OCR Announces New HIPAA Guidance on Ransomware

July 14, 2016, 6:51 am

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In response to the increasing prevalence of ransomware cyber-attacks by hackers on electronic health information systems in hospitals and medical practices, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced on...
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FTC Overturns ALJ’s LabMD Decision and Reasserts its Role as a Data Security Enforcer

August 26, 2016, 9:08 am

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On July 29, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) reversed an FTC administrative law judge’s (“ALJ”) opinion which had ruled against the FTC, finding that the Commission had failed to show that LabMD’s conduct caused harm to...
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Hospitals Will Need Psychiatrists And Mental Health Professionals To Satisfy EMTALA

November 8, 2017, 5:20 am

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Hospitals that have emergency departments should call upon their “available resources” to screen and stabilize patients with mental health emergencies as required by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (“EMTALA”) according to recent...
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Google Partners With Ascension To Store And Analyze Millions Of Patient Health Records

November 20, 2019, 8:54 am

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Google has confirmed that it is working with Ascension, one of the nation’s largest health systems in a project that will involve the health data of millions of Americans. Google and Ascension have partnered in a project to store and analyze patient data with the intended goal of using Google’s artificial intelligence tools to enhance patient care and medical decision making....
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HIPAA and COVID-19: Balancing Public Health Concerns and Patient Privacy in the Midst of a Pandemic

March 13, 2020, 2:32 pm

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Although COVID-19 is not the first pandemic to hit the United States, the virus has thrown the country into uncharted territory as federal and state governments and agencies struggle to contain the virus’s quick-moving spread. As in past outbreaks, on February 3, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and…...
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HHS Issues EMTALA Waivers As a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic

March 19, 2020, 3:43 pm

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On March 13, 2020, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health And Human Services (HHS) issued a series of waivers pursuant to Section 1135 of the Social Security Act, following President Trump’s declaration that the COVID-19 pandemic constitutes a national emergency....
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OCR Loosens Restrictions on Business Associates in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

April 3, 2020, 10:17 am

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On April 2, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced, effective immediately, that it will exercise its enforcement discretion and will not impose penalties for violations of certain provisions of the HIPAA Privacy Rule against health care providers or their business associates for the good faith uses and disclosures of protected health information (PHI) by business associates for public health and health oversight activities...
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First $30 Billion to be Immediately Distributed to Hospitals, Other Health Care Providers

April 13, 2020, 2:52 pm

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Although no details of this process have been officially released, Seema Verma, administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced at Monday’s White House COVID-19 Task Force briefing that CMS will release an initial $30 billion distribution......
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OCR Releases Notification of Enforcement Discretion at COVID-19 Community-Based Testing Sites

April 15, 2020, 8:52 pm

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On April 9, the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services (OCR) released a notice of enforcement discretion to covered health care providers and their business associates that, during the COVID-19 public health emergency, OCR will not impose penalties for noncompliance with the regulatory requirements under the HIPAA rules in connection with the good faith participation in the operation of a COVID-19 Community-Based Testing Site(s) (CBTS)....
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CMS Releases Details on $30 Billion Payment to Hospitals and other Health Care Providers

April 15, 2020, 10:50 pm

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On Friday, April 10 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released details on the disbursement of $30 billion from the $100 billion health care provider relief fund in the CARES Act (the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund) slated for hospitals and other health care providers....
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CMS Releases Details on $30 Billion Payment to Hospitals and other Health Care Providers

April 15, 2020, 10:50 pm

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On Friday, April 10 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released details on the disbursement of $30 billion from the $100 billion health care provider relief fund in the CARES Act (the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund) slated for hospitals and other health care providers....
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CMS Announces Enhanced Nursing Home Reporting Requirements

April 21, 2020, 4:44 pm

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On April 19, CMS announced two new reporting requirements for nursing homes: first, nursing homes will now be required to inform, on an ongoing basis, residents, their families, and representatives of confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases in their facilities....
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CMS Issues Recommendations to Reopen Health Care Systems in Areas with Low Incidence of COVID-19

April 22, 2020, 2:49 pm

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Following federal guidelines announced last Thursday by President Donald Trump, states are moving to reopen in phases amid the coronavirus pandemic (federal guidelines). On Sunday, April 19, 2020, CMS also released updated recommendations for how hospital systems can begin to reopen as well (CMS guidance)....
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CMS Issues Blanket Waivers for Long-Term Care Facilities, SNFs and NFs

May 3, 2020, 7:05 pm

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Since the COVID-19 emergency declaration, CMS has issued a number of blanket waivers for health care providers, including nursing facilities (NFs) and skilled-nursing facilities (SNFs) retroactive to March 1, 2020, and effective through the end of the COVID-19-related emergency declaration. CMS has released a summary of these blanket waivers in a CMS guidance dated April 21, 2020 (the CMS guidance)....
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Pennsylvania Hospitals Can Now Resume Elective Surgeries and Procedures

May 3, 2020, 10:30 pm

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As announced by Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine on Monday, April 27, Pennsylvania hospitals can now begin to perform elective surgeries and procedures as long as they are able to do so without jeopardizing the safety of patients and staff or the hospital’s ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic....
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HHS Proposes $9 Billion Lump Sum Payment for Hospitals to Remedy Unlawful 340B Payment Reductions

July 11, 2023, 9:15 am

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On Friday, July 7, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published their long-awaited proposed remedy to the unlawful 340B drug payment reductions. Background: In 2018, CMS significantly reduced the Average Sales Price (ASP) plus six-percent (6%) formula for calculating 340B drug payments to ASP minus 22.5%. After conflicting decisions from the District of Columbia’s federal District and Appeals Courts, on June 15, 2022,......
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