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Investigations Newsletter: Federal Court Imposes Nearly $1 Billion in FCA Damages and Penalties Against Omnicare and CVS

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Federal Court Imposes Nearly $1 Billion in FCA Damages and Penalties Against Omnicare and CVS - On July 7, Southern District of New York District Judge Colleen McMahon increased a False Claims Act (FCA) judgment from $136...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Disclosure of Full Record to Employer Results in $35K Fine, Broad CAP; Echoes of 2017 HIV Case

It’s not immediately obvious why someone would want to disclose a health care test result as part of a job application. But one such request spurred a Pennsylvania entity to provide a lot more than that: it sent her whole...more

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Hospital Administrators – Is Your Hospital Cyber-Secure?

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On October 2, 2024, New York adopted new regulations requiring general hospitals to implement heightened cybersecurity safeguards. General hospitals, as defined in Article 28 of the NY Public Health Law, generally must begin...more

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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

Holland & Hart LLP

Avoiding HIPAA Penalties: A Checklist for Covered Entities

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The HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules apply to healthcare providers who engage in certain electronic transactions, healthcare clearinghouses, and health plans, including employee group health plans with...more

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HHS Health Care Cybersecurity Performance Goals: Proposed Incentives, Penalties and Compliance Standards

As promised in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concept paper in December 2023, the agency published voluntary health care and public health cybersecurity performance goals (HPH CPGs) in January 2024 and...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

HHS Office of Inspector General October 2023 Enforcement Activity

The following is a summary of selected federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports of fraud and abuse enforcement activity across the country. The enforcement actions reported...more

Snell & Wilmer

2023 End-of-Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists (Part 1) Health and Welfare

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We are pleased to present our annual End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we present our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. This Part 1 covers year-end health and welfare plan issues....more

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HIPAA and Accounting Cybersecurity Update

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It is a strange combination of events today, but two different agencies released reports on cybersecurity issues that all companies should consider when looking at their systems, controls and checks. The U.S. Department of...more

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2017 HIPAA Enforcement – Appears Not To Be Slowing Down

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To state the obvious, there has been some uncertainty regarding how the Trump Administration will affect federal agency enforcement efforts. However, at least, in regard to HIPAA Privacy and Security, the U.S. Department of...more

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Employer Paid Individual Health Insurance Policies Create the Potential for Significant Penalties, But Limited Relief Is Available

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Despite guidance from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), the Department of Labor (“DOL”) and the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) indicating the prohibition of the practice under the Affordable Care Act...more

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