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20 Feb 2011, 12:27 pm
With the enactment of the MMA, the responsibility for hearing Medicare administrative appeals was transferred over to HHS, with OMHA reporting solely to the Secretary, HHS. [read post]
20 Feb 2011, 6:38 am
The New York Times and Washington Post provide more information about early reactions to the newly released rules. [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 6:59 pm
(Full text of HHS release.) [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 5:46 am
On Friday, DHHS issued a Final Rule that narrows the scope of ("partially rescinds") federal conscientious objection protection for healthcare workers. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 11:03 am
Controversial ‘Conscience’ Regulation for Health-Care Workers Rescinded :: HHS News Release :: New Conscience Protection Rule (pdf) [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 10:20 am
Today HHS released the text of its Final Rule on the Enforcement of Federal Health Care Provider Conscience Protection Laws. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 5:16 am
Levinson, HHS Inspector General. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 4:24 pm
Levinson, the HHS Inspector General, "Community mental health centers are an essential element of the nation's health care system and serve vulnerable populations...Today's arrests by OIG agents and our law enforcement partners show that we will not tolerate criminals who pay kickbacks for referrals of Medicare business or who bill for services that were either medically unnecessary or never provided. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 2:40 pm
There are no opt out provisions in the law, yet HHS is handing out waivers and exemptions without rhyme or reason.Latest count had us at 700+ groups covering over 2 million individuals that are granted spectator status for Obamacrap. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 12:00 pm
These contracts are part of the HHS radiological and nuclear threats preparedness strategy. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 10:00 am
Levinson, HHS Inspector General. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 2:30 pm
HHS HealthBeat is a production of the U.S. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 10:07 am
In the report of the Office of Inspector General of HHS to Congress providing a narrative review of its fiscal year 2012 budget request, two highlights: OIG-HHS is asking for an additional $64 million to oversee Medicare and Medicaid (from p. 9): Continue oversight of Medicaid and Medicare program activities previously funded through mandatory appropriations and funding in support of the Administration’s initiative to focus collaborative efforts on preventing health care… [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 4:47 am
The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 established a program known as the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 4:16 am
HHS ultimately imposed a twelve-year exclusion from Medicare and Medicaid, much longer than the typical exclusion of three years. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 2:30 pm
Fostering Careers in Health Care: A Discussion with Faith & Community Leaders You are Invited to an HHS Conference Call on Fostering Careers in Health Care: A Discussion with Faith & Community Leaders Please join Joshua DuBois, Executive Director of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships and Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN, Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration for a conversation on how the Affordable Care Act is fostering… [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 4:35 am
Just three weeks after the Department of Justice publicized recovering over $4 billion in fraud cases in fiscal year 2010, and a year after highlighting a marked increase in the portion of HHS’s budget devoted to DOJ components fighting health care fraud, it comes as some surprise that DOJ’s announcement of its proposed budget for 2012 is silent on anti-fraud efforts, choosing instead to focus attention on national security, prisons, and state, local and tribal cooperative… [read post]
13 Feb 2011, 6:44 am
Small businesses provide most new jobs, but the answer is obvious: Waivers are mostly, if not entirely, for politically significant businesses and unions that get the special attention of HHS or the White House. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 1:38 pm
At the very least, it suggests the impracticability of the health-care law; HHS gave the waivers because it fears the law will cost many Americans their jobs and insurance.More seriously, it raises questions about whether we live under a government of laws. [read post]
9 Feb 2011, 2:02 pm
Columbia's Philip Hamburger has an article in NRO that argues that the Health Care waivers that HHS Secretary Sebelius has been handing out to favored suppplicants violates an implicit constitutional understanding that the executive has no power to exercise a dispensing power -- the power, once associated with royalty, to exempt persons from compliance with otherwise generally applicable laws. [read post]
