by admin | Oct 9, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, CMS, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
A day after insurers got to navigate through the site, the administration unveiled its revamped HealthCare.Gov insurance portal on Wednesday with versions in both English and Spanish, but with “get ready” misspelled three times in Spanish as preparase...
by admin | Sep 26, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathew Burwell told the Los Angeles Times this week that her agency is reconsidering its 13-million policyholder goal for enrollment in the second year of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In the first year, after...
by admin | Sep 22, 2014 | HHS, HIPAA
The compliance deadline for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Omnibus Final Rule, issued in January 2013, has arrived. By tomorrow (Sept. 23, 2014), both covered entities and business associates need to be in full compliance with the...
by admin | Sep 12, 2014 | HHS, HIPAA, OCR
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) was set to begin HIPAA audits of covered entities and business associates next month, but the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is still constructing a Web portal to help in the process, thus delaying the start, according...
by admin | Sep 9, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says its audit of a demonstration program for Medicaid expansion in Arkansas shows that the program is not cost-neutral, which violates standards for allowing Medicaid experimentation. The Department of Health and Human...
by admin | Sep 5, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, HHS
Hackers evidently broke into a server for the Obamacare HealthCare.Gov site in July, planting a malicious piece of software and hoping to launch a Dynamic Denial of Service (DDS) attack. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) say no personal...
