YouCompli

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Organizations that recognized the need for telehealth brought compliance officers in early to help navigate the changing documentation, coding, and confidentiality requirements. Telehealth use soared during the pandemic as new regulations were coming out at a ferocious pace.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Ryan Haight Act of 2008 generally requires a prescribing practitioner to have conducted at least one in-person medical evaluation of a patient prior to prescribing controlled substances via telehealth. When the PHE draws to an end, and state and federal waivers are terminated, navigation of both state and federal law will be required.

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Total HIPAA

MAY 31, 2023

Some key provisions of the regulation include: Consent requirements: Prior written consent is generally required from patients for any disclosure of their SUD treatment records, except in limited circumstances specified by the regulation.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 14, 2022

The rulings reversed decisions by the federal Courts of Appeal in the Fifth and Eighth Circuits, which had blocked CMS’s requirements, as well as the Sixth Circuit, which had lifted prior injunctions on OSHA’s vaccine-or-test ETS. Thus, OSHA’s vaccine-or-test ETS may well be beyond the scope of authority that Congress granted the agency.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 2, 2024

Health Care Entities Under SB 184, “health care entities”, which include (i) payers , (ii) providers and (iii) fully integrated delivery systems [2] , are potentially subject to OHCA’s CMIR authority. Once filed, OHCA must notify the submitter within 45 days if it determines that a CMIR will not be conducted.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

Most Visited Healthcare IT Today Articles that were Published Prior to 2022. Are Blogs Still Worthwhile? Why Haven’t Payers Automated Prior Authorizations Previously? A Look at Care Navigation, Virtual Care, and Oracle Cerner with Zane Burke from Quantum Health. AI and Automation in RCM is All About Balance.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

On December 22, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published draft guidance documents for manufacturers of devices that were issued Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) or were subject to relaxed enforcement policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Guidance Overview. It depends.

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Hall Render

JULY 26, 2022

The surveyor guidance also emphasizes that EMTALA requires the provision of stabilizing treatment to “prevent material deterioration and compels hospitals and physicians to act prior to the patient’s condition declining.”. Hall Render blog posts and articles are intended for informational purposes only. EMTALA as a Shield.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 12, 2022

Covered entities must ensure policies and procedures regarding personal representatives are up-to-date and accurate so that identity verification, evaluation of authority and delivery of records can occur within the required time frames. Hall Render blog posts and articles are intended for informational purposes only.

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The inclusion of MFTs and MHCs was spurred by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, which authorized payment for services furnished by these providers. Please refer to our January 5, 2023 , November 4, 2022 and May 16, 2022 blog posts for more information.

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Healthcare Law Blog

MAY 10, 2023

These loans will serve as a critical lifeline, helping eligible hospitals stabilize operations and navigate through turbulent times. The State legislature has authorized the Department of Finance to fund the Distressed Hospital Loan Program with up to $150,000,000 from the State General Fund for State fiscal years 2022–23 and 2023–24.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2022

Gupta explained, for a physician to have this sort of virtual meet-up with a patient, above to virtually walk around the patient’s home with him — learning what activities they like to do, from interacting with pets to playing the piano, navigating the kitchen and so on. “This is a life changer for patients and loved ones.”

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 11, 2022

In the “Guidance to Protect Patient Privacy in Wake of Supreme Court Decision on Roe,” [4] OCR addresses three existing exceptions in the HIPAA Privacy Rule to the disclosure of PHI without an individual’s authorization and provides examples of how those exceptions may be applied post- Dobbs.

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Drug & Device Law

JULY 31, 2023

We have blogged several times about the somewhat esoteric issue of whether intangible items – chiefly computer software, website algorithms, and other electronic information – is treated as a “product” for purposes of imposing strict liability on their creators. 19, comment f. Dastar Corp. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. ,

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