New HIPAA rules regarding genetic information affect employers, group health plans, health insurers and healthcare providers *

USA - February 25 2013
While the final rule supplementing and modifying the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy, Security, Breach Reporting…

Co-authors: Lisa W. Clark.

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Overview of 2013 amendments to HIPAA privacy, security, breach notification and enforcement rules *

USA - January 29 2013
On January 17, 2013, the federal Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS"), Office for Civil Rights ("OCR"), issued the long-anticipated…

Co-authors: Neville M. Bilimoria, Lisa W. Clark, David E. Loder, Emmy S. Monahan, Erin M. Duffy.

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Deadline looming (March 23, 2013) for nursing facilities to have in operation an effective compliance and ethics program *

USA - January 28 2013
On March 23, 2013, it will have been three years since President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. This…

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More more aggressive fraud enforcement coming to a Medicaid program near you *

USA - November 29 2012
“[T]he Affordable Care Act may help encourage States to be more aggressive in rooting out fraud and overpayments.”  

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The government's healthcare fraud recovery formula: intimidate providers into settling, use settlement as "precedent", repeat *

USA - July 27 2012
In a February 14, 2012, press release, the Attorney General and the HHS Secretary announced that “the government’s health care prevention and enforcement efforts recovered nearly $4.1 billion in taxpayer dollars in Fiscal Year (FY) 2011.”

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