Policy & Regulations

This channel includes news coverage of healthcare policy and regulations set by Congress, the states, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and medical associations and societies. 

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Legislation calls for new Office of Wireless Health

The Healthcare Innovation and Marketplace Technologies Act, reintroduced by Rep. Mike Honda (D-Calif.) on June 13, calls for the establishment of an Office of Wireless Health in the FDA. The bill was first introduced last December but did not progress beyond the committee level.

PwC: Healthcare spending projected to dip

Healthcare inflation in the U.S. is projected to dip to 6.5 percent in 2014, according to PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) in its annual report, Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers. The ongoing slowdown in the healthcare growth rate defies historical post-recession patterns and is likely to be sustained even as the Affordable Care Act adds millions more newly-insured Americans to the health system in 2014.

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Shasta Regional slapped with $275K HIPAA fine

Shasta Regional Medical Center (SRMC) agreed to pay $275,000 and undertake a corrective action plan after a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigation uncovered HIPAA violations stemming from unauthorized disclosure of a patient’s personal health information.  

Berwick sets sights on Mass. governorship

Former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, has set his sights of the position of governor of Massachusetts.

CMS seeks test EHRs

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is seeking several test EHRs for the agency to use in the Meaningful Use (MU) attestation process.

MGMA study finds ICD-10 preparedness lagging

A recently released survey by the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) adds to a chorus of studies finding that the healthcare industry is widely unprepared for the ICD-10 conversion, which becomes mandatory on Oct. 1, 2014.

CMS issues proposed rule for health insurance marketplace guidelines

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a proposed rule outlining program integrity guidelines for the Health Insurance Marketplace (Marketplace) and premium stabilization programs.

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Weekly roundup: Vendors step up

Health IT vendors stepped up to the plate this week with interesting contributions.

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Medsender, Patagonia Health team up to aid public health efforts against COVID-19

A vendor that supplies EHR software to public health agencies is partnering with a health-tech startup in the cloud-communications space to equip state and local governments for managing their response to the COVID-19 crisis.