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17 May 2017, 6:59 am by Ben Vernia
According to the May 2 press release: The United States has intervened and filed a complaint in a lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group Inc. [read post]
17 May 2017, 6:59 am by Ben Vernia
According to the May 2 press release: The United States has intervened and filed a complaint in a lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group Inc. [read post]
16 May 2017, 7:48 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Her day-to-day work encompasses both labor and employment issues, as well as independent contractor, outsourcing, employee leasing, management services and other nontraditional service relationships. [read post]
12 May 2017, 4:54 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health care providers, health plans, health insurers, healthcare clearinghouses, their business associates as well as all U.S. businesses and consumers should raise their cyber security defenses and use cyber security best practices to defend their information systems and data against ongoing WannaCry ransomware and other cyber security attacks in the United States and abroad in cyber security alerts issued by the Departments of Homeland Security, Health and Human Service (HHS) and… [read post]
12 May 2017, 2:39 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health care providers, health plans, health insurers, healthcare clearinghouses, their business associates as well as all U.S. businesses and consumers should raise their cyber security defenses and use cyber security best practices to defend their information systems and data against ongoing WannaCry ransomware and other cyber security attacks in the United States and abroad in cyber security alerts issued by the Departments of Homeland Security, Health and Human Service (HHS) and… [read post]
10 May 2017, 3:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Healthcare providers, health plans, healthcare clearinghouses and their business associates (Covered Entities) can’t disclose the name or other protected health care information about a patient in press releases or other announcements without prior authorization from the patient. [read post]
10 May 2017, 10:20 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Her day-to-day work encompasses both labor and employment issues, as well as independent contractor, outsourcing, employee leasing, management services and other nontraditional service relationships. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 6:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
OCR announced the first OCR HIPAA settlement involving a wireless health services provider Monday, April 24. [read post]
25 Apr 2017, 3:21 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 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,… [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 5:08 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
CCDH Sanctions For Violation Of HIPAA Business Associate Agreement Rules The CCDH Resolution Agreement arises from violations of this requirement that OCR says it discovered as a result of a compliance review conducted in response to an OCR investigation of a CCDH business associate, FileFax, Inc. [read post]
18 Apr 2017, 10:44 am by Greene LLP
The whistleblower (or “relator”) in this case, the former Director of Quality and Risk Management at Prime Healthcare Services, Inc., alleges that her employer defrauded the federal government of nearly $50 million dollars by billing for “medically unnecessary” inpatient short-stay admissions. [read post]
12 Apr 2017, 9:35 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
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]
5 Apr 2017, 1:43 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also shares her thought leadership, experience and advocacy on these and other concerns by her service in the leadership of a broad range of other professional and civic organization including her involvement as the Vice Chair of the North Texas Healthcare Compliance Association; Executive Director of the Coalition on Responsible Health Policy and its PROJECT COPE: Coalition on Patient Empowerment; former Board President of the early childhood development intervention… [read post]