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Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up Newsletter | July 2024 Recap

This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for July 2024. We discuss several US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency actions, including a final rule on provider...more

McCarter & English, LLP

More Roadblocks For Information Blocking: HHS Finalizes Rule Establishing Disincentives for Hospitals, Clinicians, and ACOs

On July 31, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) final rule, 89 FR 54662, establishing disincentives for certain healthcare providers that have committed information blocking, will become effective. This...more

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Healthcare Providers Beware: Finalized Disincentives Sharpen the Teeth of Information Blocking Rule

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On June 24, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the 21st...more

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New Penalties Loom for Blocking Access to Patient Health Data

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On July 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule outlining financial penalties, referred to as “disincentives” throughout the rule, for healthcare providers that engage in conduct...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

21st Century Cures Act Information Blocking Rule Finally Has Teeth With Respect to Providers

On July 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) published a final rule...more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

HHS Finalizes Rule Establishing Significant Financial Penalties for Information Blocking by Healthcare Providers

On June 24, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule establishing stringent financial penalties, referred to as “disincentives,” for healthcare providers found to have committed...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

HHS OIG Issues Information-Blocking Disincentives for Certain Health Care Providers

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On June 24, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced a final rule that establishes disincentives for certain health care providers that have committed information...more

McDermott Will & Emery

HHS Issues Provider Information Blocking Disincentives Final Rule

On July 1, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule in...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

HHS Finalizes Healthcare Provider Disincentives for Information Blocking

Recently, the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (“ONC”) announced the...more

King & Spalding

HHS Finalizes Disincentives for Healthcare Providers That Have Committed Information Blocking

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Last week, HHS published its final rule outlining disincentives for certain healthcare providers that have committed information blocking (the Final Rule). The Final Rule also provides information related to OIG’s...more

Baker Donelson

Information Blocking: Disincentives Established for Health Care Providers

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The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has now established disincentives for certain health care providers if found by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to have committed information blocking...more

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HHS Institutes Information Blocking Disincentives for Healthcare Providers

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The long-awaited final reg is upon us! The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released a final regulation earlier this week...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

HHS-OIG Year in Review 2023

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) is tasked with providing objective oversight to protect the integrity and promote the efficiency of Medicare, Medicaid, and more than...more

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Proposed Penalties for Information Blocking Violations

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On October 30, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule establishing penalties for healthcare providers who violate the information blocking rules implemented under the 21st Century...more

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OIG Publishes New Compliance Guidance for Health Care Entities, Along with Plan for Targeted “Industry Specific” Guidance Starting...

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On October 6, 2023, the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) released brand new “General Compliance Program Guidance” to assist health care providers, entities, and other...more

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Key Takeaways from the OIG’s New Comprehensive General Compliance Program Guidance

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG) on November 6, 2023, marking the first update to OIG’s compliance program guidance...more

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New Proposed Rules to Combat Health Information Blocking

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has just unveiled a proposed rule designed to penalize health care providers engaging in information blocking. Information blocking is a practice where health care...more

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HHS Proposes Appropriate Disincentives for Health Care Providers That Commit Information Blocking

In coordination with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) proposed a...more

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HHS Proposes Rule to Establish Penalties for Committing Information Blocking: What Providers Need to Know

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On October 30, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule (Proposed Rule) to establish disincentives for healthcare providers that engage in information blocking under the 21st...more

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HHS Proposes Rule to Establish Disincentives for Healthcare Providers That Engage in Information Blocking

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In 2020, when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its Final Rule to implement the information blocking prohibitions of the 21st Century Cures Act, HHS left healthcare providers wondering what...more

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HHS Proposes Disincentives for Providers that Commit Information Blocking

On November 1, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a proposed rule titled “21st Century Cures Act: Establishment of Disincentives for Health Care Providers That Have Committed Information...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Million Dollar Maybe: Enforcement of Cures Act Information Blocking Prohibitions Begins

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As of September 1, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) can officially begin enforcement against Certified Health Information Technology (“HIT”) developers, health...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Information Blocking Penalties to Take Effect September 1

More than three years after the federal government issued rules to prohibit “information blocking,” penalties for violating those rules are taking effect. September 1 marks the first day on which certain entities may face...more

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Enforcement of Information Blocking Penalties in Health Care IT Begins

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On September 1, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) will begin enforcing information blocking penalties against certain health care information technology (IT) actors as published...more

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OIG Releases Final Rule for Information Blocking Penalties

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On July 3, the Department of Health, and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) published a final rule establishing the statutory civil money penalties created by the 21st Century Cures Act (“Cures Act”)...more

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