Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In the first data breach event, a Maine based pharmacy reported a data breach that was discovered in May 2021 when suspicious activity was detected in an employee email account. After an investigation, it was determined that seven email accounts had been compromised between January 2021 and May 2021.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

All those digital tools generate data, which must flow into some version of a patient health record to ensure the data are collected, safely stored, and accessible for diagnosis and sound action-making and -taking. What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records. population health burden.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

people who are part of Native and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaska Native, Hispanic and Latinx, and Black (non-Hispanic) communities were more likely to have had a COVID-19 diagnosis in the first fourteen months of the pandemic than people were White or Asian citizens. of Hispanic and LatinX people (19% of U.S.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic hit Africa hard and overwhelmed the capacity to test for and treat the disease, highlighting existing gaps within its national health systems. Health resources are unevenly distributed and often of poor quality. Hesitancy: a convenient scapegoat.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021. than on white people.

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Hall Render

MAY 13, 2022

FDA limits J&J COVID-19 vaccine due to rare blood clot risk. Travel nurses raced to help during Covid. Advocate Aurora Health, Atrium Health to form $27 billion system. UChicago Medicine invests $607 million in community benefits for South Side and Southland regions in fiscal 2021. HHS awards $16.3M

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

Department of Labor (“DOL”), the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and the Department of Treasury (collectively, “the Agencies”) issued guidance, including Disaster Relief Notice 2021-01 , to provide relief for employee benefit plans, plan participants and beneficiaries.

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Hall Render

APRIL 22, 2022

Fields, Prax discuss DHSS split, other Alaska health care initiatives. Skagway officials weigh the future of the town’s health clinic and housing shortages. Banner Health to build new hospital in Buckeye. Bill banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates heads to Ducey’s desk. UAMS Study Finds Marshallese in U.S.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

CMS gives nursing homes a longer leash on staff COVID-19 vaccination requirements. New vice president named at Baptist Health Lexington. Murray State partners with health insurance company to address health care worker shortage. EKU, Baptist Health announce naming rights partnership.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In administrative law disputes, a critical aspect of public health law, clear statement rules enforce separation of powers. Supreme Court decisions issued in 2021 and 2022 demonstrate this vertical constraint. OSHA , which limited federal authority to regulate worker safety with COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The pandemic also revealed that the United States has failed to draft efficient health insurance policies. million people lost health insurance, as it was employer-based. The American Rescue Plan of 2021 is a great initiative in this regard, and the people of America need more.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 4, 2024

in Lebanon site for new ‘medicine foundry’ Methodist Hospital to come tumbling down after IU Health opens new hospital Behavioral Health Commission wraps up two-year study with $50M ask $120M more needed for Indiana’s behavioral health infrastructure, report says Marathon Health expands network to 720 locations Elevance Health to make $11.9M

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Hall Render

APRIL 15, 2022

EKY health leader reflects on COVID pandemic, sees positive change in two years. Clark Memorial Health adds to its C-suite. Bills to Curb Health Emergency Powers Advance in Louisiana. Bill would block COVID-19 vaccine requirements in Louisiana. Oregon 3D health technology startup raises $6M.

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Hall Render

JULY 8, 2022

Naples resident launches pelvic health clinic after personally benefiting from results. MorseLife Nursing Home Health System Agrees to Pay $1.75 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations for Facilitating COVID-19 Vaccinations of Ineligible Donors and Prospective Donors. in community benefits in 2021.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into law in 1996 and while there have been some significant HIPAA updates over the last two decades, the last set of major HIPAA updates occurred in 2013 with the introduction of the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule.

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Hall Render

APRIL 26, 2024

MASSACHUSETTS High demand is pushing hospitals past their limits, say Southeastern Mass.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 28, 2022

Number of Arizona inpatients with COVID up by nearly 50% since end of 2021. Many Arizona nursing home residents are vaccinated but not boosted. Banner Health expects hospitalizations to peak in mid-February from recent omicron surge. Arkansas health officials ask state for $400M to cover increased Medicaid costs.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Indianapolis health care giant must face federal lawsuit alleging Medicare fraud. Indiana hospitals report losing about $3B since the start of 2021. Growing midwife program could help maternal health in Indiana. Luke’s reaches settlement with ProMedica’s health insurance division. West Virginia, Health Dept.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Here’s why Grady Health System recognized as health care I.T. Million Health Care Fraud Conspiracy in Idaho Orthopedic activity in the 5 most underserved states St. Minnesota system latest to drop weight loss drug coverage for employees Twin Cities Orthopedics opens 70K-square-foot campus Minn. But it faces a fiscal cliff.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Rogers Behavioral Health opens first Colorado location in Arapahoe County. As RSV cases fill Colorado hospitals, health officials preparing for respiratory illness ‘trifecta’. Cost of health insurance on Colorado’s marketplace to rise 10% next year. Waterbury Woman Who Created False COVID-19 Vaccine Records is Sentenced.

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Hall Render

APRIL 7, 2023

in 2022 Pediatric clinic will buy Kaleideum building in downtown Winston-Salem Why this Raleigh pharma just cut half its workforce Finding good health care in rural eastern N.C. Luke’s discriminated against employees granted religious exemptions to getting COVID-19 vaccine Rothman Orthopaedics’ CEO exits St.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The reputation of the pharmaceutical industry gained a “whopping” 30 points between January 2020 and February 2021, based on the latest Harris Poll in their research into industries’ reputations. Looking forward, the test of the sustainability of upwardly-mobile pharma reputation in 2021 and 2022 will be drug pricing.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Since the introduction of COVID vaccines in 2021, if not before, Democratic leaders have rolled back mandates and devolved the responsibility of preventing disease to individuals and families. In a recent comparison of health system performance in 11 high-income countries, the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Today, the day after Pfizer announced a 90% benefit for its coronavirus vaccine, bolstering Wall Street returns on 9th November 2020, two new consumer polls inspire the question about a field of dreams effect among U.S. health citizens contemplating taking a COVID-19 vaccine.

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Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

Virus hospitalizations at lowest point in Alabama since 2021. Wiregrass hospital navigates through COVID pandemic without travel nurses. Number of COVID hospitalizations in Delaware lowest since early August. AdventHealth’s operating income nears $1B in 2021. Florida health system CEO resigns. NEW JERSEY.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

of Iowa Health Care North Liberty campus Ex-nurse at Sioux City nursing home tied to deaths says she was ordered to falsify records Mercy, St. s health care industry leaders focus on job development COVID levels in RI dipped during the summer. Luke’s panel explores Pa.’s out of 5 NCQA rating R.I.’s

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Front and center will be homelessness and health care, top priorities for voters — and issues that have largely defined the governors’ policies and leadership styles. From abortion to covid-19 vaccines, Newsom and DeSantis could not be further apart. per 100,000 people in 2021. per 100,000 people in 2021.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

to resolve False Claims allegations Q&A with Ken DeFurio, CEO of the new Independence Health System St.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2021

So you might think that the most important public priority for Congress might have something to do with COVID-19, vaccines, or health insurance coverage. adults said that allowing the federal government and private insurance plans to negotiate for lower prices on Rx drugs was their top priority.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Will health consumers who used virtual care settings continue to do so once the pandemic eases, say in the second quarter of 2021? Health insurance markets after the 2020 election: there are many scenarios we’re exploring for this factor. by “early November,” just around the U.S.

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