Compliance Now

JUNE 28, 2023

By: Megan Diehl, MZQ Consulting Late last week, the IRS published additional guidance modifying the COVID-19 coverage that high deductible health plans (HDHPs) can provide while maintaining their HSA-qualified status. Of note, this recent guidance has no impact on COVID-19 vaccinations, which still qualify as preventive care.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, now entering its fourth year in 2023, legislators, executives, and judges at every level of government have sought measures to derail efficacious public health interventions. And most relate solely to COVID-19 interventions, which sunset permanently as states withdraw their emergencies.

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Health Law Attorney

MARCH 16, 2022

In an effort to combat the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), the Dept. The HRSA began processing claims submitted to the Uninsured Program on February 4, 2020. In its notice, the HRSA specified that the Uninsured Program would stop accepting claims for testing, treatment, and vaccination on two separate dates.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 6, 2022

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is currently embroiled in a dispute over the ownership of patent rights to Moderna’s flagship mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273). If so, NIH, their employer, would be a co-owner of the vaccine technology and could, in theory, make it more broadly available around the world.

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Outside of the claims, One Medical’s financial results for both the fourth quarter and full year of 2020 improved year-over-year. .

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Health Law Pulse

JANUARY 21, 2022

On January 22, 2020, we shared news from the CDC that confirmed the United States identified its first infection in the country and authorities began scrambling to prepare. The post COVID-19 Update: More Reflections on a Pandemic appeared first on Health Law Pulse.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 11, 2023

The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced that he does not plan to renew the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, which is due to expire on May 11, 2023. The post HHS Secretary Will Not Renew COVID-19 PHE: HIPAA Enforcement Discretion to End on May 11, 2023 appeared first on HIPAA Journal.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

In April 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued a report featuring evidence that in the month of March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic was not an equal-opportunity killer. The rate of vaccinations against the coronavirus, too, significantly varied by race and ethnicity as of March 11, 2021. In the U.S., population).

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped consumers for work, school, fitness, cooking, and certainly for health care. Younger Americans prefer retail health settings for vaccines: retail clinics, urgent care sites, or retail pharmacies. adults in April 2020, 2,501 iu May, and 2,511 in September. preferring the medical office.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised unprecedented challenges for the global health framework and its long-term consequences are not yet in full sight. It is not yet clear why the EC, which was summoned on 22 and 23 January 2020, decided that it was “too early to declare a PHEIC.” By Ilja Richard Pavone.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Eduardo Arenas Catalán The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the Principles), entail a notable attempt to consolidate lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic. by requiring barriers like intellectual property to be human rights compliant; Principle 27.2(a),

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

In particular, we look at vaccine distribution as a medication adherence problem, the important role of finance reform, and much more. Talking points: How 2020 changed healthcare. How the COVID-19 telehealth boom has and hasn’t affected asynchronous virtual care. The importance of continued federal COVID-19 relief.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Catholic Health Association (CHA) is urging Americans to “love thy neighbor” by getting the COVID-19 vaccine, Sister Mary Haddad wrote in an editorial published in Modern Healthcare, published on September 3, 2011. who have been anti-vaccine in the COVID era. Sister Mary is CEO and President of CHA.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

What You Should Know: Labcorp announced that it is offering an observed collection of COVID-19 PCR testing in over 500 patient service centers nationwide. In addition, Labcorp COVID-19 PCR tests may be conducted at doctors’ offices, hospitals and health systems, urgent care facilities and many drive-thru testing sites.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

More than 591 million EU Digital COVID Certificates (EUDCC) have now been generated, according to a European Commission report published today. The certificate, which covers COVID-19 vaccination, test and recovery, aims to facilitate safe travel for citizens in Europe. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

might be finally turning a corner in the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, the COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted the importance of data analytics and data in general, said Lupu of Sanford Health. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said recently that the U.S. " Dr. Roxana Lupu, Sanford Health.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

After a year dominated by COVID-19, and even with the rising challenges of the delta variant, Healthcare IT staffing is rebounding. To complicate matters more, the rising number of vaccine mandates across hospital systems has the potential to put the entire industry in a serious bind. hospitals have announced vaccine mandates.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 8, 2022

