9/9/2025 4:15:34 PM HHS Announces Crackdown on Health Data Blocking By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle In the first week of September, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a renewed enforcement focus on...
3/19/2025 11:58:38 PM Elimination of the Richardson Waiver Means Changes . . . But To What End? By Scot T. Hasselman Lesley Reynolds David Bender Matthew Loughran +1 more... Show less In February 1971, at the tail end of Richard Nixon’s first term, his Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Elliot Richardson,...
1/16/2025 5:32:51 AM Perceived industry compliance failures prompt stringent proposed HIPAA Security Rule By Nancy Halstead Wendell Bartnick Vicki Tankle Angela Matney Garrison Ambrose +2 more... Show less In an era where cyberattacks on the health care industry have become alarmingly frequent and catastrophic, the U.S. Department of Health...
9/24/2024 8:39:50 PM Private organizations benefit from HHS plan for state and local governmental AI use By Wendell Bartnick Vanessa Perumal Garrison Ambrose The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published its Plan for Promoting Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in...
2/8/2021 2:30:16 PM President Biden implements policies to expand access to health care and coverage By Lauren Bentlage On January 28, 2021, the White House issued President Biden’s Executive Order on Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (the...
10/13/2020 4:59:39 PM New Executive Order seeks to address COVID-19 impact on mental health By Lauren Bentlage Arielle Lusardi On October 5, 2020, the White House issued President Trump’s Executive Order on Saving Lives Through Increased Support for Mental- and...
8/24/2020 8:37:25 PM Federal Court stays repeal of “On the Basis of Sex” definition in recent nondiscrimination final rule one day before regulations take effect By Carol Loepere Rebecca Dittrich Taber Rueter With only one day left before the final rule scaling back nondiscrimination regulations took effect, the U.S. District Court for the...
7/28/2020 6:02:17 PM Final rules modernizing Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law under review by OMB: anticipating the future of value-based care By Rebecca Dittrich David Bender The much-anticipated final rules modernizing the safe harbors under the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the physician self-referral...
7/21/2020 4:34:21 PM HHS releases final rule and fact sheet to clarify Part 2: Standards for Substance Use Disorder Record Protection, Disclosure, and Registry By Catherine David Lauren Bentlage Arielle Lusardi Adriana Santomero +1 more... Show less After nearly a full year of public comment consideration, last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Substance...