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6 May 2016, 1:04 pm
Recent guidance published by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS Guidance) emphasizes the need for covered entities to be able to respond to an individual who says “I want my PHI” in a way that complies with HIPAA and state law access requirements, even when these requirements seem confusing and contradictory. [read post]
6 May 2016, 11:45 am
In furtherance of its efforts to promote interest by qualified government or other entities, the Labor Department also has announced that the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration, along with the Women’s Bureau, will host a Prospective Applicant WebEx webinar on Thursday, May 12, at 2:00 p.m. [read post]
6 May 2016, 6:23 am
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which “said that 96 percent of the 227 commercial day-care centers and in-home providers that its auditors visited were found to be in violation of at least one state safety or health regulation. [read post]
5 May 2016, 7:45 am
It empowers consumers to transfer their digital data to different service providers. [read post]
4 May 2016, 10:00 pm
Jennifer Eisner, spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, said there hasn’t been an uptick in poison control reports or specific illnesses. [read post]
4 May 2016, 3:27 pm
The Department of Health and Human Services was the lead investigative agency for roughly half — 49.4 percent — of health care fraud prosecutions in FY 2016. [read post]
4 May 2016, 6:44 am
All states have regulations requiring health care providers to report cases of listeriosis and public health officials try to interview all persons with listeriosis promptly using a standard questionnaire about high risk foods. [read post]
3 May 2016, 10:01 pm
Mississippi did open a new $36 million public health laboratory in January, replacing a facility that went into service in 1959. [read post]
3 May 2016, 12:00 pm
Department of Health and Human Services, 70% of people who reach the age of 65 will need some form of long-term care. [read post]
3 May 2016, 5:13 am
The complaint was filed with the civil rights division of the Health and Human Services Department. ... [read post]
2 May 2016, 8:00 pm
In healthcare, we often see separate investigations initiated by the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) a state attorney general (AG) (or even multistate investigations by several AGs). [read post]
2 May 2016, 9:00 am
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), entered into a $750,000 settlement with a North Carolina orthopaedic clinic arising from the clinic’s disclosure of x-ray films and related protected health information of 17,300 patients to an entity that was engaged by the clinic to transfer x-ray images to electronic media. [read post]
2 May 2016, 4:54 am
In addition, S. 483 requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare a report on drug diversion and treatment, focusing on such issues as: obstacles to legitimate patient access to controlled substances; prevention of diversion of controlled substances; pain management and opioid prescribing clinical guidelines; state prescription drug monitoring programs; and prescription opioid reporting requirements. [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 6:25 am
An investigation is being launched by the state Department of Health and Human Services Division of Licensing and Regulatory Services, according to the Portland Press Herald. [read post]
27 Apr 2016, 9:01 am
Employer and other group health plan sponsors, fiduciaries and administrators and individual and group health insurers should confirm their plan documents and practices comply with new additional guidance on when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) preventive care mandates set forth in Public Health Services (PHS) Act section 2713, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) require… [read post]
27 Apr 2016, 9:01 am
Employer and other group health plan sponsors, fiduciaries and administrators and individual and group health insurers should confirm their plan documents and practices comply with new additional guidance on when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) preventive care mandates set forth in Public Health Services (PHS) Act section 2713, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) require… [read post]
26 Apr 2016, 11:28 pm
All the other government departments and entities commit to enforcing or coordinating the enforcement of the penalty measures through their regulatory systems to reporting to the NDRC and SPC quarterly through the social credit platform. [read post]
26 Apr 2016, 11:38 am
Physicians, hospitals and other health care providers, health plans and health care clearinghouses (Covered Entities) and their business associates should review and tighten policies for allowing members of the media and even other staff, patients or visitors in their facilities not involved in patient care to film, photograph or otherwise observe a patient without that patient’s authorization in light of the Department of Health &… [read post]
24 Apr 2016, 8:54 pm
The Department of Health and Human Services said New York-Presbyterian Hospital allowed the crew from ABC shooting “NY Med” film a patient who was dying and film another patient in significant distress. [read post]
22 Apr 2016, 8:17 pm
The New York Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical Center recently settled a 2.2 million lawsuit with the Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for allowing a TV crew to film two patients without their consent (see press release). [read post]
