOJ Civil Division’s Appellate Staff to argue. [read post]
28 Apr 2017, 7:43 am
After resolution failed, VETS referred the complaint to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 6:14 pm
A new Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) CardioNet Resolution Agreement and Corrective Action Plan (Resolution Agreement) settling OCR charges of violations of the Privacy and Security Rules of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act against remote cardiac monitoring provider CardioNet provides important lessons for health plans, health insurers telemedicine and other healthcare providers, healthcare clearinghouses… [read post]
25 Apr 2017, 3:21 pm
Among other things, group health plans and their fiduciaries can face audits, litigation and enforcement actions by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and other health plans for improperly coordinating plan claims with other coverage as well as lawsuits from covered persons, their health care providers or other beneficiaries, the Department of Labor and CMS, or others seeking to enforce rights to benefits, penalties in the case of CMS or the Department of Labor, and… [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 5:08 pm
That’s the clear message to covered entities and their business associates in the April 17, 2017 HIPAA Resolution Agreement just announced by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) with the Center for Children’s Digestive Health (CCDH). [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 8:33 am
In 1571, an English jurist named Edmund Plowden, trying to make sense of cases involving the sale and purchase of land owned by various monarchs, argued: [T]he King has in him two Bodies, viz., a Body natural, and a Body politic. [read post]
16 Apr 2017, 5:59 pm
Whiting's most recent experience in the Justice Department was in the business end of the notoriously left-leaning Civil Rights Division. [read post]
12 Apr 2017, 9:35 pm
Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) charges it violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule by failing to implement a security management process to safeguard electronic protected health information (ePHI). [read post]
12 Apr 2017, 11:02 am
“U.S. workers should not be placed in a disfavored status, and the department is wholeheartedly committed to investigating and vigorously prosecuting these claims” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler of the Civil Rights Division. [read post]
3 Apr 2017, 10:50 am
"The Justice Department will not tolerate employers misusing the H-1B visa process to discriminate against US workers," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler of DOJ's Civil Rights Division. [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 8:01 am
Sameena Shina Majeed, Principal Deputy Chief in the DOJ Housing and Civil Enforcement Section of the Civil Rights Division, chronicled the many redlining consent orders/lawsuits filed by DOJ over more than a decade. [read post]
10 Mar 2017, 9:45 am
The Oregon DOJ's director of civil rights was not targeting police — he was sharing the cover of a hip hop album. [read post]
28 Feb 2017, 9:55 am
” The NSA’s Special Source Operations (SSO) division partners with the corporate owners of these networks to gather data at certain key points, like at network routers or switches. [read post]
26 Feb 2017, 9:30 pm
Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Rights Division—these initiatives may be in jeopardy with the change in administrations. [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 9:30 pm
” For example, the Disability Rights Section of the DOJ Civil Rights Division has included among potential modifications the “regular practice of handcuffing arrestees behind their backs” the way Ms. [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 5:58 pm
DOJ Tax DOJ Tax stands for the Department of Justice Tax Division located in Washington, D.C. [read post]
19 Feb 2017, 12:39 pm
The desperate need for Jeff Sessions to turn DOJ's Civil Rights Division upside down has never been on more vivid display than in the juxtaposition of the following stories.In the first, we see that, under DOJ's consent decree with crime-ridden Baltimore, one subject of considerable attention is the need for police to use the correct pronoun when they interact with citizens. [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 3:01 pm
The MHS Resolution Agreement resulted from an investigation initiated by the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) after MHS reported to OCR that protected health information (PHI) of 115,143 individuals had been impermissibly accessed by its employees and impermissibly disclosed to affiliated physician office staff. [read post]
