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19 Oct 2010, 8:03 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is conducting a Confidentiality and Privacy Issues Related to Psychological Testing Data study, in close cooperation with the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) pursuant to section 13424 of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, a component of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) (P.L. 111-5). [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 12:00 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Department of Health and Human Services, I'm Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat. [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 9:07 am
"This is an announcement (from Anthem) about the upcoming Special Election Period (no, not that election - although it's relevant); HHS Secretary Shecantbeserious has ordained this unique opportunity for folks being booted from their preferred plans.This "special" opportunity actually began a few weeks ago (on October 1st), and extends through the end of the year.Which is convenient for those unfortunate seniors who actually believed DC. [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 5:17 am by Walter Olson
GAO: HHS acted in “unusual” way when it muzzled health plans on ObamaCare costs [Cannon/Cato-at-Liberty, earlier] “Trial Opens for Adoption Attorney Accused of Stealing From Clients” [NYLJ] U.K.: A “human right” to have someone prosecuted? [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 5:36 pm
Once again, HHS Secretary Shecantbeserious has proven herself to be quite fangless in her efforts to cajole insurers into artificially suppressing rates:"[Connecticut]'s largest insurer has been approved to raise health premium rates by 41 percent to 47 percent for some of its policies sold to individual buyers... [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 6:49 am by McNabb Ferrari, P.C.
Seven additional Houston-area residents who allegedly served as patient recruiters and a nurse have been charged for their alleged participation in a $5 million Medicare home health care fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Friday. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 6:49 am by McNabb Ferrari, P.C.
Seven additional Houston-area residents who allegedly served as patient recruiters and a nurse have been charged for their alleged participation in a $5 million Medicare home health care fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Friday. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 6:36 am by Holly Hayes
HHS, through its Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, awarded $25 million in grants for several patient safety and medical liability demonstration projects, with $2 million awarded to JBA/Rand to evaluate the findings from these projects and develop evidence to guide long-term solutions to current liability problems. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 3:13 am by Bob Kraft
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently ran an important story about the reporting of hospital errors, and the reasons why the Washington law requiring this reporting is inadequate. [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 11:56 am by Jason Greis
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of HHS, to establish a protocol for healthcare providers and suppliers to disclose actual or potential violations of Section 1877 of the Social Security Act (Stark Act). [read post]
16 Oct 2010, 5:28 am by Ted Frank
HHS] As always, the Federalist Society National Convention has some remarkable panels. [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 9:19 am by Elder Law
Table of Contents October Is Domestic Violence Awareness Month AoA News Population Data on Older Hispanic Adults Featured in AoA’s October Widget Other HHS News CMS Awards Grants to Six States to Combat Abuse and Neglect in Long Term Care... [read post]
15 Oct 2010, 3:17 am by Bob Kraft
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently ran an important story about the reporting of hospital errors, and the reasons why the Washington law requiring this reporting is inadequate. [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 11:03 am by Abigail Moncrieff
  Instead, it adds some national oversight authority in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) without abolishing state authority, creating further fragmentation and jurisdictional overlap. [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 5:52 am by Carlos Leyva
You can rest assured that HHS, under the authority of the HITECH Act, will choose to make an example of organizations that engage in the egregious behavior such as what allegedly occurred in this case. [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 12:00 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
HHS announces a major new investment in community health centers More than $727 million in grants from the Affordable Care Act  to upgrade and expand community health centers Funds will provide care for an additional 745,000 underserved patients HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently announced awards of $727 million to 143 community health centers across the country to address pressing construction and renovation needs and expand access to quality health care. [read post]