On September 26, 2024, the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act was introduced in the U.S. Senate. The bill would amend the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and direct the U.S....more
10/17/2024
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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
7/11/2024
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As we reported previously in this post on our Healthcare Perspectives blog, the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this summer held that the federal government improperly lowered drug reimbursement payments to certain 340B hospitals...more
On October 29, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released an interim final rule with comment period that extends the compliance dates and...more
On March 17, 2020, the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through its Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of Civil Rights (OCR), took action to expand telehealth benefits for...more
3/21/2020
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