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. New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Update your policy as needed.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

And though evidence is mounting that the risk of hospitalization and death is lower for each person infected compared to Delta, Omicron’s extremely high transmissibility means that a large fraction of the population will become infected in a short time period, particularly in the absence of additional public health measures.

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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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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2022

The proposed compromise would allow for “the use of patented subject matter required for the production and supply of COVID-19 vaccines without the consent of the right holder to the extent necessary to address the COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance with the provisions of Article 31 of the Agreement, as clarified and waived.”

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

Like the Open COVID Pledge before it, Moderna’s pledge expressly states that it is valid only “ while the pandemic continues. government purchased millions of doses of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine, along with large quantities of vaccines manufactured by Pfizer. Pfizer made such a vaccine. Updating” the Pledge.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As millions of healthcare workers begin receiving the first vaccination to protect against COVID-19, public health officials and government leaders continue wrestling with not only the operational challenges of scale—this is the first mass vaccination since smallpox (1958-1977) and polio (1980s-present)—but also […].

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Incarcerated people were also two and a half times more likely to die from COVID-19, according to a recent study published in JAMA. We know that incarcerated patients often present at younger ages with more advanced stages of disease when seen by external health care providers.

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Compliance Now

JANUARY 14, 2022

On January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) voted to block the continued enforcement of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring large employers to either require all employees to obtain their COVID–19 vaccinations or submit to weekly virus testing.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Vaccines are pharmaceutical products, a critical tool in public and global health. At the same time, they are regularly treated as commodities , often in ways that are completely divorced from their public health value. Operative criteria of “burden” and related considerations (e.g.,

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Some research has concluded darker skinned patients who might need hospitalisation are at greater risk of inaccurate results from oximeters due to a tendency to present higher levels of oxygen in their blood. It will also examine MRI scanners, which are not recommended for use for pregnant or breastfeeding women. ON THE RECORD.

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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. Sister Mary is CEO and President of CHA. ” she asserted. .” Amen and amen.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 3, 2022

In January 2021, the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness went live with LouVax, a vaccine scheduling and management system focused on increasing access to the COVID-19 vaccine. After operating on paper for a few weeks, the agency launched the tool. HIMSS22 Coverage.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic took its toll, the year 2020 ushered in declarations of a National Emergency (“NE”) and a Public Health Emergency (“PHE”). The post What Will Expiration of the Public Health Emergency and National Emergency Mean for Employers? The PHE is set to expire on May 11, 2023.

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

Their COVID War The “ COVID Crisis Group ” is an establishment group of businesspeople and government officials plus some subject matter experts. Some have also served as public health officials and/or professors. They also present good ideas on the “how” side of public health. 209), and the like.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

From spring 2020 through the present day, Americans have endured levels of sickness and death that are outliers among not only wealthy democracies, but around the world. No other country has recorded as many total COVID-19 casualties as the United States — indeed, no other country comes close. By Martha Lincoln.

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Health Law Pulse

JANUARY 21, 2022

We have watched the United States declare a public health emergency. Together we have seen the infection rates skyrocket as 60,000 cases of COVID-19 infections had been confirmed in February 2020—a number that pales in comparison to today’s figures.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Front and center will be homelessness and health care, top priorities for voters — and issues that have largely defined the governors’ policies and leadership styles. From abortion to covid-19 vaccines, Newsom and DeSantis could not be further apart. California bans short-term health plans.

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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. Presently, among the fifty U.S. In 2021, the Supreme Court articulated in Tandon v.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

Over the summer of 2021, concern grew that the vaccines were not providing the near-perfect protection against symptomatic disease and transmission that had first emboldened the administration to jettison other public health measures. The entire pandemic response hinged on vaccination as a silver bullet.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 27, 2023

Bard The White House is preparing to shut down their COVID Task Force this May, in conjunction with ending the public health emergency — the latest in a series of astounding and shortsighted decisions that put individual Americans at as great a risk from serious harm as a result of catching COVID-19 as at any stage in the pandemic.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 7, 2022

thus has reverberating repercussions: it strips away not only necessary public health precautions, but also hard-won adaptations, such as remote work and more generous sick leave policies. It is amid this backdrop that we are proud to present our latest digital symposium, Build Back Better?

