The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 19, 2013

The nonprofit organization is accused of fraudulently billing Medicaid and other government programs for health services provided by some of its Texas clinics between 2003 and 2009, according to the DOJ. Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast recently paid $4.3

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 14, 2023

During the COVID-19 PHE, CMS issued temporary waivers, including a waiver of the “location requirement” of the In-Office Ancillary Services (“IOAS”) exception. Similarly, the Stark Law carveout from the definition of “referral” – for services that are personally performed by a physician – rarely will apply with respect to DME.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

So only in America in the coronavirus pandemic have millions of people lost their health security just when folks would be most needful of access to health care services: during a public health crisis. In 2003, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published the book, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated. Because, ultimately, we must work to bake digital health services into our emergency preparedness and response infrastructure.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

The HIPAA Security Rule was drafted in 2003 and has not been substantively updated since that time. This information is attractive to criminals because it is widely used to authenticate a person’s identity, is difficult to change, and can be used to commit fraudulent claims for health equipment, services, and prescriptions.

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AIHC

MARCH 14, 2023

Enforcement date: The HIPAA Privacy Rule was first enforced in the United States on April 14, 2003. YES The right of access initiative is enforced by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) began an enforcement initiative in 2019.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

Remember, this is the federal government, so getting almost halfway through the throat-clearing phase of fleshing out an idea in about six months or so really is a sprint.) The final piece of this trifecta is the privacy rule applicable to substance abuse service providers, aka 42 CFR Part 2. The regs were finalized in 2003.)

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

Remember, this is the federal government, so getting almost halfway through the throat-clearing phase of fleshing out an idea in about six months or so really is a sprint.) The final piece of this trifecta is the privacy rule applicable to substance abuse service providers, aka 42 CFR Part 2. The regs were finalized in 2003.)

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 5, 2023

To find further evidence supporting this statement, you need only visit the Enforcement Highlights page on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website. The page reveals that, since 2003, the agency has received more than 300,000 complaints alleging violations of HIPAA.

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Total HIPAA

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

In this post, we explain the importance of HIPAA compliant cloud backups and review five vendors who offer this service: ArcServe , Carbonite , IDrive , Microsoft Azure , and SpiderOak. While both services store your files at an offsite location, cloud backup is a software-based solution that automates the backup process for you.

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AIHC

MARCH 28, 2022

Government Accountability Office (GAO), improper payments have been estimated to total almost $1.7 trillion government-wide from fiscal years 2003 through 2019. Auditing and denying claims after the claims have been paid is “big money” for the government. According to the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

medical spending in Health Affairs in 2003. In England, World War II yielded the country’s beloved National Health Service. The certainty now is we-know-we-know we are in a pandemic that will challenge both our “fiscal” and “physical” forecasts, as I wrote in Health Populi earlier this week.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JULY 22, 2022

620(b), the Department of Human Services, Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services adopted amendments to Transportation Services Rules. The chapter describes the policies and procedures of the New Jersey Medicaid/NJ FamilyCare program regarding transportation services. On April 4, 2022, at 54 N.J.R. See N.J.A.C.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We refocused resources, adapted our services, and jumped into an immediate cost cutting plan to minimize losses as we slowly grew our core business back to normal revenues. The reason we do this annually is pretty simple, our services can be boring when we first discuss what we do to a new audience. Scan the bar code! TeamSQA. .

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2023

” This was a preface to the Department of Health and Human Services this week launching an advisory on The Healing Effects of Social Connection , a framework for U.S. Simply put: time spent alone by Americans between 2003 and 2020 grew; time spent with others fell, in some instances like time with friends in dramatic decline downward.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 30, 2022

As the industry had evolved, many jurisdictions had interpreted the provision of indirect access to healthcare service as the “ unlicensed practice of medicine ”. However, when HIPAA was passed, the standards governing health care data, patients´ rights, and the flow of information were still several years away.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

The authors note that “consumer-driven” health care is, “associated with neoliberal efforts to emphasize market factors in health reform,” de-emphasizing government regulation and financing. Asking consumers to shop for services and be “prudent purchasers” of services?

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A Bipartisan Program Politicized by the Abortion Debate Since its bipartisan inception in 2003, PEPFAR has saved 25 million lives and prevented 5.5 According to its operational plan guidance , PEPFAR prioritizes collaboration with national governments. million cases of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

believe that the Federal government should ensure that their fellow Americans, a new Gallup Poll found. This sentiment has been relatively stable since 2000 except for two big outlying years: a spike of 69% in 2006, and a low-point in 2003 of 42%. This asked people whether they would prefer a government-run health system.

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Drug & Device Law

JULY 31, 2023

Courts are unanimous in refusing to categorize commercially-provided services as products.” Since digital files were not “articles” under the statute, the government could not rely on this statute to prevent their importation. 19, comment d. 19, comment f. at 1291-93 (construing 19 U.S.C. at 1291-92. at 1293-94. Aleynikov , 676 F.3d

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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 1, 2023

Alaska “adopted the position that the trial court is the ‘gatekeeper’ responsible for keeping out ‘junk science.’” John’s Heating Service v. of Health & Social Services, 461 P.3d All X-Ray Diagnostic Services, Corp. , Central Illinois Public Service Co., Shults-Lewis Child & Family Services, Inc. ,

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 30, 2023

Charter Advanced Services (MN), LLC , 205 L. Davidowitz , 312 U.S. Moran , 536 U.S. Walsh , 538 U.S. United States , 567 U.S. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. ,

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 26, 2024

18, 2024), which applied the Illinois statute governing blood and organ transactions to dismiss strict liability and warranty claims. To make the product, the defendants acquired cadaver tissue from donor services. 2d 640, 653 (2003)). As a result, the product was “characteristically a service under the Act.”

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