New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

This notice extends the waiver of the continuing education requirements for current active health officers and REHSs who are renewing their license for the 2022 licensing period. The rules include definitions for various levels of supervision and permitted tasks within the scope of the license. See N.J.A.C. 10:101 as N.J.A.C.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 24, 2023

This section relates to the “Exclusion of Certain Individuals and Entities from Participation in Medicare and State Health Care Programs”, which – although effective since the passage of the Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments in 1977 – had never been properly enforced due to a lack of resources.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 10, 2019

The demand for services is growing faster than the labor supply is, particularly for skilled labor – anyone with a license. The people who have looked at this and tried to measure a couple of places if you look back at that work that was done at Oxford in 2013, there was a big study that said 47% of U.S. jobs will be automated.

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Medisys Compliance

JANUARY 19, 2023

It first appeared in 2013, when code 90801 was replaced by a number of revised mental health CPT codes. Can I use my license to bill CPT code 90791? CPT code 90791 is typically used by clinical psychologists, licensed professional clinical counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, and licensed clinical social workers.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 30, 2023

UFCW Local 2013 Health and Welfare Fund Catholic Managed Long Term Care, Inc Hicksville UFSD Nassau County Uniformed Fire Alarm Dispatchers Benevolent Association Centerlight Healthcare, Inc. The types of compromised information varied from individual to individual. Town Of Hempstead CareConnect Insurance Company Healthplex, Inc.

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

From incident reporting to equipment management, our compliance solution helps organizations seamlessly conform with regulatory standards and accreditation requirements from each state and accreditation body such as AAASC, The Joint Commission and Medicare.

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

From incident reporting to equipment management, our compliance solution helps organizations seamlessly conform with regulatory standards and accreditation requirements from each state and accreditation body such as AAASC, The Joint Commission and Medicare.

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Hall Render

JULY 22, 2022

CMS releases Medicare OPPS and ASC proposed rule. Long Beach Memorial avoids losing Medicare funding after serious patient care lapses. Board suspends nurse’s license 17 months after arrest in stabbing incident. New York confirms 1st national polio case since 2013. CMS pitches outpatient payment rule. CMS proposes 2.7%

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 21, 2021

a network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare, today announced it has acquired RubiconMD , the leading technology platform providing access to specialist expertise. What You Should Know: – Oak Street Health, Inc. ,

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 2, 2023

The following is a small selection of those we have reported on: In May 2013, Dianna Hereford was terminated from her position of staff nurse at the Norton Audubon Hospital for improperly disclosing the condition of a patient with Hepatitis C. What are the consequences of accessing a patient chart without reason? Are HIPAA violations common?

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

2023) (rejecting any express anti-preemption presumption in Medicare case) ( here ); Baker v. Equally bad, Hrymoc effectively read a New Jersey statute, §2A:58C-5(c), which precludes punitive damages where a “device” was “licensed” by the FDA, out of existence. The G/N MDL was created in 2013 and mostly settled in 2016.

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