12/16/2024 2:23:09 PM HIPAA Reproductive Health Care Final Rule - Compliance Requirements Begin December 23, 2024. Is Your Organization Ready? By Lisa Taylor Kasie Ray Meera Patel On April 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...
8/10/2023 12:54:09 PM Insights for Healthcare Organizations: OIG Final Rule on Information Blocking By Meera Patel Lisa Taylor On June 27, 2023, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its Final Rule on...
6/29/2023 8:56:29 PM New Jersey Healthcare Provider Settles With OCR After Disclosing Patient Information in Response To Negative Online Reviews By Lisa Taylor Meera Patel In recent years, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has imposed some civil monetary penalties on healthcare providers who disclose patient...
5/10/2023 12:30:08 PM 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)....
5/9/2023 12:08:12 PM 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...
5/4/2023 4:12:12 PM 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...
4/25/2023 8:27:08 PM New COVID-19 Healthcare Fraud Enforcement Action from DOJ Highlights Pandemic-Related Risks By Meera Patel Background The Department of Justice announced the largest scale coordinated law enforcement action targeting COVID-19 healthcare fraud...