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The Catholic League has blasted Joe Biden’s nomination of Xavier Becerra as Secretary of HHS, calling him “a menace to life and liberty.”

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued final rules modifying and expanding upon the regulatory safe harbors and exceptions to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute

Biden will allocate $650 million for testing and $815 million for supplies from HHS and the DOD, and nearly $200 million on CDC genome sequencing.

Get Permission Many of the major health data breaches added to the federal tally so far this year involve business associates, continuing a trend in recent years. The largest breach added so far in 2021 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool website – which lists health data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals – is a vendor hacking incident reported on Jan. 29 by Florida Healthy Kids Corp., a provider of childrens health and dental health pla...

The Complaint HHS OCR says that in June 2019, it received a complaint alleging that Sharp failed to take timely action in response to a patients records access request directing that an electronic copy of protected health information in an electronic health record be sent to a third party. OCR says it provided Sharp with technical assistance on the HIPAA right of access requirements. But in August 2019, OCR received a second complaint alleging that Sharp still had not responded to the patients...

HHS has issued its 15th HIPAA settlement involving a patient's right to access their medical records. Will enforcement of HIPAA's records access provision be a

Alex Wong/Getty Images WPP ad agencies are leading the Health and Human Services vaccine education campaign. HHS says the next stage will be a $115 million-plus effort to encourage people to get the vaccine. The campaign is focusing on minority communities, where vaccination rates are lower. Advertising giant WPP has been leading a $250 million US Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus messaging campaign. The biggest part of the campaign, a $115 millio...

Tuesday, February 9, 2021 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) in partnership with three domain name registries disabled nearly 30 websites illegally offering opioids for sale. Working together as part of a pilot program jointly created by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Commerce (Commerce), FDA and NTIA aim to reduce the availability of unapproved and misbranded opioids ill...

Advertisement HHS Finalizes Highly Anticipated Final Rule Amending Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law Regulations, Part VI: Changes to Fundamental Stark Law Terminology Monday, February 8, 2021 In this final post of our blog series on the substantial changes to the regulations implementing the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the Physician Self-Referral Law (commonly known as the Stark Law), we cover change to (i) key Stark Law terminology, and (ii) the scope and application of the ...