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The August Monthly Minute highlights new IRS guidance addressing student loan matching programs, HHS’s increases to civil monetary penalties and Form 5330 paper filing updates....more
On April 22, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) for the United States Department of Health and Human Services issued a Final Rule amending the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...more
On December 10, 2020, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) with proposed modifications to the Standards for the Privacy of...more
Report on Medicare Compliance 29, no. 28 (August 3, 2020) - The 2017 theft of an unencrypted laptop is at the heart of a new HIPAA settlement with Lifespan Health System Affiliated Covered Entity (Lifespan ACE) in Rhode...more
Key Points - This Katten advisory synthesizes several recent major developments impacting the delivery of telehealth services by health care providers in light of the COVID-19 crisis. We cover - - Key steps taken by the...more
On March 17, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced an unprecedented expansion of telehealth services, widening provider access to its 62 million Medicare beneficiaries. It also strongly...more
- Fresenius Medical Care North America Inc. has agreed to pay $5.2 million to settle allegations that it tested dialysis patients for Hepatitis B surface antigen more often than medically necessary and billed Medicare for the...more