HIPAA Journal

JUNE 9, 2023

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that it could not support “such a boundless interpretation” of the Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act of 2004. Under the Government’s own reading, such cases are ‘automatically identity theft,’ independent of whether the name itself had anything to do with the fraudulent aspect of the offense.”

Fraud 107

Fraud Medicaid Medicaid Doctors 107

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

As part of the government-funded program, Avel eCARE also provided critical care consulting to a small community hospital that was inundated with COVID-19 patients. In 2004, Avel evolved to begin providing 24/7 on-demand services.

COVID-19 190

COVID-19 Telemedicine Hospitals Governance 190

McGuire Wood

MARCH 3, 2023

Founded in 2004, the company supports biopharmaceutical companies, contract research organizations, academic institutions and government agencies. Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP) has announced it has completed a growth investment in OpenClinica. OpenClinica , based in Waltham, Mass., is a clinical research solutions provider.

Governance 52

Governance Compliance 52

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Combined with RLDatix’s existing governance, risk, compliance (GRC) and workforce management offerings, Porzio Life Sciences broadens the company’s capabilities across life sciences and provides a comprehensive set of tools at global scale. – Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Compliance 52

Compliance Governance 52

Kaiser Health News

APRIL 14, 2022

But “desperation” to recruit nurses also exacerbated existing flaws in the government infrastructure intended to hold nurses accountable, said John Benson, co-founder of Verisys, a data management company that researches potential employees for health care systems. . “The system was broken before covid,” Benson said.

Nurses 131

Nurses Hospitals Licensing Governance 131

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

a power Visa and ultimately the government could not deny. healthcare facilities were found to have an EHR system fully implemented by 2004. The discussion around how to integrate an open-protocol approach into a complicated system governed by HIPAA has been going on for years. Many are still making the transition.

Electronic Medical Records 98

Electronic Medical Records HIPAA Pharmaceutical Industry Governance 98

The Health Law Firm

JULY 11, 2012

Maury Regional Hospital, located in Columbia, Tennesse, has agreed to pay the federal government over $3.5 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that occurred between 2004 and 2009. By Miles Indest.

US Department of Health and Human Services 40

US Department of Health and Human Services Hospitals Compliance Governance 40

The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015. I’d like to discuss what I believe are five areas of significant opportunity for quality technologies. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes.

Patient Satisfaction 87

Patient Satisfaction Hospitals FDA Governance 87

Verisys

DECEMBER 29, 2024

NPIs are critical for maintaining accountability across healthcare transactions, ensuring accurate reporting, and streamlining electronic communication across private and government health insurance programs. The NPI Final Rule, published on January 23, 2004, mandated the use of NPIs as the standard provider identifier.

HIPAA 52

HIPAA Fraud Health Insurance Medicare 52

AIHC

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This was originally mandated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) back in 1997 and implemented in 2004. The OIG made the following recommendations to Humana: Refund to the Federal Government the $6.8 HCC coding relies on ICD-10-CM coding to assign risk scores to patients.

Overpayments 52

Overpayments Overpayment Compliance Medicare 52

NY Health Law

JUNE 25, 2019

The unlicensed are not bound by the ethical rules that govern the quality of care delivered by a physician to a patient. By statute, regulation, and the common law, the corporate form cannot be used as a device to allow nonphysicians to control the practice of medicine.”. v Mallela , 372 F3d 500, 503 (2d Cir.

Fraud 52

Fraud Licensing Governance Health Insurance 52

AIHC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) HCC model was initiated in 2004 and is becoming increasingly prevalent as the environment shifts to value-based payment models. Data Governance Metrics: These include metrics related to data cataloging, metadata management, and data stewardship practices.

Medicare 59

Medicare Medicare Medicaid Medicaid 59

SQA

APRIL 30, 2021

726/2004, 09 March 2021. 726/2004 , which essentially means duplicate MAAs for products authorized via the centralized procedure. Meeting of the Government Coordination Council to Control the Incidence of the Novel Coronavirus Infection in the Russian Federation, 06 April 2021. Under Article 82(1) of Regulation (EC) No.

