How to Benefit From Healthcare Workflow Automation
Just two years ago, only 4% of businesses reached a level of maturity within their day-to-day digital operations to optimize workflows through automation. Today, workflow automation has [...]
FTC Lawsuit Against Pharmacy Benefit Managers Alleges Unfair Competition
In September 2024, the FTC sued three pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx, for artificially inflating the cost of insulin drugs. The FTC alleges [...]
Understanding How the OIG LEIE Affects Your Business
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) maintains the List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE) as a useful tool that helps safeguard federal healthcare programs from both [...]
Change Healthcare Class Action Lawsuit to Proceed in Federal Court
In February of 2024, Change Healthcare (Change), a healthcare payment processing company, sustained a data breach. This data breach was no ordinary data breach (to the extent [...]
The OCR HIPAA Audit Program and the HIPAA Security Rule
The HITECH Act requires the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to conduct periodic audits of HIPAA covered entity and business [...]
2024 OIG General Compliance Program Guidance
The U.S. Office of Inspector General (OIG) enforces the General Compliance Program Guidance. This comprehensive document governs patient care, worker safety, and privacy and confidentiality of protected [...]
9.67 Million Affected by August 2024 Healthcare Breaches
August 2024 was a record month for healthcare breaches. Healthcare providers reported the most breaches, but one business associate reported a massive breach, tipping the scales to [...]
Texas Lawsuit Seeks Invalidation of HIPAA Reproductive Healthcare Privacy Rule
On April 22, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Final Rule, entitled “HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support [...]
Final Rule Strengthens Access to Mental Health and Substance Use Care
A mental health “parity law” is one requiring health plans to provide comparable coverage for mental health as it does for physical ailments. The nation’s first mental health [...]
HHS Withdraws Appeal of Online Tracking Technology Court Order
In December of 2022, HHS issued online tracking technology guidance. The guidance provided instructions for HIPAA-covered entities on how to use tracking technologies to gather information about [...]
