Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. Older and medically vulnerable people who continue to face high risk of COVID-19 illness after vaccination should not be asked to wait in line behind adults who refused vaccines.

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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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Health Law Attorney

MARCH 16, 2022

In an effort to combat the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), the Dept. The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) oversees and processes the claims for reimbursement on behalf of the HHS. The HRSA began processing claims submitted to the Uninsured Program on February 4, 2020.

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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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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). Failing to do so would be a missed opportunity for the public sector to have a say in the distribution and pricing of this critical medical technology.

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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 transition period starts on May 12, 2023, and expires at 11:59 pm on August 9, 2023.

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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. We have watched the United States declare a public health emergency. And we have mourned the loss of those that succumbed to the virus.

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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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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. The alarm mechanism based on the declaration of Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), in particular, has been severely tested.

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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.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027. health care: “Wake up, public health!” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Life expectancy in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To design systems and policies that promote the right to health, a holistic and proactive approach is needed, one in which people, institutions, and corporations have a shared responsibility in promoting physical, mental, and social well-being. health care system. COVID-19 and the U.S.

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YouCompli

MARCH 29, 2023

In this article, she discusses several issues that hospitals and health systems need to consider as a result of the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) reports that 80% of the U.S. Many waivers of CoPs requirements will end.

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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. ” she asserted. .”

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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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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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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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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. in the voices of public health, the public sector, and media. This is a global challenge as well, which the first bar chart illustrates.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 26, 2023

When the Secretary issues a Notice of HIPAA Enforcement Discretion, it only applies to the emergency area for the emergency period specified in the public health emergency declaration, and only to hospitals that have initiated a disaster protocol.

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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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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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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

COVID Regulations Impacted CMS issued several interim final rules during the PHE. Interim final rules are effective for a period of three years from the date of publication if CMS does not take further action. COVID Testing Requirements. In 2020, CMS revised the nursing home infection control regulations at 42 CFR § 483.80

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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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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Newsom a legal principle that threatens to upend over a century of legal precedent recognizing the authority of state governments to ensure public health by mandating vaccines. Tandon , a religious rights case unrelated to vaccines, arose in March 2020 during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.,

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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. Nearly eighteen months later, a 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer update finds that consumers’ trust in the health care industry is under stress, too — in the U.S.

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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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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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Hall Render

MAY 11, 2023

As skilled nursing facilities work and provide health care services after the May 11, 2023, end of the Public Health Emergency, questions and concerns about visitation at these facilities will likely continue to arise. Vaccination Recommendation While not required, CMS encouraged facilities to offer testing to visitors.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2022

Monitoring the safe and effective use of medicines has now been an essential part of public health policy for several decades. Prior to COVID-19, few members of the public knew what pharmacovigilance was. New advances in technology (e.g., A higher profile for pharmacovigilance – and a need for communication.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Americans are no doubt conditioned to expect spectacular failure in the face of public health crises. The United States had been ravaged for decades by a shape-shifting drug overdose crisis before the emergence of COVID-19. Between 1999 and 2020, nearly one million Americans succumbed to drug overdoses.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. population health burden. during the public health crisis.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

On October 8, 2020, Moderna, the maker of one of the first mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 and the recipient of billions of dollars of U.S. Moderna broke that promise on August 26, 2022, when it sued Pfizer and BioNTech , the producers of a competing mRNA vaccine, for patent infringement in the U.S. By Jorge L.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S. health care.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Since the first days of the COVID-19 pandemic, employers, businesses, and other entities have anticipated litigation around tort claims associated with the novel coronavirus. Early in 2020, scholars here began to grapple with questions of tort liability relating to the pandemic response. Legal limitations and strategies.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Then, COVID-19 emerged as a pandemic the world over, and the move to Brussels in January 2020 was quite short-lived. The United States is currently considered a “red zone” — a country at high-risk for COVID transmission. citizenship. and the E.U. Why Brussels?

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Health Care Law Brief

DECEMBER 22, 2021

In the CY 2022 PFS, CMS has reduced its conversion factor by about 3.75% to account for a budget neutrality adjustment and the expiration of the increase in the conversion factor that went into place to account for losses from COVID-19 in CY 2021. Vaccinations. Telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

Chief Medical Information Officer, Urban Health Plan. As CMIO of Urban Health Plan, a Bronx-based Federally-Qualified Health Center, Connelly-Flores has worked to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates via texting campaigns, online vaccine registration and other patient engagement projects focused on one of the areas in the U.S.

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