Kaitlin Lavin Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 Last May, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule for Medicaid managed care, which told states to stop making pass-through payments to healthcare providers. Pass-through payments have played a critical role in funding safety net hospitals which …
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Brittany Tomkies Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 Over the past decade, risk management and compliance professionals have moved away from asking “what happened” and “who did it” to asking “why” the error occurred in hopes of developing effective safeguards to prevent reoccurrence of those errors. As a result of …
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ADAM C. SOLANDER is a Member of Epstein Becker Green’s Health Care and Life Sciences practice, in the firm’s D.C. office. Mr. Solander advises clients on data breach/cybersecurity issues across industry lines, including compliance with HITECH, HIPAA, PCI, JCAHO, CMS, ISO, NIST, and various other federal, state, and business requirements.
The following is an interview with him discussing the unique cybersecurity challenges facing the healthcare sector, and how the industry can move past HIPAA compliance to a more robust definition of privacy and security.
Fannie Fang Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 On January 18, 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a final rule to update and improve the Confidentiality of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Patient Records regulations, known as 42 CFR Part 2 (“Part 2”). The purpose of the …
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Ryan Whitney Managing Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017 With the chaotic 2016 behind us and 2017 underway, many people are working to maintain the resolution(s) they set for themselves to ensure that last year’s failures are not repeated. Sadly, more than a quarter of us have already broken these resolutions …
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Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law As has been the case for every new Administration since 1981, the President has issued a freeze of final regulations that have not gone into effect. The instruction usually comes through the Chief of Staff and is referred to …
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Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law In continuing to examine the regulatory Wunderkammer of the Federal Register, the first volume of the year holds some interesting items in its opening pages. Page 1 of the 81st volume starts out somberly with Executive Order 13757, “Taking …
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Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law Early before dawn on the last day of the 2016 Federal Register, 19 pistachio handlers in the United States were greeted with an easier compliance burden for 2017. But we’ll return to that later. Why January 1 starts the new year is a bit …
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Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law As we approach the end of another calendar year, let’s see how the Federal Register page count is going. We have occasionally checked in on the status of the horse race of pages compared to previous years. Here is …
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Anais Holland-Rudd Associate Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2018 Niurka Fernandez, 54, and her son Roberto Alvarez, 26, both plead guilty on August 31, 2016 to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. On November 10th, Fernandez was sentenced to 120 months in prison while Alvarez was sentenced to …
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