Bill of Health

MARCH 30, 2022

Department of Defense (DoD) put in place requirements for service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Litigation has since ensued over the military branches’ restrictive approach to religious exemptions to vaccination. The Navy, so far, has granted only one religious exemption to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Initial findings are expected by the end of January 2022. COVID-19 exposed health disparities across the country, as death rates have been higher among people from ethnic minorities. It will also examine MRI scanners, which are not recommended for use for pregnant or breastfeeding women. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Liability shields in the pandemic context may also be interpreted as “symbolic gestures by state legislators who were desperate to point to action at a time when government at all levels seemed paralyzed in the face of COVID.” The laws might also hint at the priorities of legislators, by protecting business interests over public health.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

After the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large employers was withdrawn last month , many pronounced private employers to be “on their own” to make decisions about vaccine requirements for their employees. A Fifth Circuit Outlier.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 17, 2023

Two pharmaceutical giants of the pandemic, Moderna and BioNTech, are taking steps for increasing the manufacturing capacity for the COVID-19 vaccine in Africa. Last March, Moderna announced its plan to set up a manufacturing facility in Kenya to produce messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including COVID-19 shots.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2023

By Aparajita Lath Two articles published last month in the BMJ analyze the public investment and financing of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting the extensive government funding that has supported the development of mRNA technology from 1985 to 2022. It is generally known that the U.S.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 25, 2023

6 This didn’t stop her from making a nearly identical podcast in May 2022 titled “Living with COVID,” 7 which declared “we now have all the necessary tools to end the COVID ‘emergency phase’. 8 She said that, due to high rates of immunity, “since March of 2022 we’ve seen very little severe disease in the hospital.”

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

.” As we enter Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and civic chasms and economic uncertainty (inflation, health care costs, Great Resignations), I took this page out of Dr, Seuss in my last monthly post for Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. > consumers are “shrugging off” Omicron.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A mother and her two daughters have been charged for providing fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards to maintain and obtain employment at a New York nursing home. Vaccination is mandatory for nursing home employment in New York. They are scheduled to appear in court on March 14, 2022. Update your policy as needed.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Vaccines are pharmaceutical products, a critical tool in public and global health. At the same time, they are regularly treated as commodities , often in ways that are completely divorced from their public health value. Operative criteria of “burden” and related considerations (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange An FDA project aims to make it as easy as possible for clinicians to report adverse drug events and share important clinical data with public health agencies to investigate the event.

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Health Law Attorney

MARCH 16, 2022

In an effort to combat the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), the Dept. The Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) oversees and processes the claims for reimbursement on behalf of the HHS. on March 22, 2022 – the Uninsured Program will stop accepting claims for testing and treatment.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. during the public health crisis.

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AJPH

DECEMBER 22, 2021

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 17-20, January 2022.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a public health emergency, pharmaceutical manufacturers’ liability concerns can slow the deployment of urgently needed vaccines and other medical countermeasures (MCMs). Products used during public health emergencies raise unique issues either because of their novelty, scale and type of proposed use, or regulatory pathway.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2022

By showing health equity issues on a map, several organizations and individuals who presented at the 2022 Esri User Conference were able to spur action and direct resources to the areas that needed it the most. In 2019, the County of Milwaukee became the first jurisdiction in the country to declare racism a public health crisis.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To design systems and policies that promote the right to health, a holistic and proactive approach is needed, one in which people, institutions, and corporations have a shared responsibility in promoting physical, mental, and social well-being. health care system. COVID-19 and the U.S. By the end of 2022, nearly 1.7

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

health care: “Wake up, public health!” ” I’ve pulled out a few of the data points that speak to me about population health, prevention and early diagnosis (or lack thereof), and alarm bells on women’s health — notably, young women and girls.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2022

Note: This article has been revised to include information on the Group 2 states as of January 18, 2022. The timeframes are based on the issuance date of each of the QSO Memos, which was December 28, 2021 for the Group 1 QSO Memo and January 14, 2022 for the Group 2 QSO Memo.

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YouCompli

MARCH 29, 2023

In this article, she discusses several issues that hospitals and health systems need to consider as a result of the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) reports that 80% of the U.S. Find out how.