COVID-19 Vaccine 52

COVID-19 Vaccine COVID-19 Compliance Governance 52

Healthcare Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Inside and outside healthcare counsel should know that the way they guide clients through legal and business issues may need to change based on a recent Ninth Circuit case governing the protections afforded to attorney-client communications, In re Grand Jury. [1] C-02-1786 JSW (EMC), 245, 248, 2004 U.S. 23, 2004). [4]

Compliance 52

Compliance Fraud Governance 52

Hall Render

JANUARY 27, 2023

The main drivers of the increase in filings were increased labor and supply costs, interest rate increases, lack of government stimulus funds and lower investment returns. In 2004, 122 CON applications were filed compared to 36 in 2021 and only 18 in 2022.

Medicaid 40

Medicaid Medicaid Hospitals Governance 40

AIHC

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Respect is earned, not automatically “given,” after achieving a credential such as “ Certified Healthcare Auditor ” which has been offered by the American Institute of Healthcare Compliance since 2004. Follow the Basic Audit Principles The principles listed below are taken from ASQ (American Society for Quality).

Compliance 52

Compliance Governance 52

AIHC

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) HCC model was initiated in 2004 and is becoming increasingly prevalent as the environment shifts to value-based payment models. Data Governance Metrics: These include metrics related to data cataloging, metadata management, and data stewardship practices.

Medicare 52

Medicare Medicare Medicaid Medicaid 52

HIPAA Journal

JUNE 25, 2023

Gmail was not launched until 2004. Naturally, the software can be used to ensure other confidential information (governed by other regulations) remains private and is protected against unauthorized access. Web clients (i.e., Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) Consequently, Congress’ instructions to the Secretary of the U.S.

HIPAA 52

HIPAA Compliance Compliance Officers Ransomware 52

SQA

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Time frame for Accepting CE Marked Medical Devices in Great Britain Extended, 01 July 2023 The United Kingdom (UK) government has made regulations ( The Medical Devices (Amendment) (Great Britain) Regulations 2023 ) that enable CE marked medical devices to be accepted in Great Britain for defined periods beyond 30 June 2023.

FDA 40

FDA Compliance Licensing World Health 40

SQA

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Time frame for Accepting CE Marked Medical Devices in Great Britain Extended, 01 July 2023 The United Kingdom (UK) government has made regulations ( The Medical Devices (Amendment) (Great Britain) Regulations 2023 ) that enable CE marked medical devices to be accepted in Great Britain for defined periods beyond 30 June 2023.

FDA 40

FDA Compliance Licensing World Health 40

Bill of Health

JANUARY 5, 2023

Kocoras ruled that the need to safeguard patient privacy (especially given vulnerabilities of prior medical history) outweighed the “little, if any, probative value” of the data to the government. The 2003-2004 National Abortion Federation v. In San Francisco, U.S. Dobbs has begun writing the next chapter within this ongoing debate.

Doctors 195

Doctors Hospitals Governance Compliance 195

Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

Some children may be unvaccinated by no choice of their own, but instead because of decisions made by parents, guardians, or state or local government officials. 2004) (“[T] the fundamental right to an opportunity for an education does not guarantee that a student cannot temporarily forfeit educational services through his own conduct.

COVID-19 Vaccine 130

COVID-19 Vaccine COVID-19 Informed Consent Governance 130

Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

federal government’s oversight wheels began to grind into a different gear, signaling that they did not like that a Chinese firm was gaining such access to U.S. Following a review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the government mandated that iCarbonX divest its ownership in PLM. But the U.S.

