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Significant New Healthcare Privacy and Cybersecurity Developments

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As the federal government continues to take action in response to events impacting the healthcare landscape, stakeholders must ensure that they are staying up-to-date with health information privacy and security developments...more

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Holland & Knight Health Dose: April 16, 2024

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Holland & Knight Health Dose is an in-depth weekly dose of legislative and regulatory insights to keep stakeholders abreast of happenings in Washington, D.C., impacting the health sector....more

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Key Value-Based Care Developments to Watch in 2024

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The goal of value-based care (VBC) is to promote better care for individual patients and improved health outcomes for communities at reduced costs. This is an important and admirable purpose as many VBC stakeholders attempt...more

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2024 Health Care Predictions

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Happy 2024!  The entire Saul Ewing Health Law Practice Group wishes you and yours a healthy and prosperous new year and successful (and compliant) activities in the health care delivery system this year and beyond....more

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Stricter than HIPAA: Is Your Substance Abuse or Mental Health Program in Compliance With 42 CFR Part 2?

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To protect patients seeking addiction treatment, the federal government passed strict regulations limiting the disclosure of substance abuse patient records. Substance abuse treatment programs must not only comply with the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 18. News Briefs: May 2020

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 18 (May 11, 2020) -  The HHS Office for Civil Rights has posted guidance reminding providers that “the COVID-19 public health emergency does not alter the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s existing...more

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HHS finalizes rules to provide patients more control of their health data

Compliance Today (May 2020) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced in a March 9, 2020, news release that it had “finalized two transformative rules that will give patients unprecedented safe,...more

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HIPAA Security Rule Update Related to COVID-19

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Telehealth Remote Communication Technology - On March 17, 2020, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) will suspend enforcement activities and waive...more

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HHS Publishes New Health Data Interoperability and Patient Access Rules

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On March 9, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published two major regulations that will give patients additional access to their health data, while also addressing security of that information. Health...more

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Report on Medicare Compliance Volume 29, Number 5. News Briefs: February 2020 #2

Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 5 (February 10, 2020)  - David Laufer, the former chief of the Prosthetics and Orthotics Department at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, was charged...more

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Compliance: Top Takeaways from Foley and PYA’s Annual “Let’s Talk Compliance” Event

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For the second year in a row, Foley & Lardner LLP and PYA hosted a compliance master class on various health-related compliance issues. “Let’s Talk Compliance” is an annual one-day event featuring a panel of presenters that...more

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New Patient Rights Rules for Idaho Hospitals

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has implemented new patient rights rules for hospitals effective July 1, 2019. (See IDAPA 16.03.14.220 to .350). The rules were advanced by patient advocacy groups and, to a large...more

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CMS Proposes Rule Regarding the Exchange of Electronic Health Information Which Impacts Hospitals, Clinicians and Government...

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On February 11, 2019, CMS issued a proposed rule, to improve access to electronic health information (the Proposed Rule). The Proposed Rule results from the 21st Century Cures Act (the Cures Act), in which CMS and the Office...more

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K&L Gates Triage: Triage in 2019: Health Care Topics to Watch in the New Year

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As K&L Gates begins its third season of Triage: Rapid Legal Lessons for Busy Health Care Professionals, Hilary Bowman previews several topics that the health care practice group anticipates will have a significant impact on...more

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Shorts on Long Term Care - Fall 2018 - News for the North Carolina LTC Community

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Contract Review Tips for Long-Term Care Facilities - A long-term care facility can execute contracts with many different vendors including food product and service vendors, laundry and linen providers, IT companies, and...more

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CMS Weighs in on Texting of Patient Information

Texting by physicians and other health care providers has long been a hot topic due to the privacy and security considerations involved, although HIPAA and state laws have generally been at the center of this discussion....more

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New SAMHSA Rule: Permissible Part 2 Substance Abuse Disclosures to Subcontractors

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On January 3, 2018, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) issued a final rule to revise 42 CFR Part 2, the federal regulations governing confidentiality of certain substance abuse patients'...more

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Final Rule Modernizes Substance Use Disorder Patient Record Confidentiality Regulations

On January 18, 2017, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released its long-awaited final rule amending the confidentiality regulations at 42 CFR Part 2 (Part 2) that apply to federally...more

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Health Care Matters, Summer 2016

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Special Masters in Health Care Antitrust Merger Cases: Resolving the Conflicting Interests - One of the most challenging aspects of antitrust cases in the health care field is the rich mixture of public interest...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Health Update - July 2016

The Vulnerability of Healthcare Information - According to a report the Brookings Institute issued in May 2016, 23% of all data breaches occur in the healthcare industry. Nearly 90% of healthcare organizations had some...more

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Shorts on Long Term Care - Summer 2014

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In this issue: - Nursing Facility Survey Trends: Directed Plans of Correction, Privacy Violations and FTag 520 Quality Assurance Committee Citations - COBRA Meets ACA – Time to Update COBRA Notices -...more

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ACOs And Pay for Value … About the Data

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It has been over three years since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its proposed rule and guidance on the development and implementation of Accountable Care Organizations. About four million...more

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