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16 Dec 2010, 8:58 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
As part of ongoing efforts to prevent and fight health care fraud, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder today announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to acquire and new state-of-the-art predictive modeling fraud fighting analytic tools to prevent wasteful and fraudulent payments in Medicare, Medicaid and the… [read post]
28 Feb 2009, 6:54 pm
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius accepted President Obama's request to become his secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). [read post]
25 Oct 2009, 3:01 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama's Saturday emergency declaration [text, PDF; press release] on the H1N1 flu [CDC backgrounder] has granted Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) [official website] Secretary Kathleen Sebelius [official profile] authority under section 1135 of the Social Security Act [text] to allow medical providers to bypass federal regulations when it comes to treating [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 9:06 am by Jonathan Cohen
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama on Thursday ordered Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) [official website] Secretary Kathleen Sebelius [official profile] to expand the rights [memo] of patients and non-related visitors in hospitals that receive funding from Medicaid and Medicare [official websites]. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 12:00 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius visited Philadelphia, where they participated in the sixth regional health care fraud prevention summit. [read post]
4 Jan 2014, 8:16 pm by Walter Olson
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… [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 12:00 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Obama Administration releases National Prevention Strategy Yesterday, members of the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council, including Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin (Chair), as well as Senator Tom Harkin and Domestic Policy Council (DPC) Director Melody Barnes, announced the release of the National Prevention and… [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 7:34 am by JimWieland
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program (also known as the “Meaningful Use” program) will be delayed for one year for providers who attest during 2011. [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 12:50 pm by Steven Boutwell
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on December 15, 2009 the expansion of Medicare Fraud Strike Force teams to Baton Rouge, Brooklyn, Tampa in the fifth, sixth and seventh phases of a targeted criminal, civil and administrative effort against individuals and health care companies that fraudulently bill the Medicare program. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 11:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today invited insurance company chief executive officers to a March 3 meeting at HHS to discuss their companies' insurance premiums. [read post]
6 Feb 2011, 9:55 pm
Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made a self-congratulatory speech about how her department helped to get back billions of dollars from health care fraud, Glaxo's U.S. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 7:56 am by Todd Rodriguez
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Human Services, recently announced during a press conference that HHS will as of July 1, 2011 be rolling out a $77 million computer program designed to prospectively identify potentially fraudulent Medicare claims by collecting and analyzing patterns in large numbers of submitted claims. [read post]
21 May 2009, 4:58 pm
According to a press release, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder launched an interagency high-level task force to help detect and prevent health-care fraud, which robs the nation's coffers of billions of dollars each year. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 4:50 am
Department of Health and Human Services, the American Hospital Association has asked that the final medical loss ratio (MLR) rules under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act be changed. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 2:59 am
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius commended federal public health agencies Friday for "supporting the charge" of President Obama's Food Safety Working Group to improve the food safety system.The Food Safety Working Group, chaired by Vilsack and Sebelius, was launched by President Obama in March 2009 on the… [read post]
11 Jun 2009, 12:46 am
The Washington Post reported that on May 20, 2009, two federal government agencies (Department of Justice and Health and Human Services) launched a high-level task force to use technology to help detect and prevent health-care fraud. [read post]