HHS Proposes $9 Billion Lump Sum Payment for Hospitals to Remedy Unlawful...
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...
View ArticlePennsylvania Hospitals Can Now Resume Elective Surgeries and Procedures
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...
View ArticleCMS Issues Blanket Waivers for Long-Term Care Facilities, SNFs and NFs
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...
View ArticleCMS Issues Recommendations to Reopen Health Care Systems in Areas with Low...
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...
View ArticleCMS Announces Enhanced Nursing Home Reporting Requirements
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...
View ArticleCMS Releases Details on $30 Billion Payment to Hospitals and other Health...
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...
View ArticleCMS Releases Details on $30 Billion Payment to Hospitals and other Health...
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...
View ArticleOCR Releases Notification of Enforcement Discretion at COVID-19...
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...
View ArticleFirst $30 Billion to be Immediately Distributed to Hospitals, Other Health...
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...
View ArticleOCR Loosens Restrictions on Business Associates in Response to the COVID-19...
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...
View ArticleHHS Issues EMTALA Waivers As a Result of the COVID-19 Pandemic
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...
View ArticleHIPAA and COVID-19: Balancing Public Health Concerns and Patient Privacy in...
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...
View ArticleGoogle Partners With Ascension To Store And Analyze Millions Of Patient...
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...
View ArticleHospitals Will Need Psychiatrists And Mental Health Professionals To Satisfy...
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...
View ArticleFTC Overturns ALJ’s LabMD Decision and Reasserts its Role as a Data Security...
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...
View ArticleOCR Announces New HIPAA Guidance on Ransomware
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...
View ArticleHeads-Up! HIPAA Phase Two Audits Begin – Business Associates Included!
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) finally announced on March 21 that it is ready to begin Phase Two of its HIPAA audit program, which will include business...
View ArticleOCR Announces Two Significant HIPAA Breach Settlements
On consecutive days, the Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently announced two large HIPAA breach settlements. On March 16, 2016, OCR announced...
View ArticleGun Control and HIPAA
In the wake of recent gun violence and in a concerted effort to protect public safety, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule published in the Federal Register January...
View ArticleFTC Loses in LabMD Data Security Case: ALJ Sets High Bar for Consumer Harm
On November 13, 2015, an administrative law judge (“ALJ”) ruled against the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in its high-profile data security case against LabMD. The ALJ ruled that the FTC had failed...
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