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24 May 2023, 5:16 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
A newly announced Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) settlement agreement with a medical practice manager business associate highlights the need for health plans and other HIPAA covered entities ensure servers are properly secured and that that they and every third party administrator, technology, audit, accounting and other plan… [read post]
15 Sep 2023, 2:20 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
UHIC HIPAA Right Of Access Settlement The Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) recently announced health insurance giant UHIC agreed in a resolution agreement to pay $80,000 to resolve a potential violation HIPAA’s access provision that requires health plans, health care providers and health care clearinghouses (“covered entities”) to provide patients access their… [read post]
Awarding grants to states for establishing treatment alternatives to incarceration programs, which will require extensive collaboration between state criminal justice agencies and state substance abuse systems; examples include community-based substance use diversion programs, drug courts, mental health courts, and veterans treatment courts. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 2:59 am
Programmatic work is primarily focused in such areas as environmental health, health promotion and disease prevention; maternal and infant care, child, adolescent, school and family health services, mental health including substance abuse and addictions services; and general nursing and health services for the aging. [read post]
17 Mar 2024, 5:42 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) on March 13, 2023, alerts health plans and health insurers, their fiduciaries and plan sponsors, health care providers, health care clearinghouses, and their business associates (covered entities) against overlooking their own potential HIPAA responsibilities arising from the February 21 Choice Health attack or other similar events. [read post]
13 Jun 2018, 2:00 am by Kelly Creighton
Department of Health and Human Services says that 116 people died every day in 2016 from an opioid overdose, and over 2 million people had an opioid-use disorder. [read post]
13 Jun 2018, 2:00 am by Kelly Creighton
Department of Health and Human Services says that 116 people died every day in 2016 from an opioid overdose, and over 2 million people had an opioid-use disorder. [read post]
11 Feb 2018, 6:18 am by Nassiri Law
The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services in Connecticut is currently grappling with a flood of such accusations among its staff. [read post]
2 May 2012, 3:05 am by Ben Vernia
According to court documents, the defendants recruited beneficiaries from nursing homes and homeless shelters, some of whom were drug addicted or mentally ill, and provided them with no services or medically inappropriate services. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 11:50 am by Lori Howell
Most Texas juvenile prisoners have mental health problems CBS Some 52 percent of young people in Texas’ six youth prison facilities have moderate or high mental health treatment needs, the head of the state juvenile justice department says. [read post]
8 Jan 2024, 2:10 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Health plans, health care providers and health care clearinghouses (“Covered Entities”) treat the Department of Health and Human Service Office of Civil Right (“OCR”) announcement of its 46th enforcement action under the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) Right of Access Rule as a warning to confirm their own organization’s timely delivery of records and… [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 12:07 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
The city will also build a treatment facility where youth can receive education, mental health therapy and substance abuse counseling, among other services. [read post]
7 Mar 2024, 5:08 am by Jack Bogdanski
Climate resources must also be part of a member’s health need or treatment.The new climate-related benefits are part of Oregon’s federally funded expansion of OHP coverage to include health-related social needs (HRSN) services, which can help maintain health and well-being, but are not traditionally thought of as medical services.Can you imagine how much graft will be involved in this? [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 1:00 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
Health Insurance Wendy Mariner, Boston University School of Public Health, Health Promotion and the Social Construction of Fault Govind Persad, University of Denver College of Law, Health Insurance and the Value of Treatment Differentiation Tara Ragone, Seton Hall University School of Law, Mental Health Parity at 10 Katherine Vukadin, Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law, On Opioids and ERISA: The Urgent Case for a Federal… [read post]
11 Oct 2019, 9:05 pm by Milad Emamian
To prescribe buprenorphine—the gold standard of opioid-addiction care when used with therapy—providers in the United States need a waiver from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. [read post]
24 Oct 2008, 12:58 pm
If the defendant is a veteran and has been diagnosed as having a mental illness, the court may consult with the federal or state Department of Veterans Affairs to determine treatment options in lieu of or along with a jail sentence.Veterans have done a lot for us and deserve our help when they have adjustment troubles when they return. [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 5:39 pm
… … Most veterans who were affected were women, with more than one in seven women seeking health care services of some sort also reporting sexual trauma. [read post]