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“ Last month, the district court found that the orders from the CDC and the HHS were arbitrary and capricious and not rationally related to their stated purpose. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 5:58 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Justice Department announced the launch of a new nationwide Law Enforcement Language Access Initiative (“LEP Initiative”) to help law enforcement agencies meet obligations to provide meaningful language assistance to limited English proficient (LEP) individuals along with driving home it’s commitment to enforce these LEP obligations by announcing a LEP investigation resolution with the Denver Police Department. [read post]
Most recently, on Friday, December 9, the Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) of the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) signed a memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) “to better protect health care consumers and workers from collusion, ensure compliance with laws enforced by OIG and the Antitrust Division, and promote competitive health care markets. [read post]
19 Dec 2022, 10:08 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  While helping businesses define and manage the conduct and performance of their employees, contractors and vendors, she also assists employers and others about compliance with federal and state equal employment opportunity, compensation, health and other employee benefit, workplace safety, leave, and other labor and employment laws, advises and defends businesses against labor and employment, employee benefit, compensation, fraud and other regulatory compliance and other related audits,… [read post]
17 Dec 2022, 9:05 pm by Guest Author
Becerra, the Court concluded that “after employing the traditional tools of statutory interpretation, we do not agree with HHS’s interpretation of the statute. [read post]
Providing breach notification to affected individuals, the Secretary of HHS, and the media (when applicable) of an impermissible disclosure of PHI to a Tracking Technology vendor that compromises the security or privacy of PHI when there is no Privacy Rule requirement or permission to disclose PHI and there is no BAA with the vendor. [read post]
16 Dec 2022, 12:39 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  While helping businesses define and manage the conduct and performance of their employees, contractors and vendors, she also assists employers and others about compliance with federal and state equal employment opportunity, compensation, health and other employee benefit, workplace safety, leave, and other labor and employment laws, advises and defends businesses against labor and employment, employee benefit, compensation, fraud and other regulatory compliance and other related audits,… [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 5:56 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  While helping businesses define and manage the conduct and performance of their employees, contractors and vendors, she also assists employers and others about compliance with federal and state equal employment opportunity, compensation, health and other employee benefit, workplace safety, leave, and other labor and employment laws, advises and defends businesses against labor and employment, employee benefit, compensation, fraud and other regulatory compliance and other related audits,… [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 4:50 pm by Ben Vernia
Attorneys’ Offices for the Eastern District of Texas, District of New Jersey, and District of South Carolina, with assistance from HHS-OIG and DCIS. [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 12:45 pm by Jeff
, HHS has issued a settlement with a dental practice that doesn't involve access. [read post]
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Bulletin to highlight the obligations of HIPAA-covered entities and business associates when using “online tracking technologies,” or what OCR describes as “script or code on a website or mobile app used to gather information about users as they interact with the website or mobile app,” which is then analyzed by website owners, app operators or third parties to create user profiles or garner insights into… [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 6:52 pm by Kurt R. Karst
  It similarly is out of step with HHS initiatives aimed at expanding telehealth to enable direct to consumer care (see here). [read post]
In a new post on the Covington Digital Health blog, our colleagues discuss recently issued proposed rule to implement statutory amendments enacted by Section 3221 of the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”). [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 10:17 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A settlement agreement with trucking company with Navajo Express announced by the Justice Department (“DOJ”) today a warns other businesses to use care when dealing with non-citizen applicants and workers to avoid violating the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) while concurrently complying with federal mandates to verify eligibility of each worker to work in the United States. [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 5:00 am by Wachler & Associates, P.C.
CMS, its contractors, and other federal agencies, such as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG), have used statistical extrapolation against Medicare providers for decades, while strong opposition from the insurance industry has kept it from being applied to audits of MA plans. [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Suit was filed yesterday in a Texas federal district court challenging a rule adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services that prohibits adoption and foster care agencies receiving federal funds from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. [read post]
12 Dec 2022, 10:57 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Congress gave HHS authority to issue rules adjusting the type size, format, color graphics, and text of any label requirements “if the Secretary finds that such a change would promote greater public understanding of the risks associated with the use of tobacco products. [read post]
12 Dec 2022, 7:16 am by Allan Blutstein
HHS began processing [plaintiff’s] requests before he filed his complaint, and any delays by HHS were fairly attributable to the scope of [plaintiff’s] requests and a substantial backlog of other FOIA requests. [read post]