HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has added the founder and CEO of the health technology firm Theranos, Inc. to the OIG exclusion list , which means Elizabeth Holmes is prohibited from participation in Federal health care programs for 90 years.

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 14, 2023

9] See OIG Special Advisory Bulletin on Contractual Joint Ventures, April 2003, available at [link] (last accessed Aug. Nothing discussed in this blog post prevents Medicare beneficiaries from obtaining DME via mail or home delivery from a non-physician supplier. [9] 11, 2023)

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

concerned about state citizens’ public health in the era of COVID-19. He was the first person to speak to me about “health citizenship.”. My friend and colleague Denise Silber, with whom I’ve been on the digital health journey from the beginning, lives in France and works globally.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This sentiment has been relatively stable since 2000 except for two big outlying years: a spike of 69% in 2006, and a low-point in 2003 of 42%. See the second chart, reported in a recent study by the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on Being Seriously Ill in the U.S. . Most people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2019

He co-wrote the first “It’s The Prices Stupid” research article in Health Affairs with Gerard Anderson et. back in 2003 — so we’ve known for over 16 years that in the U.S., higher-than-world-average health care spending is mostly about how services are priced, versus whether Americans use more healthcare.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

These two instructions led to the publication of the “ Standards for Electronic Transactions ” in August 2000 and the “ Security Rule Standards ” in February 2003. However, in a separate section of Subtitle F, the Secretary is instructed to submit “recommendations with respect to [the] privacy of certain health information”.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 13, 2022

Consequently, when the Privacy Rule was published in 2003, it was described by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as “a federal floor of privacy protections” that could be preempted by state law if the state law: provided greater privacy protections or privacy rights, provided for the reporting of public health issues, or.

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Innovaare Compliance

MARCH 4, 2024

When a public health emergency (PHE) was in effect, CMS noticed that Part B versus Part D evaluation was omitted. D’ determination (PA 3) is allowed during a beneficiary’s transition period as a utilization management edit. Some plan sponsors failed to perform this evaluation in claim adjudication.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 5, 2023

To find further evidence supporting this statement, you need only visit the Enforcement Highlights page on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website. The page reveals that, since 2003, the agency has received more than 300,000 complaints alleging violations of HIPAA.

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AIHC

MARCH 28, 2022

trillion government-wide from fiscal years 2003 through 2019. trillion COVID-19 response legislation, and making recommendations about how to improve its effectiveness in dealing with public health issues and the economy. These are reimbursements that should not have been made or that were made in incorrect amounts.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The HEAL project recognizes the fact that no one public policy nor single organization can address these factors, nor systemic racism in U.S. health care noted in the IOM report, Unequal Treatment — which was published in 2003. That book called out racial and ethnic disparities in health care in America.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 27, 2022

The extension of international protection to Ukrainian pets raises issues with respect to the legitimate expectations of future refugee populations. Seen from that angle, taking pets at war seriously is indeed a proper ethics challenge. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (LL.M

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2023

Simply put: time spent alone by Americans between 2003 and 2020 grew; time spent with others fell, in some instances like time with friends in dramatic decline downward. And it will be worth it because our need for human connection is like our need for food and water: essential for our survival.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The high-deductible health plan design in fact prevents many people from seeking preventive care or testing: uninsured patients could pay at least $500 for a test, and a 10-day hospital stay can tally $75,000 according to Gerard Anderson , professor of public health at Johns Hopkins.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A Bipartisan Program Politicized by the Abortion Debate Since its bipartisan inception in 2003, PEPFAR has saved 25 million lives and prevented 5.5 It has subsequently been reauthorized by Republican and Democratic Congresses in 2008, 2013, and 2018 and earned praise as “one of the most successful global health programs in modern history.”

