Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The second drawing illustrates the fact that health care service patterns have not returned to their pre-pandemic levels. Aside from care for COVID-19, volumes are down except for services related to mental and behavioral health (with rates of mental health prescribing increasing for antidepressant and anti-anxiety drugs). That was 2.7

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Even so, the organization is currently in the process of expanding beyond traditional correctional settings, recently beginning to provide child psychiatric services, mental health treatment, and substance use services to the general population. The company was formed by combining Trinity Services Group, which H.I.G.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

Key strategies will include deploying more telehealth and virtual health care services, Centers of Excellence for high-cost conditions, and getting more personal in communicating and engaging through platforms. Here are some details about these strategies, which I foresee will impact employees’ health care service flows in 2020.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 13, 2011

Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Abstract: IT governance has been topic of interest for many years, and even though the concept has been embraced within the healthcare industry, the reality is that it’s still not operationally working well within most healthcare organizations. Click here to download this white paper.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

Although the consumer perception and stigma around mental health was starting to change before COVID-19, the pandemic generated widespread acceptance and adoption of mental and behavioral healthcare services. Fortunately, government, investors and startups are working together to close some of these care gaps.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Where electronic certificates produced and issued by the provincial application system are used, the provincial drug regulatory department shall clarify the relevant guidelines to enterprises within its administrative region and provide guidance and services. ” The requirements for providers (e.g.,

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 6, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued the proposed rule on Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs (the “Proposed Rule”). Enrollee Participation in Plan Governance (§ 422.107).

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

On April 1, 2022 , the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced states may seek to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to one year through a new state plan option offered by the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”). 2] Black women have a maternal mortality rate 3.3 31, 2022). [2] 2] Emily E. Peterson, et.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 5, 2023

Deflection immediately places the offender into a treatment program and connects him or her with ancillary services ( e.g., recovery support) with the sole purpose of preventing future involvement with the justice system. This approach originated in 2011, is a smarter way to stop the cycle of crime and an alternative to incarceration.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 22, 2011

This was a key finding in a survey conducted last May by CDW LLC, a technology solutions and services firm in Vernon, Ill. The poll assessed current and future cloud computing use in healthcare, business, government, and education, and found that 28 percent of organizations (across all industries) use the cloud today in some capacity.

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 10, 2023

5] But that Interstate Commerce Clause needs to be viewed also in balance with the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, which reserves to the states any powers not delegated to the federal government. Let’s just say federal jurisdiction is broad, not very intuitive, and ever-expanding. [5]

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Just another name for a government-run, single payer system. Seema Verma, Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services . Just another name for a government-run, single payer system. percent from 2011-2016, from $17.6 Trillion tax hike, because the cost of health care to the government would more than double.

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Kaiser Health News

JUNE 29, 2022

Congress should crack down on Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors that sometimes deny patients vital medical care while overcharging the government billions of dollars every year, government watchdogs told a House panel Tuesday. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.),

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C&M Health Law

JANUARY 25, 2023

trillion spending package, which consists of all 12 fiscal year (FY) 2023 appropriations bills and funds the federal government through September 30, 2023, provides additional assistance to Ukraine, and makes numerous health care policy changes. 117-164 ) (the “Act”)—an approximately $1.7

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Hall Render

MARCH 16, 2022

2471 ) that funds the federal government for the remainder of FY 2022. billion in new COVID-19 emergency funding requested by the White House was removed at the last moment after some rank and file House Democrats objected to a cost offset that rescinded $7 billion in unused state and local government aid from previous COVID-19 relief laws.

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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 2011) (“Trial judges serve as evidentiary gatekeepers for ensuring the reliability of proposed expert testimony.”) (quoting Wood v. Lamb , 46 P.3d

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

2023) (federal government may unilaterally obtain dismissal of FCA claims, and calling the constitutionality of the FCA’s private enforcement mechanism into question) ( here ); Quishenberry v. United States Department of Health and Human Services , 58 F.4th In 2023, these include United States ex rel. Polansky v. 3d 239 (Cal.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 15, 2024

That is significant because, unlike (now) every other state in the country, since 1987 Pennsylvania precedent prohibited defendants from introducing evidence of their compliance with government and/or industry standards (“standards compliance” or “compliance” evidence, for short) in strict liability design defect cases – generally.

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Drug & Device Law

MARCH 11, 2024

Carson II gave lip service to the abolition of the presumption against preemption, 92 F.4th Any state “damages” award “is designed to be[] a potent method of governing conduct and controlling policy.” 604, 619 (2011) – but we’ll stop here. 4th at 989, but that was all. Again, we’ll explain. 4th at 993-94. Mensing , 564 U.S.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 30, 2023

Bartlett , 570 U.S. 472 (2013), implied preemption decisions, cited only by the dissent in Wyeth v. Levine , 555 U.S. 555 (2009), and rated only a “ cf. citation in PLIVA, Inc. Mensing , 564 U.S. Davidowitz , 312 U.S. Moran , 536 U.S. Drown , 556 U.S. Mazda Motor, Inc. , Mazda Motor, Inc. , Mensing , 564 U.S. United States , 567 U.S.

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Drug & Device Law

MARCH 13, 2023

Unlike almost every state in the country, since 1987, Pennsylvania law has prohibited defendants from introducing evidence of their compliance with government and/or industry standards in strict liability design defect cases – generally. Central Medical Health Services, Inc. , E.g. , Lewis v. Coffing Hoist Division , 528 A.2d

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 10, 2022

Lawyers, like professionals offering other services, can advertise and such advertising can serve the legitimate purpose of helping an individual determine if they have a legal problem and are in need of a lawyer. It’s harder still sometimes to differentiate between a lawyer ad and public service announcement. Recht at *3.

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Drug & Device Law

APRIL 25, 2022

Back in 2010, we examined one restrictive judicial gloss on Rule 407 – a “policy” based exception that the rule somehow doesn’t apply to government-mandated measures. Zoll Services, LLC , 2019 WL 3883682, at *1-2 (S.D. Rather, it flies in the face of the most recent (2011) amendments to Rule 407. Thus in Godelia v.

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