by Girish Anand | Jan 12, 2016 | ACA, Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, Obamacare, PPACA
Through October 2015, the Obamacare provision that allows states to enroll anyone earning less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level into Medicare has netted 13.5 million new enrollees, eclipsing marketplace sign-ups — both state and federal — by a...
by Girish Anand | Jan 11, 2016 | HHS, OCR
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) this past week published guidance on individuals’ right to their protected health information (PHI) under the Privacy Rule provision of the Health Insurance Portability and...
by Girish Anand | Jan 7, 2016 | OSHA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding that allows the agencies to share information regarding the anti-retaliation provision under the Wendell H. Ford...
by Girish Anand | Jan 7, 2016 | DOL, MSHA
Preliminary data released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration indicate that 28 miners died in 2015 in work-related accidents at the nation’s mines, down from 45 in 2014. The figure represents the lowest number of mining...
by Girish Anand | Jan 5, 2016 | HIPAA
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today issued a final rule to allow HIPAA-protected mental health data to be shared with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) run by the Federal Bureau of...
