by Girish Anand | Jul 8, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, HHS
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell has announced $83.4 million in Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding to support primary care residency programs in 60 Teaching Health Centers across the nation. The funding will help train more than 550...
by Girish Anand | Jul 7, 2014 | HHS
In an effort to help clinical practices use health information technology (health IT) like electronic health records (EHRs) to reduce high blood pressure, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today launched a new challenge asking health care professionals...
by Girish Anand | Jul 3, 2014 | ADA, EEOC
Drugstore giant Walgreens has agreed to pay $180,000 to a longtime employee with diabetes and to implement revised policies and training to settle a federal disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency...
by Girish Anand | Jul 3, 2014 | Personnel Concepts
From its humble beginnings 25 years ago today in the founder's residence, Personnel Concepts has grown to be the dominant force in the labor law poster compliance industry. Through its first quarter-century, miore than 1.5 million American businesses have relied...
by Girish Anand | Jul 1, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, HHS
Though he never used the "F" word — fraud –the Health and Human Services Department Inspector General fessed up to finding 2.9 million inconsistencies on federal marketplace insurance applications, most of them involving citizenship and...