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Importance of Regulatory Compliance in Healthcare

Compliancy Group

Also, all insurance and Medicare or Medicaid claims must only include charges for services and treatments ordered and deemed necessary. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) enforces laws relevant to patient care, healthcare delivery and billing, and workplace safety in the U.S. name, phone number).

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Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond

Bill of Health

Similarly, our health care system is a significant barrier to employment because most private health insurance companies do not cover critical supports for disabled people, such as personal assistant services. In other words, legal and policy responses must take a Disability Justice approach.

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HHS Issues Proposed Rule to Provide Clarity on Rights of Conscience in Healthcare

Healthcare Law Blog

The PHS Act requires post-graduate physician training programs that do not perform induced abortions to be deemed accredited and protects governmental payments provided as reimbursement for carrying out health related activities. Medicaid and Medicare The Balanced Budget Act of 1997, Public Law 105–33, 111 Stat.

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A Tale of Two America’s for Health

Health Populi

The top-line of this national health scorecard is that “deaths of despair” are surging, due to suicide, alcohol, opioids, and other drugs whose use has grown by 50% since 2005 to 2016. The social determinants of health — income and good jobs, using tobacco, and having health insurance — bolster good health.

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A Health-Heavy State of the Union

Kaiser Health News

He took a victory lap on recent accomplishments like capping prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare. He urged Congress to do more, including making permanent the boosted insurance premium subsidies added to the Affordable Care Act during the pandemic. But first, this week’s health news. Here is the tape.

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A Rural Georgia Community Reels After Its Hospital Closes

Kaiser Health News

That’s the largest number of such facilities to shut down in a single year since 2005, when the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina began tracking the data. .” The Cuthbert hospital was one of 19 rural hospitals in the U.S. that closed in 2020.

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CMS Issues Proposed Rule to Standardize Electronic Health Care Attachments Transactions and Electronic Signature under HIPAA

C&M Health Law

This proposed rule would support electronic transmissions of this type of information, with the goal of facilitating prior authorization decisions and claims processing, reduce burden on providers and plans, and result in more timely delivery of patient health care services.

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