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3 Aug 2016, 8:05 am
The sole exception appears to be where the applicant is close to dying and there is insufficient care available in the returning country to enable the applicant to die with dignity: N v Secretary of State for Home Department [2005] UKHL 31; [2005] 2 AC 296 and N v UK (2008) 47 EHRR 885. [read post]
28 Jul 2016, 9:30 pm
IN THE NEWS In a move that sets the stage for the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft, the EPA issued a formal finding that emissions from certain types of aircraft engines, primarily those used on large commercial jets, endanger human health and the environment—a step that was praised by members of the environmental community, who also urged the EPA to move forward on regulations. [read post]
25 Jul 2016, 4:09 pm
Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) today announced two cooperative agreement funding opportunities for an Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (ISAO) for the Healthcare and Public Health sector. [read post]
7 Jul 2016, 9:30 pm
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to oversee mental health and substance abuse The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a ruling that held that the limit on robocalls imposed on private sector businesses by the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) does not apply to the government. [read post]
1 Jul 2016, 1:49 pm
David Michaels, assistant secretary of labor of Occupational Safety and Health. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 7:03 am
On June 22, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced nationwide operations involving charges against a record 301 persons for federal health care program fraud. [read post]
15 Jun 2016, 5:50 am
While the HIPAA Privacy Rule is not automatically suspended during a national or public health emergency, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may waive certain provisions of HIPAA under the Project Bioshield Act of 2004 (PL 108-276) and section 1135(b)(7) of the Social Security Act. [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 8:17 am
On March 30, 2016, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a proposed rule to expand access to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) by allowing certain eligible practitioners to treat up to 200 patients, as authorized under the Controlled Substances Act. [read post]
24 May 2016, 9:46 am
Department of Health and Human Resources (HHS) to recover payments it made to Medicare, having previously refunded the payments to Medicare based on Medicare’s notice of overpayment. [read post]
24 May 2016, 9:46 am
Department of Health and Human Resources (HHS) to recover payments it made to Medicare, having previously refunded the payments to Medicare based on Medicare’s notice of overpayment. [read post]
18 May 2016, 4:30 am
Department of Health and Human Services, Sylvia Burwell, and that is why she is listed as the defendant in the case that subsequently went before a federal judge.The first decision for that federal judge was whether or how much to defer to the HHS Appeals Council. [read post]
17 May 2016, 9:06 am
Long before the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) drafted regulations implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Catholic bishops and their allies lobbied that all and any organizations and individuals with moral objections to contraception must be completely exempt from the insurance requirement. [read post]
6 May 2016, 11:45 am
On May 5. 2016, Department of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez announced the Department’s Woman’s Bureau is making available $1 million in grant funds for use in helping states, U.S. territories and possessions, counties and cities with at least 50,000 residents, and federally recognized Indian/Native American tribes with a population of at least 10,000 to fund the cost of developing and implementing paid family and medical leave programs at a roundtable… [read post]
5 May 2016, 7:45 am
It empowers consumers to transfer their digital data to different service providers. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 10:04 pm
Essentially, the DEA’s April 4, 2016, letter (also signed by the HHS secretary and White House director of national drug policy) to Senator Elizabeth Warren (see more on her website here) says that it expects in the first half of 2016 to decide whether to reschedule marijuana to Schedule I, after taking into considerations recommendations from such agencies as the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human… [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 9:35 pm
By Donald Zuhn -- On March 28, 2016, a dozen members of Congress sent a letter to Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Dr. [read post]
30 Mar 2016, 9:00 am
On March 28, Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken, Patrick Leahy, Sheldon Whitehouse and Amy Klobuchar joined the leaders of the House Democratic Task Force on Prescription Drug Pricing urging Burwell and Collins to hold a meeting "to allow the public to engage in a dialogue with the Department of Health and Human Services and NIH in order to better understand its position on the use of march-in rights to address excessive prices. [read post]
29 Mar 2016, 7:55 am
HEAT, a partnership between the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General, focuses primarily on reducing and preventing fraud against Medicare and Medicaid. [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 2:35 pm
Top White House aides and two secretaries of the Department of Health and Human Services have attended the Court’s ACA-related cases in recent years. [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 2:04 pm
The following are highlights of the recommendations for 2017 (some of which were recommended previously): Congress should direct the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to increase inpatient and outpatient hospital payments by the amount specified in current law (MedPAC projects that to be a 1.75% increase). [read post]
