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Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 8 (August 2020) - HHS changed its tone on care coordination and case management in the final Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records regulation (42 C.F.R. § 2), known...more
President Trump's budget was released yesterday as the fiscal year (FY) 2020 appropriations process ramps up. The FY 2020 budget requests $87.1 billion in discretionary funding for the Health and Human Services (HHS)...more
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently published a report on the federal government implementation of the Buy American Act. The Buy American Act of 1933 is one of several statutes implementing a preference for...more
Foley & Lardner LLP’s (“Foley”) Bipartisan Public Policy Team is pleased to share our “Public Policy Weekly* Health Care Newsletter” in which we compile the latest Health care policy news and legislation. *Please note that we...more
Telemedicine has the potential to disrupt the health care delivery system by providing access to care at a lower cost than face-to-face visits. Telemedicine incorporates remote communications into the provision of health care...more
We’re dizzily trying to keep track of all the ways that the new administration is defying the best hopes that it will pursue a health care policy that is fair, open, responsive, and based in evidence, research, and...more
On December 7, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG), issued a final rule that will have a widespread impact on health care service providers, medical transport providers,...more
You probably heard about the recent price hike for a drug critical to AIDS patients when the manufacturer sold it to an evil hedge fund manager who promptly marked it up 5,000%. This prompted Los Angeles Times columnist...more
In This Issue: - Permanent Medicare Doc-Fix Entering Critical Week - Implementation of the Affordable Care Act - Other Federal Regulatory Initiatives - Congressional Initiatives - Other...more