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Bill of Health

APRIL 21, 2022

Per results from a 2003 study, in Germany — a country with an opt-in system requiring individuals to sign up for the organ donation registry — donation rates were estimated to be around 12%. At least anecdotally, quasi-naturalistic experimental results from Europe demonstrate the merits of properly implemented opt-out frameworks.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This constitutional right is further supported by the National Health Act and its Regulations relating to the artificial fertilization of persons, and the regulations relating to tissue, cells, organs, blood, blood products and gametes.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

So only in America in the coronavirus pandemic have millions of people lost their health security just when folks would be most needful of access to health care services: during a public health crisis. Race matters for health insurance in America. Onward, health citizens.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Bush introduced HSAs by signing into law the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. The intent was to “ [e]mpower[] Americans to take charge of their health care decision-making.” A quarter of a century after FSAs were introduced, President George W.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

Arguably, gun policy can cut in two ways: in light of the Stoneman Douglas High School shootings and wake-up call for #NeverAgain among both students and the public-at-large, vis-a-vis Second Amendment issue voters. And, as a growing public health issue, “guns” could also be adjacent to health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

The bar chart, Exhibit 5 from the report, is always important to examine as it reflects the very-American situation of spending as price times utilization — where “it’s been the prices, stupid” since Uwe Reinhardt and team wrote their seminal work on the role of health care prices in U.S.

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SQA

AUGUST 8, 2023

FDA has received and continues to receive (most recently in early 2023) reports about fatal poisonings of consumers who ingested drug products in a liquid dosage form (such as cough, allergy, analgesic, and antiemetic drug products) that were manufactured with DEG- or EG-contaminated components.

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SQA

AUGUST 8, 2023

United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – Regulations and Guidances Testing of Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Maltitol Solution, Hydrogenated Starch Hydrolysate, Sorbitol Solution, and Other High-Risk Drug Components for Diethylene Glycol and Ethylene Glycol, May 2003 This guidance is intended to alert pharmaceutical manufacturers, compounders, (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

"For us, that familiarity helped when the public health emergency hit because many of our patients understood not only how to use it, but why it worked for connecting with their doctor." The physicians in Cary Medical Group's practice have been using Allscripts Professional EHR since 2003. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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SQA

AUGUST 1, 2024

These variations are required to be assessed by the authorities based on their impact on public health and the medicine’s characteristics. Since it was last revised, the Variations Regulation has made a marked contribution in harmonizing and aligning the lifecycle management of medicines post-authorization across the EU.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 5, 2025

The labeling system was developed in 2017 by the French public health agency and has been implemented by France, Belgium, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany. Adoption of the standardized system has been recommended by both the European Commission and World Health Organization (WHO). But these criteria had limitations.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JULY 22, 2022

509(a), Governor Murphy issued an Executive Order updating and clarifying timeframes for requiring covered workers at health care facilities and high-risk congregate settings to be up-to-date with their COVID-19 vaccinations, including having received a booster shot. On April 4, 2022, at 54 N.J.R. See Executive Order No. 290 (2022).

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Bill of Health

MARCH 28, 2025

Public Health Poor Transparency and Corruption in Disease Reporting Could Precipitate the Next Pandemic One of the growing public health concerns this year is the Bird flu, or avian influenza A(H5N1) 2.3.4.4b During the 2003 SARS outbreak, lead whistleblower Dr. Jiang was put under house arrest for his outspokenness.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In particular, the continuing commitment to PEPFAR — the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief — was expanded in a five-year strategy with the explicit goal of ending global HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. million babies to be born HIV-free across 55 countries since its inception in 2003,” the press release explained.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When Congress passed a federal law banning the procedure in 2003, the bill did not include a health exception. This strategy became especially salient during the fight over dilation and extraction, a procedure that the antiabortion movement called partial-birth abortion.

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Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 4, 2024

2003); Birdsong v. The PREP Act goes into effect upon a federal declaration of public health emergency. The relevant legislative history demonstrates that Congress enacted the PREP Act in 2005: To encourage the expeditious development and deployment of medical countermeasures during a public health emergency. . . [by]

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 12, 2022

If the antivaxxers win in DeCostanzo , then society as a whole loses, because as the Supreme Court stated in Bruesewitz , “the elimination of communicable diseases through vaccination” is “one of the greatest achievements of public health in the 20th century.” 2003), and Doe v. at 226 (footnote and quotation marks omitted).

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