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...
5/11/2021 6:44:04 PM HHS to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity By David Bender On May 10, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced that— consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision in...
2/10/2021 4:08:48 PM What happens when the clock strikes midnight: A Primer on “Midnight Regulations” By Andrew Lu With another presidential transition in the history books, you may find it unsurprising to hear that many of us at Reed Smith are...
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...
12/10/2020 9:43:20 PM Long-Awaited issuance of Section 340B ADR final rule By Joseph Metro James Segroves In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to issue regulations to establish an...
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...
10/2/2020 7:36:05 PM Patient access to health information at the forefront of government initiatives and scrutiny By Nancy Halstead Vicki Tankle Even amidst the chaos of a global pandemic, this year multiple U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies have dialed in...
6/11/2020 9:43:31 PM HHS announces another round of CARES Act funding for Medicaid and CHIP providers as well as Safety Net Hospitals By Carrie Gorner On June 9, 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced additional distributions from the CARES Act Provider...
2/28/2020 1:12:32 AM CDC Offers Guidance to Health Providers on ICD-10 Coding for Coronavirus/COVID-19 Encounters By Rebecca Dittrich Scot T. Hasselman The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released official diagnosis coding guidance for health care encounters and...
2/26/2020 9:44:43 PM Potential Tensions Lie Ahead Between Federal and State Authorities Over the Application of CDC Quarantine Powers By Scot T. Hasselman Jessica Christensen Rebecca Dittrich According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), although there have been imported cases of Covid-19 detected in...
2/12/2020 10:40:46 PM Analysis: Navigating US federal and state rules during the novel coronavirus public health emergency By Scot T. Hasselman The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV, also known as “SARS-CoV-2”) has been declared a public health emergency (PHE) by the U.S. Department of...
1/16/2020 8:00:51 PM HHS Continuing to Reduce Medicare ALJ Appeals Backlog under Court Order; Senators Reintroduce Legislation Striving to Improve Efficiency of Medicare Appeals Process By Rahul Narula The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is ahead of schedule to reduce its Medicare Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) appeals...