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11 Nov 2014, 8:50 am
The recent Ebola outbreak has prompted the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”), the agency responsible for enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), to release a new bulletin for covered entities and business associates regarding their privacy obligations in emergency situations. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 8:42 am
A state court may look to standards applied by the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), or some other federal agency asserting jurisdiction over privacy and data security matters, and decide whether the applicable standard or standards are preempted by state law. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 3:47 pm
Human resources and other management leaders are watching Washington to see if the change in Congressional control resulting from the November 4, 2014 mid-term election ushers in a more management friendly federal legal environment. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 2:36 pm
Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a bulletin that serves as a reminder that HIPAA privacy regulations generally apply in emergency situations.Specifically, OCR notes that the bulletin (1) addresses the ways in which patient information may be shared under the HIPAA Privacy Rule in an emergency situation and (2) serves as a reminder that the protections of the HIPAA Privacy Rule are not set aside during an emergency. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 2:36 pm
Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a bulletin that serves as a reminder that HIPAA privacy regulations generally apply in emergency situations.Specifically, OCR notes that the bulletin (1) addresses the ways in which patient information may be shared under the HIPAA Privacy Rule in an emergency situation and (2) serves as a reminder that the protections of the HIPAA Privacy Rule are not set aside during an emergency. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 10:38 am
The FAQs were jointly prepared by DOL, and the Health and Human Services and Treasury departments. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 6:45 am
The Department of Health and Human Services responded: the fact that a state law allows an individual to file [a civil action] to protect privacy does not conflict with the HIPAA penalty provisions (While the Department’s view is not binding, the Court noted that “[w]here an agency has authoritatively interpreted its own rule, courts generally defer to that reading unless it is plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 3:25 am
Levinson, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, found that only one in seven mistakes or injuries involving Medicare patients are actually reported by hospital staff, even though reporting events that cause patients harm is a requirement of receiving Medicare payments. [read post]
9 Nov 2014, 11:02 pm
Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service — are responsible for testing the U.S. food supply for pesticide residues. [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 9:48 am
The IRS’s interpretation accomplishes that goal: Section 1401 can still be read literally because the section that authorizes the federal exchanges, Section 1321, provides that if a state does not establish an exchange under Section 1311, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “shall . . . establish and operate such Exchange within the State. [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 9:42 am
Department of Health and Human Services, out of the 145 medical schools in the U.S., only 11 have a geriatric department. [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 6:09 pm
plan administrators and other services providers, and governments on health care, retirement, employment, insurance, and tax program design, administration, defense and policy. [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 4:49 pm
Employer and other sponsors, insurers and administrators of non-grandfathered group health plans that pay a fixed amount for a particular procedure (for example, a knee replacement) where network providers have agreed to accept that referenced amount as payment in full (“reference-based pricing”) should verify their use of these practices complies in design and administration with the additional guidance on the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (ACA) out-of-pocket… [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 3:15 pm
Under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Health and Human Services requires employers to provide health insurance plans making contraception available to their female employees at no cost. [read post]
Will the Real Evidence-Based Ebola Policy Please Stand Up? Seven Takeaways From Maine DHHS v. Hickox
6 Nov 2014, 8:44 am
The case I mentioned in my last post, Maine Department of Health and Human Services v. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 11:45 am
Well, you're in luck:"According to the Department of Health and Human Services, foreign diplomats... are eligible to participate in an array of medical programs administered by the federal government, including participation in Health Insurance Marketplaces. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 11:01 am
Department of Health and Human Services addressed whether covered entities have a “duty to warn” individuals that agree to receive unencrypted emails as a means of communication in the Omnibus Rule adoption: “We clarify that covered entities are permitted to send individuals unencrypted emails if they have advised the individual of the risk, and the individual still prefers the unencrypted email. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 4:50 am
On Friday, October 31, 2014, the Internal Revenue Service announced that the new 2015 health plan flexible spending account limit will rise from $2,500 to $2,550. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 4:54 pm
Plans Must Provide “Substantial Coverage” for Both In-Patient Hospitalization & Physician Services To Provide Minimum Value Notice 2014-69 makes it official that the Department of Treasury (including the IRS) and Department of Health and Human Services (collectively the Departments) believe that group health plans that fail to provide substantial coverage for in-patient hospitalization services or… [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 8:11 am
The reason is that these are new issues and the regulators are confronting them sometimes for the first time as well, whether it is a state Attorney General, the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Health and Human Services, or a state health department. [read post]
