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25 Jan 2012, 11:00 am
In addition, the HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, working in conjunction with the HHS-OIG, are taking steps to increase accountability and decrease the presence of fraudulent providers. [read post]
25 Jan 2012, 10:18 am
., HHS-OIG, DCIS, etc.) are woefully understaffed. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 9:00 pm
HHS considered Trustmark’s increases unreasonable in part because they would result in “medical loss ratios” of less than 80%, meaning that HHS believed that less than 80% of the new premiums would be spent on providing or improving the quality of health care. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 4:56 pm
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 gave HHS the authority to review rates for reasonableness when increases exceed 10 percent. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 9:53 am
The HHS medical error study concludes that just 1 in 7 hospital errors or accidents are reported, contrary to what is required by law. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 11:21 am
So why do President Obama and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius get a pass when they order Catholic schools, hospitals, and social service agencies to cover birth control, sterilization, and the morning after pill? [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 9:00 am
We commend HHS for standing up for what is right. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 8:33 am
Early findings may provide significant fodder for HHS to kickstart its virtual money machine (fines levied go into HHS coffers). [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 6:07 am
The law requires qualifying entities to begin to report data to HHS on March 31, 2013. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 4:06 am
HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius said giving church-related sponsors of health plans an additional year to comply with the contraceptive mandate “strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious freedom and increasing access to important preventive services. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 4:05 am
Mike Beebe (D) has announced his intent to participate in a Partnership Exchange.Thus far, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued several rounds of “planning grants” and “establishment grants” to the District of Columbia and all states except Alaska, totaling over $700 million, toward the development of exchanges.Please click here for a complete copy of the Update. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 1:59 am
The HHS Inspector General recently highlighted some issues FDA's had with contracting with the states. [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 9:26 pm
As we noted in a recent posting, FDA’s oversight of food facility inspections conducted by state agencies has already come under scrutiny by the HHS Office of Inspector General. [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 5:53 pm
In its recent Annual Report to Congress on Breaches of Unsecured Protected Health Information, the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services, we see confirmation of certain trends-- bigger breaches and breaches involving theft of electronic media: Between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2010, breaches involving 500 or more individuals also made up less than one percent of reports, yet accounted for more than 99 percent of the more than 5.4 million individuals who were… [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 4:43 pm
Last August, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the initial or "interim" ruling on contraceptive coverage. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 2:30 pm
HHS HealthBeat is a production of the U.S. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 10:39 am
That’s why the nonpartisan Institute of Medicine initially recommended to HHS that insurance companies be required to cover contraceptives in the first place, and why the administration adopted — and has now confirmed — that policy. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 1:59 am
"Getting them written, approved by HHS and then through [the Office of Management and Budget] is a lot to do and my understanding is that the current hold up is at OMB. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 12:28 pm
” HHS-OIG, USSS, and the FBI conducted the investigations. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 3:45 am
“Congress also should direct HHS to cut payments to skilled nursing facilities with relatively high risk-adjusted rehospitalization rates for their Medicare-covered skilled nursing facility stays. [read post]
