Posted by Jason Greis on December 7, 2009 under Presentations | 
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Please click here for a copy of my PowerPoint presentation entitled, The Art of the Deal: The Re-Emergence of Post-Acute M&A Activity, which was presented at the ALTHA Advocacy Meeting in Austin, Texas on December 4, 2009. Read More...
Posted by Jason Greis on December 6, 2009 under Articles | Be the First to Comment
Covered entities (i.e. LTACHs and other healthcare providers), and the business associates that assist them with the performance of functions and activities that involve access to protected health information (“PHI”), are now subject to much greater regulation of their information security practices as a result of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (“HITECH Act”). The HITECH Act was included as Title XIII of the Federal economic stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“ARRA”), and represents the most expansive modification to the Federal privacy and security rules for health-related businesses since the 1996 enactment of HIPAA. Read More...
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The Senate, continues to work on the health care bill, voting on several amendments this past week. Thursday, the Senate voted 61 to 39 on an amendment from Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) to that would eliminate co-payments for mammograms and other preventive services for women, requiring instead that insurers provide full coverage. This amendment was largely a reaction to recent recommendations from a federal advisory panel that said routine mammograms should begin at age 50, rather than 40. Read More...
Posted by Jason Greis on December 5, 2009 under Articles | Be the First to Comment
In October 2009, a Federal judge in Arkansas sentenced the medical director of an Arkansas hospital-within-hospital LTACH and an account representative and emergency unit coordinator of the host hospital to fines and probation for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) by unlawfully viewing a high profile patient’s electronic medical records. (U.S. v. Holland, E.D. Ark., No. 09-cr-168, sentencing Oct. 26, 2009; U.S. v. Griffin, E.D. Ark., No. 09-cr-169, sentencing Oct. 26, 09; U.S. v. Miller, E.D. Ark., No. 09-cr-170, sentencing Oct. 26, 2009). Read More...
Posted by Jason Greis on August 3, 2009 under Events | Be the First to Comment
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