HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The COVID-19 vaccination statuses of approximately 500,000 Department of Veterans Affairs employees have been impermissibly disclosed. The spreadsheet also included details of claimed religious and medical exceptions to COVID-19 vaccination.

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Symplr

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COVID-19 time line, February 2021: The distribution of COVID-19 vaccines was in its early stages. However, that number accounts for only 65% of the total U.S. population.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A mother and her two daughters have been charged for providing fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards to maintain and obtain employment at a New York nursing home. Vaccination is mandatory for nursing home employment in New York. They are scheduled to appear in court on March 14, 2022. Update your policy as needed.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2022

(NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) announced the initiation of a clinical trial study to evaluate the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of an Omicron-based vaccine candidate in healthy adults 18 through 55 years of age. – Cohort #3 (n=205): Vaccine-naïve participants will receive three doses of the Omicron-based vaccine.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 24, 2022

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is failing parents by preventing off-label use of our existing COVID-19 vaccines in the under-five set. The cries of frustration , anger , and fear from parents of small children have reached a new pitch amidst the ruckus of 2022.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, now entering its fourth year in 2023, legislators, executives, and judges at every level of government have sought measures to derail efficacious public health interventions. And most relate solely to COVID-19 interventions, which sunset permanently as states withdraw their emergencies.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Addressing Declines in COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and COVID-19 Treatment. A pre-Thanksgiving analysis of this data revealed that just 45% of SNF residents and 23% of SNF staff were up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. [i].

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

claims for COVID-19 vaccines. Tue, 02/01/2022 - 13:47. Casey: UnitedHealth has reprocessed more than 1.6M

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Health Law Attorney

MARCH 16, 2022

In an effort to combat the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), the Dept. On March 15, 2022, the HRSA posted a notice on the Uninsured Program website that the Uninsured Program would stop accepting claims for testing, treatment, and vaccination due to lack of sufficient funds. At 11:59 p.m. Continue Reading ?.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Study: Better COVID-19 vaccine uptake might have saved thousands of lives. Tue, 11/22/2022 - 13:27.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 30, 2022

Department of Defense (DoD) put in place requirements for service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Litigation has since ensued over the military branches’ restrictive approach to religious exemptions to vaccination. The Navy, so far, has granted only one religious exemption to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 12, 2022

Cases of COVID-19 are still occurring across the United States due to more contagious Omnicron variants. Doctors and scientists worry about the effectiveness of current vaccines in protecting older populations against Omnicron infections. Therefore, experts are highly recommending booster vaccines. 5 sub-variants.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 17, 2023

Two pharmaceutical giants of the pandemic, Moderna and BioNTech, are taking steps for increasing the manufacturing capacity for the COVID-19 vaccine in Africa. Last March, Moderna announced its plan to set up a manufacturing facility in Kenya to produce messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including COVID-19 shots.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

After the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large employers was withdrawn last month , many pronounced private employers to be “on their own” to make decisions about vaccine requirements for their employees. In a case against the J.M. A Fifth Circuit Outlier.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2023

By Aparajita Lath Two articles published last month in the BMJ analyze the public investment and financing of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting the extensive government funding that has supported the development of mRNA technology from 1985 to 2022. government substantially de-risking the vaccine development process.

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 20, 2022

Billing and coding guidelines for various medical specialities are constantly getting updated due different COVID-19 variants. As Public Health Emergency (PHE) has extended beyond 16 th April 2022 by 90 days, various waivers are continued, making no change in billing guidelines in pandemic.

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Health Law Pulse

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Although receiving the COVID-19 vaccine remains one of the best ways to combat the severity of one’s symptoms, Dr. Van Kerkhove warned that the vaccine could become less effective as the virus continues to evolve. The post COVID-19 Update: New Variants and Vaccine Research appeared first on Health Law Pulse.

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 18, 2022

Many people use rapid at home COVID-19 tests to ensure that they have not contracted the virus. Receiving one negative test result does n0t necessarily mean that someone doesn’t have COVID-19. Repeat COVID-19 Tests. However, a PCR COVID-19 test has a higher detection rate of 95%.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

While receiving significant global traction and acceptance since their publication in 1985, the Siracusa Principles, the authors argue, proved to be simply “unequal to the task” of guiding States’ conduct in the context of COVID-19 because they are “unable to speak in any significant detail to the particular concerns of public health crises.”

