The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has, as part of its mandate, the responsibility to enforce the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule....more
5/14/2024
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In the midst of an industry reeling from the Change Healthcare cybersecurity incident, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has issued a series of final rules requiring...more
Two divisions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) – the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) – released the "21st Century Cures Act:...more
11/1/2023
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Electronic Health Record Incentives ,
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Hospitals ,
Information Blocking Rules ,
Medicare ,
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Proposed Rules
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently posted the final rule establishing civil monetary penalties (CMPs) for information blocking (IB Enforcement Rule). The Rule...more
7/18/2023
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Civil Monetary Penalty ,
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Fraud Abuse and Waste ,
Fraud and Abuse ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Health Technology ,
Information Blocking Rules ,
Information Technology ,
OIG ,
ONC
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) on April 11, 2023, released a Notice of Proposed Rule Making called the Health Data,...more
4/28/2023
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Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Technology ,
Information Blocking Rules ,
Machine Learning ,
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ONC ,
PHI ,
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Patients may think they own their medical records. While patients certainly have the right to access and, in many cases, control how their health information is used and disclosed, medical records ownership can be murky....more
2/9/2022
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Electronic Medical Records ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Information Technologies ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Information Blocking Rules ,
Medical Records ,
ONC ,
Patient Access ,
Physicians
Earlier this year, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published a final rule (ONC Rule) addressing interoperability, information blocking and patient access to data. The ONC Rule...more
10/20/2020
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Criminal Convictions ,
Damages ,
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Double Damages ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Fraud ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Information Blocking Rules ,
Kickbacks ,
Medical Devices ,
Medical Records ,
Medicare ,
ONC ,
PACT Act ,
Self-Referral ,
Willful Violations
Allergy Associates of Hartford, P.C., entered into a Resolution Agreement and agreed to pay $125,000 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (HHS) in order to settle certain Health...more
Medicaid -
Florida's Medicaid Third-Party Liability Act Pre-empted by Federal Law -
By Eddie Williams -
In Gallardo v. Dudek, Sec. of Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, No. 4:16cv116-MW/CAS, 2017 WL...more
6/7/2017
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Antitrust Violations ,
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False Claims Act (FCA) ,
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Medicaid ,
Medicaid Act ,
Misrepresentation ,
Noerr-Pennington Doctrine ,
OCR ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmacies ,
Preemption ,
Prescription Drugs ,
Sherman Act ,
Stark Law ,
Third-Party Liability ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices ,
Warning Labels
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights recently published guidance to assist covered entities by explaining how the United States Supreme Court's decision regarding the Defense of Marriage Act...more