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HHS Drops Appeal of Tracking Technology Case

Last year, the American Hospital Association (AHA) sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Texas, requesting that HHS be barred from enforcing a new...more

Hogan Lovells

Federal court strikes blow to expansive OCR web tracking position

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The ability of OCR to enforce expansive portions of its controversial web tracking guidance has been severely limited. A federal district court ruled that the guidance exceeded the agency’s authority, and in particular...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Notes from the Barclays 24th Annual Not-for-Profit Health Care Investors Conference 

This week in New York, many leading health systems came together for the long-running Not-For-Profit Health Care Investors Conference, now sponsored by Barclays, HFMA and the American Hospital Association. The conference...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: May 2024

Kaiser Permanente is notifying 13.4 million current and former members that their personal information may have been compromised when it was transmitted to tech giants Google, Microsoft Bing and X (formerly Twitter) when...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Cyber Resilience After the Change Healthcare Breach

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More than two months after the February 2024 Change Healthcare cyber-ransom attack, the healthcare industry continues to grapple with the fallout, creating significant challenges, disruptions, and outages to the healthcare...more

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HHS Updates Its Guidance on Online Tracking Technologies – Controversy Remains

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently updated its controversial, year-old guidance document on the use of online tracking technologies by healthcare providers and other...more

Nelson Hardiman, LLP

Hacking and Healing: Nation-States, Cyber Attacks, and Healthcare Law

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Modern warfare is no longer restricted to physical battlefields and professional military. Countries like North Korea and Russia have few qualms about using cyberspace to reach well beyond their physical borders to target...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - March 2024 #4

News Briefs - Lawmaker Introduces Health Care Cybersecurity Improvement Act - Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has introduced the Health Care Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2024, which would allow for advance and accelerated...more

BakerHostetler

Lipstick on a Pig: OCR’s Cosmetic Revisions to Guidance on Tracking Technology in Healthcare Fail to Address Fundamental Issues

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When the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (HHS OCR) issued its guidance on “Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates” on Dec. 1, 2022 Original...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: November 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 11 (November, 2023) The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging federal lawmakers to intervene with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) so that hospitals and health systems can...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Lawsuit Seeks to Block OCR HIPAA Guidance on Online Tracking Tools

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Hospitals care about patient privacy, but they also have to connect with the public. In the real world, people mostly connect online. Having a fully functional online presence often requires help from third parties. ...more

Alston & Bird

Health Care Week in Review: CMS Releases Updates on Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center (CMMI) Initiatives to...

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

Cornerstone Research

5 Questions with Erin Trish: Surprise Billing in Healthcare

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5 Questions is a periodic feature produced by Cornerstone Research, which asks our professionals, senior advisors, or affiliated experts to answer five questions. We interview Professor Erin Trish, of the Schaeffer Center...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Healthcare Authority Newsletter - May 2023 #4

News Briefs - WHO Warns Rapid Adoption of AI in Healthcare Could Be Dangerous - The World Health Organization is warning that the "meteoric" rise of artificial intelligence tools in healthcare threatens the safety of patients...more

Baker Donelson

340B Hospitals Score a Win With The U.S. Supreme Court

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On Wednesday, June 15, 2022, in a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in favor of the American Hospital Association in the case of American Hospital Association vs. Becerra, that the nearly 30 percent cuts in...more

Polsinelli

SCOTUS Sides with 340B Hospitals and Denies CMS’s Attempt to Cut Reimbursement for 340B Drugs

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Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court handed down a highly anticipated, unanimous opinion, AHA v. Becerra, confirming that CMS exceeded its statutory authority when it implemented a discriminatory reimbursement structure...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

Supreme Court Decides in Favor of 340B Hospitals Regarding Medicare Reimbursement Methodology

On June 15, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of “340B” hospitals in a notable statutory interpretation case concerning how the federal Medicare program reimburses hospitals for prescription drugs. The...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Health Care Organizations Warned of Aggressive Ransomware Threat

Ransomware is the “business pandemic.” Warnings have been issued by multiple agencies around the world to alert businesses to increase their protection and awareness. Most recently, the Department of Health and Human...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Pending Supreme Court Decision in AHA v. Becerra May Be Felt Well Beyond the Healthcare Industry

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By July 2022, the US Supreme Court is expected to release its opinion in American Hospital Association v. Becerra, a case that not only has significant ramifications for healthcare providers but may also impacts the deference...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CMS Backs Off Price Transparency for Providers and Plans

On August 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system (“IPPS”) final rule (“Final Rule”) for fiscal year 2022. In addition to a number of other...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Healthcare News: Biden Administration Aims to Strengthen Competition Through Issuance of Sweeping Executive Order

President Biden issued Executive Order 14036 on July 9, 2021, calling for a “whole-of-government approach” to promote competition across many industries, including healthcare. The order establishes a White House Competition...more

McDermott Will & Emery

OSHA Maintains COVID-19 Safety Pressure on Healthcare Employers Despite Challenges from All Sides

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fielded complaints from both labor unions and management-side associations regarding its COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), highlighting stakeholders’...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Site-Neutral Payments Stand: SCOTUS Declines to Hear AHA Appeal, Preserving Lower Payments to Off-Campus Provider-Based...

In July 2020, we discussed a ruling by the D.C. Court of Appeals upholding the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) site-neutral payment rules. On Monday, June 28, 2021, the Supreme Court declined, without comment,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Congressional Action in the Face of Mounting Concerns Regarding Current and Future Physician Shortages

In its June 2021 physician supply and demand report, “The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand: Projections From 2019 to 2034” (the “Report”), the Association of American Medical Colleges (“AAMC”) highlights the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CMS Proposes Repeal of Certain Cost Reporting Requirements from the IPPS Final Rule for 2021

On April 27, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (“IPPS”) and Long-Term Care Hospital (“LTCH”) unpublished Proposed Rule for 2022 (“Proposed...more

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