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Race Equality Foundation CEO Jabeer Butt welcomed the review, but said it was not enough to explain the disproportionate deaths of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people from COVID-19. Initial findings are expected by the end of January 2022. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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American Medical Compliance

JULY 22, 2022

5 COVID-19 variants are not presenting drastically different symptoms. 5 New COVID-19 Variants. 5 variant has accounted for over 50% of all COVID-19 cases in the United States, with BA.4 5 are the most prevalent types of COVID-19 in the United States. Immunity and the New COVID-19 Variants.

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American Medical Compliance

JULY 22, 2022

5 COVID-19 variants are not presenting drastically different symptoms. 5 New COVID-19 Variants. 5 variant has accounted for over 50% of all COVID-19 cases in the United States, with BA.4 5 are the most prevalent types of COVID-19 in the United States. Immunity and the New COVID-19 Variants.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

” As we enter Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and civic chasms and economic uncertainty (inflation, health care costs, Great Resignations), I took this page out of Dr, Seuss in my last monthly post for Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. .” > consumers are “shrugging off” Omicron.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Telehealth, according to the federal government, has been "transformational" to the delivery of healthcare and "underpinned much" of its COVID-19 response. Since last year March, over 16 million patients have received over 80 million COVID-19 telehealth services under the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS).

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

COVID-19 and the U.S. health system The COVID-19 pandemic had devastating effects on the United States, and brought these long standing health inequities and policy failures – from resource allocation to public health coordination – into the view of the general American public. By the end of 2022, nearly 1.7

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AJPH

DECEMBER 22, 2021

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 17-20, January 2022.

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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. increased by a relatively low 6.0% population health burden.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2022

We reached out to six healthcare executives for their trends and predictions on healthcare cybersecurity and ransomware to watch in 2022. As we head into 2022, it is likely we will see an increase in both the sheer number of attacks on hospitals as well as severity. Milan Shah, Chief Technology Officer of Biofourmis.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 2, 2022

This month’s article looks at COVID enforcements.?? ?. The Federal government spent unprecedented trillions of dollars throughout the COVID public health emergency (PHE). The Federal government spent unprecedented trillions of dollars throughout the COVID public health emergency (PHE). In April 2022, officials at the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Surescripts is Actually an Interoperability Company According to Surescript’s 2022 National Progress Report , 1.23 Confirmation of Vaccination The pandemic accelerated the use of Surescripts’ platform as an information exchange. “We million prescribers used their platform to fill 2.34 billion e-prescriptions.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

First, we look at the macro picture on health services utilization comparing the end of 2022 with pre-COVID-19 levels. With an Index of 100 for the first 8 weeks of 2020 (that is, the 2 months before COVID-19 emerged in the U.S.), Women thus accounted for one-third of ADHD prescriptions as of December 2022.

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AJPH

DECEMBER 22, 2021

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 29-33, January 2022.

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Med Law Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for workers in most institutional care settings. Also, all eligible workers must be fully vaccinated by January 4, 2022. A copy of the CMS press release can be found at [link].

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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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OSHA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

On April 4, 2022, a merits panel of the D.C. Less than two weeks later, on January 5, 2022, National Nurses United and several other labor unions filed an Emergency Petition for a Writ of Mandamus and Request for Expedited Briefing and Disposition with the D.C. Reporting work-related COVID-19 fatalities and in-patient hospitalizations.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Matternet, which has been flying Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) commercially over cities since 2017, will operate its technology under SkyGo’s license for BVLOS drone delivery, and transport urgent, high-value goods such as COVID-19 vaccines, blood, and lab samples across the Abu Dhabi’s health system.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has armed surveyors with detailed instructions on how to survey skilled nursing facilities for compliance with the CMS staff vaccine requirements. Policies and procedures related to the skilled nursing facility’s COVID-19 staff vaccination policies and procedures.

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