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15 Jun 2017, 9:37 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
A bottle of Coke-Cola is pulled for a quality control test at a Coco-Cola bottling plant on February 10, 2017 in Salt Lake City, Utah. [read post]
11 Jun 2017, 3:59 pm
Quality controls are necessary to ensure accuracy and reliability, because the scores can be manipulated by self-interested parties. [read post]
12 May 2017, 4:54 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Mid-afternoon today, HHS Critical Infrastructure Protection Lead Laura Wolf sent a cyber security alert warning health plans, health providers and health care clearinghouses to tighten their e-mail and other cyber security defenses in response to evidence that cyber attacks affecting hospitals and healthcare information systems in the UK and other international locations” now are “occurring inside the United States. [read post]
12 May 2017, 2:39 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Mid-afternoon today, HHS Critical Infrastructure Protection Lead Laura Wolf sent a cyber security alert warning health plans, health providers and health care clearinghouses to tighten their e-mail and other cyber security defenses in response to evidence that cyber attacks affecting hospitals and healthcare information systems in the UK and other international locations” now are “occurring inside the United States. [read post]
10 May 2017, 3:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
OCR’s announcement of the MHHS Resolution Agreement, for instance quotes OCR Director Roger Severino with stating that “Senior management should have known that disclosing a patient’s name on the title of a press release was a clear HIPAA Privacy violation that would induce a swift OCR response. [read post]
10 May 2017, 10:20 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer works with businesses and their management, employee benefit plans, governments and other organizations deal with all aspects of human resources and workforce, internal controls and regulatory compliance, change management and other performance and operations management and compliance. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 10:00 pm by Cookson Beecher
While Canada, Australia, Israel and most of Europe require sesame be declared on labels, the United States has no such requirement. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 6:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer’s legal, management and governmental affairs work has focused on helping health industry, health benefit and other organizations and their management use the law, performance and risk management tools and process to manage people, performance, quality, compliance, operations and risk. [read post]
25 Apr 2017, 3:21 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
While Congress and the Trump Administration continue to ponder and debate what if anything to do with the health care reforms of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), employer and other health plan sponsors, health plan insurers, plan fiduciaries and others responsible for health plan design, administration or funding must take steps to verify their past and continuing compliance with the ACA and other federal mandates while laying the groundwork to respond quickly to any eventual… [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 5:08 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Its provisions expressly state the Resolution Agreement does not affect any exposures of CCDH to CCDH to OCR civil monetary penalties or other enforcement for any HIPAA violations other than the Covered Conduct. [read post]
12 Apr 2017, 9:35 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  The American Bar Association (ABA) International Section Life Sciences Committee Vice Chair, a Scribe for the ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits (JCEB) Annual OCR Agency Meeting, former Vice President of the North Texas Health Care Compliance Professionals Association, past Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Section, past ABA JCEB Council Representative, past Board President of Richardson Development Center (now Warren Center) for Children Early… [read post]
4 Apr 2017, 8:36 am by Bob Kraft
Dog attack cases are responsible for more than four million injuries, on average, in the United States annually. [read post]
30 Mar 2017, 10:00 pm by News Desk
Chlorpyrifos was first registered for use in the United States by Dow Chemical in 1965  to control leafage and ground insects. [read post]
17 Mar 2017, 2:00 pm by Isaac Saidel-Goley
If the tax succeeds in improving consumption habits, its cost would be offset by personal gains from reduced healthcare costs and increased productivity (fewer days of work missed)—not to mention the intangible benefits of increased quality of life and reduced pain and suffering. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 12:51 pm by Christopher Weimer (US)
Department of Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms), which since 1973 has enforced regulations stating that the term “Tequila” may not be used commercially in the United States to describe any product not manufactured in Mexico by Mexican standards. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 12:51 pm by Christopher Weimer (US)
Department of Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms), which since 1973 has enforced regulations stating that the term “Tequila” may not be used commercially in the United States to describe any product not manufactured in Mexico by Mexican standards. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 12:55 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer continuously advises health and insurance industry clients about licensing, regulatory compliance and internal controls, workforce, agent and broker and medical staff performance, claims and reimbursement, quality, governance, reimbursement, privacy and data security, and other risk management and operational matters. [read post]