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10 Nov 2011, 10:45 am
An agency from the Department of Health and Human Services has restored the public use database to the National Practitioners Data Bank, two months after removing the data amid concerns of inappropriate usage. [read post]
30 Dec 2009, 2:38 pm
(See a posthumously published essay on Health Care as a Basic Human Right: Moving From Lip Service to Reality by the late Senator Edward Kennedy here.) [read post]
20 Jun 2012, 10:33 am
Health care providers and other interested persons have until to submit recommendations and other input in response to the Solicitation of Information and Recommendations for Revising OIG’s Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol (“RFR”) published by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) on June 20, 2012 here. [read post]
29 Sep 2007, 5:08 pm
A recent report by the Department of Health & Human Services reveals that in the Access to Recovery voucher program, 31% of clinical treatment services and 22% of recovery support services have been furnished by faith-based organizations. [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 8:57 am
We wrote about the decision from the US Department of Health and Human Service to impose such a requirement on television ads here, and we wrote here about last year’s determination of a federal District Court throwing out the requirement, finding that HHS had no statutory authority to impose that requirement. [read post]
13 Apr 2012, 8:16 am
On April 12, 2012, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published an updated list of excluded providers, persons and entities from Medicare, Medicaid and other Federal health care programs, known as the List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE). [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 1:35 pm
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the national association of health insurers, calling on their members to stop using scare tactics and misinformation to falsely blame premium increases for 2011 on the patient protections in the Affordable Care Act.... [read post]
25 Mar 2020, 1:34 pm
Among the changes instituted by HHS are expanded Medicare coverage and payment for services, reduced or waived cost-sharing obligations for physicians, and loosening of the HIPAA enforcement policies for covered entities (which can now use any non-public facing platform, e.g. [read post]
6 Mar 2014, 3:10 pm
Third party administrators (TPAs), self-insured health plans and concerned payers and plan sponsors now have a little more time to comment on the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) proposed rule, “Administrative Simplification: Health Plan Certification of Compliance. [read post]
7 Dec 2023, 5:00 am
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently entered into a first of its kind resolution agreement and corrective action plan to settle potential HIPAA violations arising out of a ransomware attack. [read post]
16 Sep 2009, 7:10 pm
Department of Health and Human Services, that’s about 70 percent of us. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 10:00 am
., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 14, 2015, Ann Maxwell, Assistant Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspections of the Office of Inspector General (OIG), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), gave testimony to Congress on the Medicare Part D Program. [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 10:00 am
., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issues investigative subpoenas through the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). [read post]
19 Feb 2016, 9:00 am
Circuit ordered the US District Court for the District of Columbia to reconsider a lawsuit seeking to compel the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to meet statutory deadlines for reviewing Medicare claims denials. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 10:00 pm
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released Advisory Opinion No. 23-04, which found that fraud and abuse risks were sufficiently low in light of certain safeguards to avoid a “negative” opinion regarding online healthcare directories accessible to Federal health care program (FHCP) beneficiaries. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 10:00 am
., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 14, 2015, Ann Maxwell, Assistant Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspections of the Office of Inspector General (OIG), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), gave testimony to Congress on the Medicare Part D Program. [read post]
23 Apr 2023, 10:00 pm
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and related public health emergency (PHE), the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued four Notifications of Enforcement Discretion (referred to as “waivers”) designed to offer flexibility to healthcare providers battling the virus. [read post]
9 May 2023, 10:00 pm
The PHE declaration, which first was issued by the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on January 31, 2020, and subsequently renewed several times, provided the basis for numerous flexibilities upon which the healthcare and life sciences industries have relied to furnish patient care during the pandemic. [read post]
9 Nov 2012, 9:00 am
., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has reportedly launched an investigation into CVS’ practice for refilling prescriptions. [read post]
10 Aug 2023, 10:00 pm
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released Advisory Opinion No. 23-04, which found that fraud and abuse risks were sufficiently low in light of certain safeguards to avoid a “negative” opinion regarding online healthcare directories accessible to Federal health care program (FHCP) beneficiaries. [read post]
