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31 Mar 2014, 2:09 pm
The President's nominee as new USCIS Director, Leon Rodriguez, a seasoned federal prosecutor and Director of the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services, may be recommended on April 3 in an Executive Business Meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee. [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 10:09 am
The President’s nominee as new USCIS Director, Leon Rodriguez, a seasoned federal prosecutor and Director of the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services, may be recommended on April 3 in an Executive Business Meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee. [read post]
25 Mar 2014, 8:35 am
<> Barnes & Thornburg's Due-Diligence Mini-Series - Next webinar: April 10; US EPA's All Appropriate Inquiry (AAI) regulatory updates and how it impacts use of Phase I ESA standards <> Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on National Agriculture Day - March 25, 2014—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today released the following statement. . . [read post]
17 Mar 2014, 10:03 pm
Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday, asking him to suspend action on the proposed Modernization of Poultry Slaughter Inspection rule, which is based on the HACCP-Based Inspection Models Project (HIMP). [read post]
11 Mar 2014, 9:06 am
Most notably, the bill would require the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to consult with interested stakeholders - such as hospitals, physicians, Medicare administrative contractors, recovery audit contractors, and other parties determined appropriate by the Secretary - to determine the criteria for short inpatient stays. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 8:41 am
EPA is initiating an external peer review of the agency's draft human health effects documents for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS). [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 5:04 am
Major Program Integrity/Efficiency Provisions Expand funding for the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC) program, the Medicaid Integrity Program, and Medicaid Fraud Control Units, and other Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) program integrity efforts. [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 6:24 pm
“We’ve cracked down on tens of thousands of healthcare providers suspected of Medicare fraud,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who was the other major Cabinet officer at Wednesday’s press conference. [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 11:23 am
The FDCA confers “complete discretion” on the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to enforce the FDCA’s provisions. [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 8:25 am
Boxer (D-CA) and Whitehouse (D-RI) Call For KXL Health Risks Study - Senators are calling on Secretary of State John Kerry and the Obama Administration to analyze the public health risks to communities from the proposed Keystone pipeline. [read post]
23 Feb 2014, 6:36 am
An additional condition of the settlement requires EndoGastric to enter into a Corporate Integrity Agreement, a plan to implement reviews and procedures intended to prevent similar incidents, with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Officer of Inspector General. [read post]
31 Jan 2014, 8:14 am
<> Launching scientific advisory board, Ban urges bridging gap between science, policy - 30 January – The United Nations must use science and technology to strengthen its policy-making on sustainable development, reducing inequality and eradicating extreme poverty, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today said launching his advisory board of scientists. [read post]
28 Jan 2014, 8:33 am
<> Groundbreaking Legal Agreement to End Use of Toxic Flame Retardant in Foam Furniture and Children's Products - The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) announced groundbreaking legal agreements that for the first time aim for an end to the use of harmful flame retardant chemicals in foam furniture and children's foam products from major companies. [read post]
25 Jan 2014, 3:40 am
Illinois Department of Human Services Secretary Michelle Saddler agreed, saying the incoming applications will "create major problems" and that her agency, which processes the applications, had "a gargantuan task ahead of us." [read post]
20 Jan 2014, 5:00 pm
Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (DOL) illustrates why U.S. businesses providing goods and services directly or as subcontractors to the federal government should use care to properly compensate workers and comply with other requirements applicable to government contractors. [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 8:49 am
Signed into law the day before Thanksgiving, this humane, cost-effective, common sense outcome gave us all something to cheer. [read post]
4 Jan 2014, 8:16 pm
Among his nominations: the “Agriculture Department, which cited privacy grounds in refusing to name any of the beneficiaries of the notoriously fraud-ridden ‘Pigford‘ settlement”; Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who imposed millions of dollars in fines on private health companies for lacking adequate technical controls on the privacy of health data, “even when there was no evidence… [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 10:45 pm
In 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the creation of an interagency task force, the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), to increase coordination and optimize criminal and civil enforcement. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 7:37 am
Here are the results: Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was voted Privacy Hypocrite of the Year for imposing harsh penalties on private companies whose systems for handling personal health data had security weaknesses — the same kind of weaknesses that HHS ignored when it rolled out the deeply flawed healthcare.gov site. [read post]
1 Jan 2014, 10:04 am
Privacy Hypocrite of the Year Kathleen Sebelius, US Secretary of Health and Human Services 49% Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights, and Citizenship 24% Francois Hollande, President of France 15% James Sensenbrenner, U.S. [read post]