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 20, 2022

As Public Health Emergency (PHE) has extended beyond 16 th April 2022 by 90 days, various waivers are continued, making no change in billing guidelines in pandemic. In fact, concerned authority extended the current COVID-19 pandemic telehealth waivers for five months beyond the end of the public health emergency.

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Health Law Pulse

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Although receiving the COVID-19 vaccine remains one of the best ways to combat the severity of one’s symptoms, Dr. Van Kerkhove warned that the vaccine could become less effective as the virus continues to evolve. The post COVID-19 Update: New Variants and Vaccine Research appeared first on Health Law Pulse.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

health citizens’ memories will last into 2022 with respect to cross-party desire for the U.S. Transparency and education are essential to building trust in vaccines, Edelman concludes in this study, noting that 64% of U.S. to approve Medicare’s negotiation of drug prices with pharmaceutical companies].

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AJPH

DECEMBER 22, 2021

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 29-33, January 2022.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 23, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a threat brief providing information on the cyber organizations of the Russian Intelligence Services which pose a threat to organizations in the United States, including the healthcare and public health (HPH) sector.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 26, 2023

In the context of HIPAA enforcement discretion, the Secretary can waive sanctions and penalties that result from non-compliance with the following standards of the Privacy Rule: 164.510 – Uses and disclosures of Protected Health Information requiring an opportunity for the individual to agree or object.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 13, 2022

Supreme Court today (January 13, 2022) issued a stay of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard that would have forced all private employers in the country with more than 100 workers to require COVID-19 vaccinations or masks and weekly testing for unvaccinated staff.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Federal government spent unprecedented trillions of dollars throughout the COVID public health emergency (PHE). In April 2022, officials at the U.S. Remember when immunizations for COVID first became available? So, it should come as no surprise that we are seeing significant auditing and enforcement activity.

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Health Care Law Brief

DECEMBER 22, 2021

On November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its Calendar Year (CY) 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (“PFS”) Final Rule. Vaccinations. CMS will continue to reimburse $40 per dose of the COVID-19 vaccine through the end of the calendar year in which the public health emergency ends.

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Kaiser Health News

MAY 31, 2022

One major vaccine proposal survives, but faces an uphill battle. It would allow children ages 12 to 17 to get a covid-19 vaccine without parental permission. Democrats blamed the failure of their vaccine mandates on the changing nature and perception of the pandemic. . In October 2021 , Democratic Gov.

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Verisys

JUNE 13, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services : The US Department of Health and Human Services has issued a final rule update concerning guidelines for COVID-19 vaccination requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities (LTC) and Intermediate Care for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICFs-IID).

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic and its destructive impact was central to many of the discussions that took place. Among them, was the issue of vaccine hesitancy around the world, especially in underdeveloped nations such as those in Africa.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

Also in 2020, CMS issued an interim final regulation to require that SNFs notify SNF residents and their representatives to keep them informed of the conditions inside the SNF, including COVID cases in the SNFs. In the CY 2022 Rule, CMS set December 31, 2024, as a termination date for most COVID SNF notification requirements.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has armed surveyors with detailed instructions on how to survey skilled nursing facilities for compliance with the CMS staff vaccine requirements. The surveyor’s Entrance Conference Worksheet update includes COVID-19 Vaccine review and COVID-19 Staff Vaccination Matrix.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 14, 2022

In a January 13 statement , CMS clarified that the decision would not change the compliance deadlines for health care employers in the 25 states, territories and the District of Columbia, where the CMS IFR was already in effect. Thus, OSHA’s vaccine-or-test ETS may well be beyond the scope of authority that Congress granted the agency.

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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. Alaska COVID-19 hospitalizations increase slightly. Arizona Hospital Safety Grades 2022: The Best And Worst. Banner invests in Atlas Health Partners, plans to double ASC footprint.

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Hall Render

MAY 20, 2022

AHA asks HHS to continue the public health emergency until conditions stabilize. Considerations for Social Determinants of Health Screening Design. COVID-19 public health emergency set to be extended. Covid-19 remains a public health emergency in US, administration says.

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