Health Insurance 86

Health Insurance Pharmaceutical Industry HIPAA Bioethics 86

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

adults in May 2004. Surprisingly, there are many health policies on which Democrats and Republicans concur, as found in a series of YouGov polls conducted in May 2024. YouGov fielded the health policies poll in five waves online, each among roughly 1,100 U.S.

Medicare 62

Medicare Medicare Prescription Drug Pricing Public Health 62

Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Mary’s welcome new board members Northeast Georgia Health System named one of nation’s top workplaces for diversity HAWAII How Adventist Health Castle achieved becoming a verified Level III Trauma Center Queen’s debuts $4.5M

Nursing Homes 40

Nursing Homes US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses Hospitals 40

Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 31, 2025

The metric illustrated here in the fourth chart from the report shows us that childhood vaccination rates continued to decline in the 2023-24 school year, discussed in a Kaiser Family Foundation report published in November 2004.

Public Health 59

Public Health US Department of Health and Human Services Governance Health Insurance 59

Drug & Device Law

JANUARY 15, 2024

That is significant because, unlike (now) every other state in the country, since 1987 Pennsylvania precedent prohibited defendants from introducing evidence of their compliance with government and/or industry standards (“standards compliance” or “compliance” evidence, for short) in strict liability design defect cases – generally.

Compliance 52

Compliance FDA Governance State Policy 52

Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The amendment clarifies that the preponderance standard applies to the three reliability-based requirements added in 2000 − requirements that many courts have incorrectly determined to be governed by the more permissive Rule 104(b) standard. 2004) (relying on language from other decisions following Loudermill ). emphasis added).

Governance 52

Governance 52

Drug & Device Law

OCTOBER 23, 2023

at 349 (“The FDCA leaves no doubt that it is the Federal Government rather than private litigants who are authorized to file suit for noncompliance”). Norabuena is fully supported by general Illinois law, which consistently rejects warning-based tort claims based on claimed failure to make reports to any government agency.

FDA 59

FDA Governance Nurses Hospitals 59

Drug & Device Law

JULY 31, 2023

2004) (“Movable or transferable property; personal property; esp[ecially], a physical object capable of manual delivery”). Since digital files were not “articles” under the statute, the government could not rely on this statute to prevent their importation. Restatement §402A, comments a, d-e. A “chattel” is a “physical object.”

Governance 52

Governance Payment Systems Hospitals Licensing 52

Drug & Device Law

JUNE 1, 2023

2004 WL 2827710, at *6 (Del. 15, 2004); Goodridge v. 2004) (“the trial judge” is “a gatekeeper of expert opinion”). 2004); Clark v. Thus, “trial courts have a role in assessing the reliability of scientific evidence beyond mere reliance on an expert witness’ belief that a methodology is reliable.” 2d 978, 995 (Conn.

Governance 59

Governance Hospitals 59

Drug & Device Law

APRIL 10, 2023

Abbott Laboratories , 2004 WL 3245947, at *6 (Ind. Plaquemines Parish Government , 982 So.2d 2004 WL 3313614, at *14 (W.D. 17, 2004); Jones v. 2004); Redland Soccer Club v. Old National Bancorp , 499 F.3d 3d 629, 639 & n.10 10 (7th Cir. 2007); Hunt v. July 31, 2002); Johnson v. Iowa : Pickrell v. Iowa 2018).

Malpractice 59

Malpractice Governance Hospitals 59

Drug & Device Law

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The shoulder cases (most of which are brought by adults) now make up some 75% of current Vaccine Act claims, according to statistics discussed at the Vaccine Law Conference. Blackmon v. American Home Products Corp. , 2d 647, 653 (S.D.

Nurses 59

Nurses Governance Hospitals 59

Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The [statute] does not expressly limit damages to only natural resources belonging to the Commonwealth but, rather, appears to authorize damages for natural resources that the Commonwealth and/or the federal government and/or any local governments manage, hold in trust, or otherwise control. . . . 2004), General Public Utilities v.

Governance 72

Governance Compliance 72