March 27, 2021 Maggie Van Dyke
It’s budget season in most states, meaning safety-net hospitals are anxiously waiting to hear whether their Medicaid payments will be cut.
Month: March 2021
OCR Settles Seventeenth Investigation in HIPAA Right of Access Initiative
March 24, 2021
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announces its seventeenth settlement of an enforcement action in its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative. OCR announced this initiative to support individuals’ right to timely access to their health records at a reasonable cost under the HIPAA Privacy Rule.
MedPAC cautious on permanent telehealth expansion
March 15, 2021 MICHAEL BRADY
Despite enthusiasm for telehealth among consumers, politicians and many in the healthcare industry, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission doesn’t want fee-for-service Medicare to go all-in on telehealth until federal policymakers have more evidence about how it affects the program, according to a MedPAC report on Monday.
Healthcare industry gearing up to try to find common ground with Biden
March 06, 2021 Lola Butcher
The Biden administration is starting out in lockstep with every sector of the healthcare industry: All agree that the top priority must be addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, and every other issue is a distant second.