The CDC announced the launch of the LTC PPP in October 2020. Because the LTC facility population was at the highest risk of COVID-19 infections, the CDC created the LTC PPP to prioritize vaccinations of that population as quickly as possible and while vaccine availability was limited.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Prisons, jails, and other carceral facilities have been core sites of the COVID-19 pandemic, from initial outbreaks in Chinese prisons to some of the largest outbreaks in the U.S. Yet, despite these inequities, the human toll of COVID-19 among incarcerated people has remained behind the walls and in the shadows.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

COVID-19 and the U.S. health system The COVID-19 pandemic had devastating effects on the United States, and brought these long standing health inequities and policy failures – from resource allocation to public health coordination – into the view of the general American public.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions. " Prior to March 2020, only a few providers or employees were connecting remotely.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

"If I think of 2020, obviously the pandemic dominated [the year] for all of us," said Megan Callahan, VP of healthcare at Lyft, in an interview with Healthcare IT News. But Callahan has a few ideas of what to expect: COVID-19 vaccine access and distribution will have lasting impacts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

The year 2020 has been a year unlike any other year in our history. By the end of 2021, about 4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be delivered globally. Hospitals faced significant losses in 2020 due to COVID-19 as elective procedures were put on hold and out-patient department visits reduced dramatically.

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Health Law RX

APRIL 27, 2023

On April 11, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) confirmed that four notifications of enforcement discretion regarding enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules (the HIPAA rules) during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) will expire at the end of the PHE.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 1, 2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, and as we face the reality that future pandemics are coming (or have already begun ), it’s a fitting time for the United States to take stock of how the carceral system has exacerbated the harms of COVID-19, and for policymakers to seriously consider what can and should be done differently going forward.

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Health Populi

MAY 26, 2021

The emergence of the COVID-19 vaccine “infodemic” has slowed the ability for nations around the world to emerge out of the public health crisis. Growing cynicism among some health citizens facing the politicization of public health tactics like vaccines and facial masks is what we’re talking about.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

The Wall Street Journal featured the grocery chain Kroger in an article yesterday titled, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Tests Give Boost to Kroger’s Health Ambitions. It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care.

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Verisys

JUNE 13, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services : The US Department of Health and Human Services has issued a final rule update concerning guidelines for COVID-19 vaccination requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities (LTC) and Intermediate Care for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICFs-IID).

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

You’re stressed, I’m stressed; most of us have felt stress in the COVID-19 era which began in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2020. Fast-forward to January 2021, and Edelman’s survey learned that health consumers around the world lost trust in their health care systems from May 2020 to January in the new year.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

First, we look at the macro picture on health services utilization comparing the end of 2022 with pre-COVID-19 levels. With an Index of 100 for the first 8 weeks of 2020 (that is, the 2 months before COVID-19 emerged in the U.S.), Health Populi’s Hot Points: Life expectancy in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Reports by the Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) and partners showed that this situation was a breeding ground for discrimination and inequality in accessing health care services during COVID-19. 3 ICESCR ) for the full realization of the right to health.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 26, 2023

Nationwide Discretion Announced during the COVID-19 Pandemic During the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers had to deal with a nationwide public health crisis, the likes of which had never been seen before.

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Hall Render

MAY 11, 2023

On May 8, 2023, CMS updated and revised several questions and answers to provide clarifications to the memorandum that the Quality, Safety & Oversight Group at CMS originally issued on September 17, 2020, titled “Nursing Home Visitation – COVID-19” (“CMS Visitation Memo”), which announced updated visitation standards for nursing homes.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

After more than a year since COVID-19 became a global pandemic, we now understand that part of the challenge in fighting it, and any infectious disease, is solving the underlying data problem. Bad data has led to both poor behavioral and policy-oriented decisions, exacerbating COVID-19 and prolonging its consequences.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2022

Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, the rate of reporting of safety data has been unprecedented with the EMA reporting a 93% increase in the volume of adverse event reports reported in 2021 compared to 2020 1. . New advances in technology (e.g.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

The economic and healthcare system impacts of this were explored in the Post-Covid Healthcare Landscape , delivered by Fitch Solutions’ Jamie Davies and Beau Noafshar, leaders in the Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, and Medical Devices groups. The forecast is that these backlogs could persist “for years” in the NHS.

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Health Care Performance

JANUARY 11, 2022

COVID-19 stretched resources and lengthened to-do lists, and has made it harder to keep up with HIPAA compliance. They know the pandemic strains healthcare facilities, and a cyberattack might be more successful on a provider facing a COVID-19 surge. In March 2020, U.S. First, hackers are opportunists.

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