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Medicare Regulations Compliance for Long-term Care Hospitals-within-Hospitals
Christine S. Kim Assistant Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, J.D. 2017 Due to the inextricably association between long-term care Hospitals-within-Hospitals (“HwHs”) and their respective Long Term Care Hospitals (“LTCH”), or host hospitals, efforts to circumvent compliance with federal reimbursement regulations have evolved. This blog article discusses the ways in which the Centers …
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Impaired and On the Clock: Developing Policies and Procedures to Cope with Impairment in the Workplace
Brittany Tomkies Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 Drug and substance abuse has become an epidemic in the United States over the past 15 years, reaching an alarming 9.4% of Americans ages 12 and older in 2013. The human and economic costs of substance abuse are astonishing – some estimate …
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FTC Final Order against LabMD – The Intersection of Unfair Practices, Privacy, Security, and Compliance
Logan Parker Privacy Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, LL.M. in Health Law 2017 The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued an Opinion and Final Order on July 29, 2016 against LabMD, a now defunct medical testing laboratory, for its lax data security practices that constituted an unfair practice under Section 5 of the …
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OCR To Devote Greater Resources To HIPAA Breaches Affecting Fewer Than 500 Individuals
Christine Bulgozdi Associate Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2018 The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) announced in August that they would be focusing more efforts on investigating breaches of Protected Health Information (PHI) affecting fewer than 500 individuals. Currently, regional offices investigate all breaches affecting more than 500 individuals, but only …
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MACRA 101: A Series on MACRA
Alanna J. Kroeker Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) was signed into law by President Obama back in April 2015 and one year later, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the highly anticipated proposed rule. This 962-page rule is …
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New Overtime Rules Have Employers Working Overtime
Ryan Whitney Managing Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 Beginning in December of this year, the Department of Labor will implement their final update to the rules governing overtime pay. The new income threshold will nearly double, thus encompassing 4 million workers nationwide. This update will have a large impact on …
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Brexit & Privacy Compliance
Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law Now that the UK referendum has expressed the voters’ preference to leave the European Union, there are some fascinating questions regarding how compliance programs deal with the unwinding. There is still considerable time to wrestle with these matters since both major …
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On this Day: the Federal Register (June)
Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law Since we have arrived at the end of another month, let’s see how the Federal Register page count is going. Please see previous month-end wrap-ups if you would like to learn where the horse race was at those points. …
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On this Day: the Federal Register (May)
Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law Now that it is the end of May, let’s check in on how the Federal Register page count is faring so far this year against recent years. Here is today’s ending page number compared to the last few years …
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On this Day: the Federal Register (April)
Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law The number of annually published pages of the Federal Register doesn’t tell us much about the growth of regulations in the United States. After all, even repeals of regulations take up page counts. But the size of the Federal …
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