May 22, 2023 Is Your DNA Safe? DNA Sequencing Machines Found to Contain Critical Vulnerabilities By Pierre Jeppsson Ankura CTIX Key Points: Illumina DNA sequencing machines are vulnerable to exploitation.Both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...
May 19, 2023 How Health Systems Can Use Financial Metrics to Inform Real Estate Capital Management Decisions By Michael O'Keefe Today, maximizing the use of your limited capital is especially important because: margins continue to be squeezed,access to capital has...
May 19, 2023 OCR Settlement of HIPAA Violation of Business Associate By Lisa Taylor Ricardo Pabon-Deglans On May 16, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced a settlement...
May 11, 2023 CMS Public Health Emergency Flexibilities: Medicare Advantage Organizations, Part D Sponsors, and Medicare-Medicaid Plans By Sofia Sami Introduction On January 31, 2020, then-Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar issued a declaration of...
May 10, 2023 Workforce Waivers: What's Changing with the End of the Public Health Emergency? By Kasie Ray Meera Patel Lisa Taylor Waivers involving the authority and duties of various workforce members will be expiring at the end of the Public Health Emergency (PHE)....
May 09, 2023 Hospitals Without Walls Initiative: What's Changing with the End of the Public Health Emergency? By Kasie Ray Meera Patel Lisa Taylor In March 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the Hospitals Without Walls initiative under the Public...
May 04, 2023 Stark Law Waiver: What's Changing with the End of the Public Health Emergency? By Kasie Ray Meera Patel Lisa Taylor The Stark Law, also known as the physician self-referral law, prohibits physicians from referring patients to receive “designated health...
May 02, 2023 HHS Responds to Calls to Protect Private Medical Records from Being Used Against Those Seeking or Providing Lawful Reproductive Healthcare By Lisa Taylor On April 12, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR), issued a Notice of...
May 02, 2023 A New Telehealth Toolkit By Lisa Taylor On April 25, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General published a toolkit titled “Analyzing...
May 01, 2023 Communications and Marketing Changes from the Medicare Final Rule (CMS-4201-F) By Jeffrey Low The Contract Year 2024 Medicare Final Rule[1] (CMS-4201-F), published on April 12, 2023, provides a number...
Apr 27, 2023 Is your Entity Telehealth HIPAA-Compliant After Public Health Emergency Expiration: By Lisa Taylor Ricardo Pabon-Deglans On April 11, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services through the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced that the Notifications...
Apr 25, 2023 New COVID-19 Healthcare Fraud Enforcement Action from DOJ Highlights Pandemic-Related Risks By Christopher Tonellato Meera Patel Background The Department of Justice announced the largest scale coordinated law enforcement action targeting COVID-19 healthcare fraud...