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9 Mar 2014, 10:03 pm by Dan Flynn
” Ranchers who used Rancho for custom processing services are keeping pressure on USDA to remove their meat from the recall involving almost 9 million pounds of beef distributed commercially to at least 6,300 retail outlets. [read post]
9 Mar 2014, 1:12 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  These include additional coverage, benefit, and nondiscrimination rules added to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Code, the Public Health Services Act and other provisions of the Social Security Act, by laws like the Consolidated Omnibus [read post]
7 Mar 2014, 1:26 pm by CzepigaDalyPope LLC
Department of Health and Human Services identified more than 600,000 hospital stays that lasted for three or more nights but did not qualify the patient for coverage of nursing home care. [read post]
7 Mar 2014, 11:35 am
Department of Health and Human Services has issued a report finding that a third of nursing home patients released are harmed by the care that they receive at these professional facilities. [read post]
6 Mar 2014, 3:10 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Third party administrators  (TPAs), self-insured health plans and concerned payers and plan sponsors now have a little more time to comment on the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) proposed rule, “Administrative Simplification: Health Plan Certification of Compliance. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 2:35 pm by John Potter
Long-Term Care Costs The United States Department of Health and Human Services tells us that most of the people in the United States will eventually need custodial care. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 11:06 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A series of supplemental guidance issued by the Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in recent weeks is giving health care providers, health plans, health care clearinghouses (Covered Entities) and their business associates even more to do in reviewing and updating their policies, practices and training for handing protected health information (PHI) beyond bringing their policies and practices… [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 8:41 am by WIMS
EPA is initiating an external peer review of the agency's draft human health effects documents for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS). [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 5:04 am by Debra A. McCurdy
Major Program Integrity/Efficiency Provisions Expand funding for the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC) program, the Medicaid Integrity Program, and Medicaid Fraud Control Units, and other Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) program integrity efforts. [read post]
4 Mar 2014, 5:50 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Non-grandfathered self-insured and large group health plans must comply with the out-of-pocket limits in 2014 but pending further guidance are excused from the duty to comply with deductible limitations imposed by the cost-sharing limitations of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA) according to new guidance jointly published February 20, 2013 by the Departments of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Treasury… [read post]
4 Mar 2014, 1:56 pm
Nursing home negligence such as substandard treatment, inadequate monitoring of patients or failure and delay to provide necessary care are the main causes of preventable adverse events and temporary arm events for patients requiring post acute care in a skilled nursing facility according to a large study conducted by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General. [read post]
4 Mar 2014, 9:51 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Filed under: Employers, Health Plans, HIPAA, Human Resources, Insurance Tagged: ACA, Affordable Care Act, Annual Fee, Coordomation of Benefits, Health Care Provider, Health Plan, Insurer, Secondary Payer, Tax [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 10:02 pm by Bettina Elias Siegel
Department of Agriculture (USDA) is about to allow U.S chickens to be sent to China for processing and then shipped back to the U.S. for human consumption. [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 8:08 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Today (March 3, 2014) is the deadline for controlling health plans  (“CHPs) and other concerned parties to comment on the “Administrative Simplification: Health Plan Certification of Compliance” rule (Proposed Rule) published by the Department of Health & Human Service (HHS) on January 2, 2014. [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 7:03 am by Ramy Fayed
A recent settlement with the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) demonstrates the importance […] [read post]
3 Mar 2014, 7:03 am by Ramy Fayed
A recent settlement with the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) demonstrates the importance […] [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 6:24 pm
According to the Dallas Morning News, the top-ranking members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Wednesday notified the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which is a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, that they were “investigating the adequacy of CMS screening” of healthcare providers. [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 10:10 am
Would it make a difference if prison policies were skewed toward humane conditions or toward reducing recidivism? [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 9:40 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
Department of Health & Human Services) will present "Current Developments in Privacy & Security Rule Enforcement." [read post]