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HHS Issues Important Notice Regarding Transmission of Medical Records to Third Parties Following Ciox Health Decision
On January 23, 2020, the Federal District Court of the District of Columbia issued a decision in Ciox Health, LLC v. Azar, et al., which has implications on the type of protected health information that must be transmitted to third parties and the fees that can be...
Sober Home Task Force Will Make More Arrests in Next 30 to 45 Days
Yesterday, Palm Beach State Attorney Dave Aronberg spoke to a reporter from the Sun Sentinel, announcing that his office will be making arrests in the next 30 to 45 days in the drug recovery industry. These arrests are related to investigations by the Sober Home Task...
Jackson Health System Fined $2.1 Million for Multiple Data Breaches
Jackson Health System has paid a $2.1 million fine imposed by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) for three separate HIPAA violations, the investigation into which revealed “a HIPAA compliance program that had been...
A Win For Fla. Hospitals On Patient Safety Data Confidentiality
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida last week enforced valuable protections over hospitals’ Patient Safety Work Product-privileged documents pursuant to Patient Safety Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA) – narrowly interpreting a...
CMS Proposed Rule Increases Price Transparency of Hospital Standard Charges
On July 29, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Calendar Year (CY) 2020 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System Proposed Rule.Among several notable...
DOJ Indicts Opioid Distributor, Executives, and Pharmacists
Today, the government arrested two executives- Anthony Rattini, President and James Barclay, Compliance Officer - of Ohio based drug distributor Miami-Luken, Inc. The government also arrested two pharmacist that each owned a pharmacy that was dispensing...
What House Bill 843 Means for the Future of Physician Non-Competes
*Update July 1st: House Bill (HB) 843 was signed into law on June 25, 2019. Section 542.336, Florida Statutes, which relates to the restrictive covenants discussed below became effective immediately upon becoming law. The full version of the bill can be...
Filming in Hospitals: Recent Settlements for HIPAA Violations
In the age of smartphones, hospitals have many privacy concerns when patients, their protected health information, and healthcare providers, are subject to being filmed by visitors on an increasing basis. State privacy laws can be violated, let alone the...
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