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20 Jul 2012, 6:40 am
Ash Stevens informed HHS that it was not a small business under the correct size standard but asked HHS to either retain the 500 employee size standard or grant HHS a waiver. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 10:07 pm
For example, if a BA of a CE is also a BA/CE with respect to specific PHI, the BA/CE has primary reporting and/or documentation obligations to HHS in the event of a privacy breach, even to the extent of a separate report to HHS for a List Breach. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 6:53 pm
Located within HHS, the mission of AHRQ (which had a $405 million budget in FY 2012) is to improve health care quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 2:18 pm
HHS As expected, the funding bill would defund a number of Affordable Care Act provisions and programs that would effectively prevent the law’s implementation. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 1:36 pm
HHS intends to establish additional rules on essential health benefit standards in the future. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 1:36 pm
HHS intends to establish additional rules on essential health benefit standards in the future. [read post]
19 Jul 2012, 1:31 pm
HHS did not adopt any changes to the regulation in response to public comments, so “industry implementation efforts should be underway for the January 1, 2014 compliance date. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 2:25 pm
” In a July 12 statement, HHS Acting Assistant Secretary George Sheldon says the Social Security Act provides the department the “authority to grant states waivers of certain TANF provisions for the purpose of testing new approaches to meeting the goals of the TANF statute. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 10:16 am
" Deputy Attorney General Cole also discussed the impact of the HEAT initiative in combating healthcare fraud: "Since May 2009 - when Attorney General Eric Holder and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the creation of the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team - or HEAT - this fight has been a Cabinet-level priority. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 10:12 am
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently reported, however, that 198,543 hospice beneficiaries received 677,022 prescription drugs through the Medicare Part D program in 2009 that potentially should have been covered by hospice per diem payments because the particular drugs (analgesics, antinauseants, laxatives, and antianxiety drugs) primarily are used for palliative care. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 9:53 am
The House Labor-HHS appropriations bill would eliminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 7:01 pm
Thank you HHS for this wonderful gift. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 6:22 pm
Circuit’s long-awaited decision in the HHS debarment proceedings involving former executives in the Purdue Frederick Co., Inc. case. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 12:14 pm
Diabetes & Death Certificates (Sec. 10407) Directs the CDC and the HHS Secretary to encourage states to adopt new standards for issuing death certificates that include information about whether the deceased had diabetes. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 10:57 am
In a recent presentation to the Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania, officials from the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provided detailed information on all breaches including the agency’s enforcement and auditing activities. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 5:55 am
And here is the related HHS memo. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 1:27 am
SEBELIUS: MOST STATES WILL PARTICIPATE IN MEDICAID EXPANSIONIn a speech on July 11, Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius expressed confidence that most states will participate in the expansion of the Medicaid program provided for in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 4:49 pm
In HITECH, Congress directed HHS to complete a study of the HIPAA de-identification standard by February 2010. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 1:30 pm
HHS HealthBeat is a production of the U.S. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 9:00 am
Included in the HITECH Act's requirements was a mandate that the Department of Health and Human Services’ ("HHS") Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") conduct audits to analyze the processes, controls and policies of certain covered entities. [read post]
