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19 Apr 2011, 2:55 am
The Board’s recommendations would become law unless the House and Senate both pass a resolution to block them, which would require a three-fifths majority to pass in each chamber.With regard to Medicaid, the President was critical of the House GOP plan to turn it into a block grant program, and instead advocated a single federal matching rate for all Medicaid spending that would increase automatically should enrollment rise to due a recession.HHS LAUNCHES NEW “PARTNERSHIP FOR… [read post]
17 Apr 2011, 6:38 pm
" Imagine that Congress enacted a rider stating that "the Secretary of Health & Human Services shall expend no monies responding to any Presidential request for his or her opinion, in writing, upon the subject of health reform": Would not such a rider obviously violate Article II? [read post]
17 Apr 2011, 2:10 pm
The Minnesota Department of Human Services has been ordered to pay $467,000 to resolve age-discrimination claims filed on behalf of 29 individuals who were turned down for employer contributions for retiree health and dental insurance. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 11:11 am
Stamer regularly represents and defends plan sponsors, fiduciaries, third party administrators and other service providers and management officials in dealings with the Department of Labor, Department of Justice, Department of Health & Human Services, Department of Defense, Securities and Exchange Commission, state insurance regulators, state attorneys general and other federal and state regulators and prosecutors and… [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 5:38 am
InterMune also entered into a five-year Corporate Integrity Agreement with the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 10:55 pm
As we posted earlier this week, US State department has released its 35th annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, including an in-depth analysis of human rights in the UK. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 3:42 pm
With a goal of reducing preventable conditions by 40 percent over three years, the Department of Health and Human Services plans to spend up to $1 billion made available by the 2010 health care law to improve patient safety at hospitals and avoid costly readmissions. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 9:34 am
HITECH expanded the authority of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to impose civil monetary penalties on “covered entities” and “business associates” that violate HIPAA privacy and security standards. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 8:27 am
One example of the problem is evidenced in a recent US Department of Health and Human Services audit, where the Inspector General examined one State’s ability to monitor Stimulus funds dispensed under the federal Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) program. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 1:05 pm
The administration isn’t offering those sorts of details, but this week it proudly announced that it has allocated the first half—$500 million—of the funding for the innovative project (Partnership for Patients) that will end up saving $50 billion in healthcare costs, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 12:55 pm
Department of State, Washington, DC 20520; phone: 202-736-7000, FAX: 202-647-2835.) [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 11:02 am
Obamacare), the law charged the Department of Health and Human Services with the creation of a website to aide Americans about the health insurance coverage options available to them. [read post]
10 Apr 2011, 9:18 pm
" In related news, the US Department of Health and Human Services recently launched a new on-line tool to help patients choose and compare different health care facilities. [read post]
9 Apr 2011, 9:40 pm
This week the US State Department released its reports on human rights in 2010, including this report on Ireland. [read post]
8 Apr 2011, 5:33 pm
Social service agencies, such as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would continue many functions that involve the protection of human life, can draw upon carryover funds, or have sources of funding other than annual appropriations. [read post]
6 Apr 2011, 1:51 pm
” He proposed what he called a “third way solution” of increased patient safety programs, such as the Department of Human Services’ Patient Safety and Medical Liability initiative, which made $25 million available for planning and demonstration grants to test models for patient safety, foster better communication between doctors and patients, and achieve medical liability reform. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 2:02 pm
Department of Health and Human Services), estimated 27 million adults in the USA have back problems and spend $30 billion annually on medical treatments including physical therapy, pain management, chiropractor visits, other non-invasive therapies and spine surgeries. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 12:48 pm
In March, 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued its “Compendium of Unimplemented Recommendations”. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 7:38 am
Breyer gives great weight to the views of health experts and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that a contrary result in this case would threaten this goal. [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 6:00 am
As a step in implementing the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed a rule that would form accountable care organizations (ACOs), which are groups of doctors and hospitals that manage the medical care of assigned groups of elderly citizens on Medicare. [read post]
