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12 Nov 2014, 8:15 pm by A. Brian Albritton
Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (“DHHS OIG”) for its work investigating the case. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 7:27 pm
For example, the cities of Aspen and Boulder and the city and County of Denver each had enacted ordinances which banned discrimination in many transactions and activities, including housing, employment, education, public accommodations, and health and welfare services. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 4:19 pm by Steven Boutwell
They are composed of substances that can cause immediate and long-term harm to human, health and protection of public health and must take precedence over the industry’s desire to keep such information secret. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 12:24 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 health care and other business leaders are working to prepare for the biggest contagious disease time of the year, the U.S. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 11:57 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is reminding health care providers, health plans, health care clearinghouses (Covered Entities) and their business associates that the privacy rules of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) requiring Covered Entities and their business associates to limit the use, access and disclosure of patient’s protected… [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 11:57 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is reminding health care providers, health plans, health care clearinghouses (Covered Entities) and their business associates that the privacy rules of the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) requiring Covered Entities and their business associates to limit the use, access and disclosure of patient’s protected… [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 11:56 am by Lynn Sessions and Scott Koller
Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has issued a guidance on how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) applies in emergency situations. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 3:47 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
One of the primary drafters of the Bolivian Social Security reform law and a highly involved leader on U.S. workforce, benefits, immigration and health care policy reform, Ms. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 2:36 pm
Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a bulletin that serves as a reminder that HIPAA privacy regulations generally apply in emergency situations.Specifically, OCR notes that the bulletin (1) addresses the ways in which patient information may be shared under the HIPAA Privacy Rule in an emergency situation and (2) serves as a reminder that the protections of the HIPAA Privacy Rule are not set aside during an emergency. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 2:36 pm
Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a bulletin that serves as a reminder that HIPAA privacy regulations generally apply in emergency situations.Specifically, OCR notes that the bulletin (1) addresses the ways in which patient information may be shared under the HIPAA Privacy Rule in an emergency situation and (2) serves as a reminder that the protections of the HIPAA Privacy Rule are not set aside during an emergency. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 10:38 am by Gail Cecchettini Whaley
The FAQs were jointly prepared by DOL, and the Health and Human Services and Treasury departments. [read post]
9 Nov 2014, 11:02 pm by Gretchen Goetz
Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service — are responsible for testing the U.S. food supply for pesticide residues. [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 9:42 am by Louthian Law Firm
Department of Health and Human Services, out of the 145 medical schools in the U.S., only 11 have a geriatric department. [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 6:09 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 plan administrators and other services providers,  and governments on health care, retirement, employment, insurance, and tax program design, administration, defense and policy. [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 4:49 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Employer and other sponsors, insurers and administrators of non-grandfathered group health plans that pay a fixed amount for a particular procedure (for example, a knee replacement) where network providers have agreed to accept that referenced amount as payment in full (“reference-based pricing”) should verify their use of these practices complies in design and administration with the additional guidance on the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA) out-of-pocket… [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 3:15 pm by Edward A. Fallone
  Under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Health and Human Services requires employers to provide health insurance plans making contraception available to their female employees at no cost. [read post]