McBrayer Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In April of 2019, the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) finalized rules to increase telehealth benefits for Medicare Advantage enrollees, effectively incentivizing health systems with high numbers of private Medicare plan recipients to invest in telehealth services.

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Foster Swift

JANUARY 11, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued two highly-anticipated final rules (collectively, the “Final Rule”) to modernize and clarify the regulations that interpret the Physician Self-Referral Statute (“Stark”) and the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”).

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McBrayer Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

More > Tags: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services , CMS , Department of Health & Human Services (“HHS”) , False Claims Act , health care industry , Health Care Law , Healthcare Compliance Issues , Medicare.

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MRO Compliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Best practices are provided for data tagging to ease searchability and reduce duplicate records. Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health IT at HHS, said it succinctly during his recent interview with John Lynn on Healthcare IT Today. Every HIM professional should download this roughly 40-page guide and use it as their mantra.

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Compliancy Group

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommends ten practices that anyone handling PHI needs to implement, the fourth of which is HIPAA data loss prevention. Safeguard PHI: DLP software identifies, classifies, and tags sensitive information to protect and monitor PHI. What is HIPAA Data Loss Prevention? .

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Compliancy Group

JULY 18, 2022

The investigation by HHS found that FFHC did not provide the patient with a complete copy of her requested records as required by HIPAA’s right of access rules. The HHS investigation showed in one instance that the patient asked for an itemized billing statement in July 2019.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 23, 2023

According to the breach notice, electronic medical records were not exposed, but tag image files from a data warehouse may have been obtained in the attack. The incident has yet to appear on the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights breach portal so it is currently unclear how many individuals have been affected.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 13, 2023

For example, if a patient posted a family holiday picture and tagged you in the post, a response like “so glad we could get him home for the holidays” will likely earn you a HIPAA violation. If a patient posts something about themselves on social media, there is no HIPAA violation.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 25, 2022

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the resolution of eleven investigations in its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Right of Access Initiative, bringing the total number of these enforcement actions to thirty-eight since the initiative began.

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Hall Render

MARCH 28, 2023

The authority to make those blanket waivers was granted under Sections 1135 and 1812(f) of the Social Security Act and allowed the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) to implement certain regulatory waivers during the PHE. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Healthy People project of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) now incorporates SDoH. Complementing this penalty, the Office of Health Policy within HHS released a report measuring the benefits of addressing SDoH in healthcare. Another report from CODE calls for better tagging of data with SDoH. ” The U.S.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Since the 2022 announcement from HHS, many little-known “Data Clean Room” applications have come out of the woodwork. But CDPs usually come with a hefty price tag, and most organizations haven’t been able to justify the added expense and staffing required to take this step in digital maturity. At least, up until now.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A recent HHS Office of Inspector General report found that fewer than 0.3% ” said the former HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma in June 2020. Region Tag: Global Edition. They ushered in an unprecedented wave of connected health technologies, particularly for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

A recent HHS Office of Inspector General report found that fewer than 0.3% ” said the former HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma in June 2020. Region Tag: Global Edition. They ushered in an unprecedented wave of connected health technologies, particularly for Medicare beneficiaries.

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

in billing fraud Arizona system names new CEO Banner Health CEO Peter Fine to retire after 24 years, handing the reins to health system president Four UArizona bioscience startups selected for Flinn Foundation program Gov.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

But more recently, both the Department of Justice and the Office of Inspector General at HHS have engaged in. when it’s a direct-to-consumer product, consumers sometimes will just go on social media and tag the company or write posts. Just from news reports, where direct-to-consumer type complaints go.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

CEO gets nearly 19% raise How this Triangle drugmaker secured $45M amid brutal funding environment Morrisville public company looks to divest subsidiary after CEO tried to buy it New endowment created from assets of foundation dissolved after Randolph Health bankruptcy North Carolina distributing $2.6B

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 5, 2024

In December 2022, the HHS’ Office for Civil Rights issued guidance to HIPAA-regulated entities on the use of website tracking technologies. Unauthorized consumer data collection through third-party trackers, tags, and pixels. Website Tracking Technologies in Healthcare A study conducted in 2021 that looked at the websites of 3,747 U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Primary topic: Privacy & Security Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: FBI, HHS warn of 'imminent' cyberthreats to hospitals; Trump draws backlash over COVID-19 claims Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

TigerTouch allows providers to control communication by initiating communications with a patient’s cell number via text message, thus solving phone-tag and voicemail problems. The system also enables care providers to securely exchange photos, videos and file attachments on their smartphones. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

NATIONAL 79 percent have positive outlook for senior living and care: NIC 12 key legal issues impacting health systems AHA: 94% of hospitals financially impacted by Change Healthcare’s cyberattack A conversation about the HHS plan on AI in health care A new kind of hospital is coming to rural America.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

NATIONAL Biden plans to end the Covid public health emergency this spring in a major shift to federal response Biden administration will end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11 Can a drugstore be your only doctor?

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CALIFORNIA 8 ASCs opening in Florida, California and New York A bankrupt California hospital left a health care desert.

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