by admin | Nov 13, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, Obamacare, PPACA
What are referred to as “minimum value” or “skinny” health plans have been ordered to include physician services and hospitalization by way of a new regulation, but the issuing federal agencies have now given a reprieve to certain plans already...
by admin | Nov 12, 2014 | HHS, OCR
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) have issued a bulletin in “light of the Ebola outbreak and other events” to clarify “the ways in which patient information may be shared under the HIPAA Privacy...
by admin | Nov 11, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, HHS
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) expects health care sign-ups in the state and federal exchanges during the open enrollment period starting Nov. 15 to total about 13 million people, but Health and Human Services (HHS) officials said Monday they expect only 9 to...
by admin | Nov 7, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Health Care Reform, HHS, IRS, Obamacare, PPACA
When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was written, it set a “minimum value” standard on all health plans by saying a health policy must cover 60 percent of the cost of the “benefits provided by the plan,” but the text failed to specify which...
by admin | Oct 23, 2014 | HHS
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell today announced an initiative that will fund successful applicants who work directly with medical providers to rethink and redesign their practices, moving from systems driven by quantity of care to ones focused on...
by admin | Oct 17, 2014 | HHS
The development of a vaccine to prevent Ebola virus disease will be accelerated with support from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR). Under a one-year contract with Profectus BioSciences...