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American Medical Compliance

JULY 22, 2022

According to Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner, Dr. Allison Arwady, the BA.4 5 COVID-19 variants are not presenting drastically different symptoms. 5 variant has accounted for over 50% of all COVID-19 cases in the United States, with BA.4 Since the beginning of July, the BA.5

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American Medical Compliance

JULY 22, 2022

According to Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner, Dr. Allison Arwady, the BA.4 5 COVID-19 variants are not presenting drastically different symptoms. 5 variant has accounted for over 50% of all COVID-19 cases in the United States, with BA.4 Since the beginning of July, the BA.5

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

On the pharma supply side, mRNA vaccines will dominate the market, proving more effective than others at stemming a further outbreak. With growing global supply and competition, we can expect prices for COVID-19 vaccines to fall, anticipating additional volumes from Sinopharm, Moderna, Sinovac, Gamaleya Institute, among others.

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SQA

APRIL 30, 2021

Commission Extends Transparency and Authorization Mechanism for Exports of COVID-19 Vaccines, 11 March 2021. The EC has extended until the end of June 2021 the transparency and authorization mechanism for COVID-19 vaccine exports. The EU continues to be the leading provider of vaccines around the world.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 21, 2022

The present pandemic nightmare is the most recent and an especially acute manifestation of capitalist society’s tendency to kill many, regularly, a tendency that Friedrich Engels called “social murder.” ­­By Nate Holdren. Capitalism kills because destructive behaviors are, to an important extent, compulsory in this kind of society.

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Bill of Health

JULY 24, 2023

We should resist the temptation to respond to death and injury by looking for ways to say the present level of death is better than some counterfactual. Unless COVID deaths are genuinely at zero, no level of death is actually good news, it’s just the absence of even worse news. It would be funny if it weren’t so ghastly.

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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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Health Law RX

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Employees who do not report to a workplace where other individuals, such as coworkers or customers, are present are exempted from coverage – an exemption which could lead employers to reevaluate whether to continue remote working practices. It is the employer’s responsibility to determine the vaccination status of each employee.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 3, 2023

To make sense of these developments, leading experts in health law policy analyze Judge O’Connor’s ruling below. This discourse strips away the public health benefits of medical treatment and shifts focus to the patient’s individual behavior. Doron Dorfman Braidwood v. It essentially de-medicalizes PrEP.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The BroadReach team in South Africa has had the fortune of working in collaboration with USAID and the South Africa Department of Health to aid in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccination to clinics within rural communities, where vaccination levels were 25% below the national average.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 1, 2022

.” By starting with an endorsement of baseless statements by COVID minimizers, he weakened what was otherwise a compelling call to get kids boosted. The FDA has always known that COVID-19 presents severe risks to children, both on initial infection and in the damage it leaves behind.

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C&M Health Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Mandl also urged developers to design algorithms focused on improving administrative burdens and physician-patient relationships while maintaining safety He also encouraged Congress to create and implement legal and ethical safeguards to protect health care workers from liability.

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Provider Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

This post will delve into the key highlights, focus areas, and accomplishments presented in the semiannual report, shedding light on the OIG’s crucial role in safeguarding the integrity of federal healthcare programs and addressing emerging challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: By June 2020, it became clear to the Centers for Disease Control that COVID-19 had been exacting a tougher toll on the lives of people of color in the U.S. The bar chart here was drawn on the data the CDC presented in June 2020 getting granular on coronavirus cases by age and race.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Most patients with severe COVID did not present with obvious respiratory distress. I knew this would not happen. Just as there was no assurance of masking or social distancing in prisons, there was no guarantee of follow-up.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 18, 2022

Earlier this week, the agency faced criticism from the public health community that its back-to-school COVID guidance pares back already weak protections against the spread of disease by dropping its recommendations for asymptomatic screening and quarantine after exposure. This is sad.

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