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13 Dec 2014, 8:56 am by Debra A. McCurdy
On December 4, 2014, President Obama signed into law H.R. 4067, which requires the Secretary of HHS to continue to instruct Medicare contractors not to enforce requirements for direct physician supervision of outpatient therapeutic services in critical access and small rural hospitals through 2014. [read post]
12 Dec 2014, 5:39 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Grants Management: Programs at HHS and HUD Collect Administrative Cost Information but Differences in Cost Caps and Definitions Create Challenges, GAO-15-118: Published: Dec 12, 2014. [read post]
12 Dec 2014, 6:13 am by Lisa Baird
On December 8, 2014, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it has agreed to settle potential HIPAA Security Rule violations with Anchorage Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS), a five-facility, nonprofit organization providing behavioral health care services to children, adults, and families in Anchorage, Alaska. [read post]
12 Dec 2014, 3:52 am by ligitsec
The HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell has encouraged other countries to follow suit and to offer similar liability protections. [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 9:30 pm by RegBlog
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a report detailing the options for new customers shopping in the health insurance marketplace. [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 4:13 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
They have argued that the states that refused to create exchanges would, under intense political pressure to restore large tax credits to middle-class citizens, move quickly to do so, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would help them by relaxing any applicable rules. [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 12:13 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also regularly represents clients and works with Congress and state legislatures, EBSA, IRS, EEOC, OCR and other HHS agencies, state insurance and other regulators, and others. [read post]
10 Dec 2014, 9:30 pm by Sonya Shea
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) took issue with the GAO’s recommendations. [read post]
10 Dec 2014, 12:37 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also regularly represents clients and works with Congress and state legislatures, EBSA, IRS, EEOC, OCR and other HHS agencies, state insurance and other regulators, and others. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 8:11 am by Elizabeth Litten
The Secretary of HHS will consider aggravating factors in determining the amount of the penalty, including whether the HIPAA violation resulted in harm to an individual’s reputation. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 2:09 pm
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was a good news-bad news portrait of hospital care in America. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 1:47 pm by Casey K. Fleming
As a real world example, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced earlier this year that two entities collectively paid the HHS Office for Civil Rights almost $2 million in penalties to resolve potential HIPAA violations after non-encrypted laptops holding electronic PHI were stolen. [read post]
7 Dec 2014, 7:26 pm by Ben Vernia
On December 3, the Office of Inspector General of HHS announced (no permalink available) that a Texas otolaryngology practice had paid over $200,000 to resolve allegations that it had submitted false claims to federal health care programs. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 8:08 am by Debra A. McCurdy
On December 8, 2014, HHS is publishing a notice announcing that the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is requesting public comment on ethical considerations related to public health emergency response, focusing on the current Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 7:27 am by Lillian Chaves Moon
If the medical information is subject to HIPAA, such as in the case of information maintained with respect to the company’s group health plan for employees, HHS has released a security assessment tool. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 5:20 am by Debra A. McCurdy
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a report that examines the extent to which Medicare mail order market share for diabetes test strips changed after the start of national mail order competitive bidding for these items on July 1, 2013. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 1:09 pm
Legal Services Offer Enormous Value The holiday season can also be thought of as vacation migration. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 8:00 am by Lynn Sessions
 HHS’s own guidance tells us that flexibility is built into HIPAA compliance and that the approach taken will depend on unique considerations for the organization. [read post]