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Managed Care April 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein	President's Privacy-Rule Review Creates Controversy, Confusion The final medical privacy regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) stand out in terms of controversy and confusion. The end game is still cast in doubt...
Nursing Management April 2010 Lisa A. Gallagher	Revisiting HIPAA The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 Privacy and Security Rules have been in effect since 2002-03.
Managed Care May 2002 David Humiston & Stephen M. Crane	Will Your State's Privacy Law Be Superseded by HIPAA? Careful interpretation required: Health plans operating in multiple states have a challenge sorting out where the federal law trumps state statutes
Managed Care June 2002 T. Emmet Thornton	HIPAA Affects Docs' Response To Subpoenas for Medical Data The Health Insurance Portability and Privacy Act of 1996 will supersede state law on medical-record subpoenas in several respects.
Managed Care April 2002	HHS Applies 'Common Sense' To Privacy Regs In what is being hailed -- or scorned, depending upon the source -- as a major victory for the health care industry, the Bush administration has issued proposed revisions to privacy regulations...
OCC Bulletin September 8, 2000	Privacy Laws and Regulations This document is designed to assist national banks and their subsidiaries in complying with federal laws and regulations relating to the disclosure of consumer financial information...
Managed Care January 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein	Clinton's Regulations May Be Model For Patient-Rights Legislative Push That handiwork might just provide a preview of the type of patient-rights legislation a sharply divided Congress might produce...
Managed Care April 2000 Mark D. Abruzzo, J.D.	Despite What You Hear, State Privacy Statutes No Threat to DM In Managed Care's November 1999 issue, Al Lewis, president of the Disease Management Association of America, wrote about potential pitfalls facing DM. One identified by Lewis was state privacy laws, a topic that merits further attention....
Salon.com December 21, 2000 Dawn MacKeen	The medical privacy debate Do Clinton's new guidelines go far enough?
Managed Care February 2002 Michael Levin-Epstein	Plans, Providers Should Use HIPAA Breathing Room Wisely HMOs may delay compliance with HIPAA electronic transactions and code reporting requirements for one year under legislation passed by Congress late last year. However, the new law doesn't affect information privacy requirements slated to take effect in 2003...
Managed Care September 2002	New Privacy Regulations Almost Certain To Be Tested The Bush administration is moving to loosen health-privacy protections by requiring that providers tell patients about their privacy rights and make only a "good-faith effort" to get a written acknowledgement of that notice.
Inc. November 2003 Alison Stein Wellner	The Privacy Time Bomb If you provide health insurance, you're sitting on a potential privacy time bomb. Here's how to defuse it.
Managed Care December 2002 Joyce Ochs	Providers, Plans Misinformed About Vendor Software Capability Software vendors are not affected by HIPAA, although their customers are. Jeffrey Fusile, the partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers who heads the HIPAA Advisory Services, claims that "vendors and clearinghouses have misled people to a fault."
InternetNews April 21, 2005 Tim Gray	HIPAA Deadline Passes Health care organizations still working to comply with privacy and security technology provisions of HIPAA.
Managed Care November 2001 Darren T. Binder	Determining Who Is Covered By HIPAA Privacy Regulation Because there are significant penalties associated with noncompliance with the new HIPAA, business leaders must determine whether their operations put them at risk of violating the regulations...
Managed Care November 2002 Fox et al.	HIPAA Modifications Ease Burdens, But Don't Take Anything for Granted Although the final privacy rule in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eases some burdens for managed care organizations and providers, it still significantly restricts the use and disclosure of protected health information.
Managed Care July 2001 John Otrompke	Stark Allows Federal Regulators To Review Claims Records Fully HMO executives, as well as the providers and physicians who contract with them, should have by now felt the changes in their daily work lives resulting from the government's increased scrutiny of health plans' operations under the fraud-and-abuse compliance laws...
Entrepreneur March 2003 Mark Henricks	Private Business The word from HIPAA is to keep it zipped when it comes to employee health issues.
Managed Care December 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	Outpatient PPS Regulations Latest Source of Anti-HCFA Anger The Health Care Financing Administration continues to be one of the most besieged agencies in the federal government. Now, providers are attacking the agency's rules for the prospective payment system (PPS) for hospital outpatient services...
Managed Care February 2001 Michael Levin-Epstein	Mainstream Media Misinterpret HCFA's Policy on Medical Errors Is the Health Care Financing Administration changing its policy on disclosure of medical errors to Medicare beneficiaries? The issue is causing a tremendous amount of confusion among physicians and health plans. To HCFA, however, the fuss is much ado about nothing...
IndustryWeek April 1, 2003 Tonya Vinas	Ready Or Not, Here Comes HIPAA New federal health-information regulations have companies scrambling to comply.
Managed Care September 2000	Countdown Begins for Compliance With HIPAA Electronic Standards If you thought a lot of time and money was spent on Y2K readiness, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Complying with the new rules for electronic transaction standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is expected to exceed Y2K in terms of dollars and work hours...
CIO March 15, 2004 Alison Bass	Health-Care I.T As more health-care providers move toward electronic medical records that they can easily share via the Internet, the potential for abuse grows.
Managed Care January 2002	1-Year Delay Near In Implementation Of HIPAA Rules It looks like most players in health care -- IT vendors excluded -- will get what they want if a bill delaying the deadline for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's electronic claims standards becomes law...
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2005 Steven Tarnoff	How to Keep Out of Regulatory Quicksand Pharma sales teams may soon need law degrees just to keep up with the changes in federal and state mandates.
CIO November 1, 2002 Ben Worthen	How to Meet Tomorrow's Privacy Rules Today When it comes to preparing for impending security regulations, health-care CIOs have some simple advice: Act now.
U.S. Banker March 2007 Paresh Amin	Balancing Industry Mandates and Federal Regulations Financial companies need to consider compliance, business objectives and data security in a holistic manner. All three can be boiled down to one main requirement: determining what is happening to critical data.
Managed Care April 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	Congressional Anti-Kickback Battle Hinges on HCFA's Regulatory Stance In an election year, the political hot buttons -- the Patients Bill of Rights and a Medicare prescription benefit, and maybe the issue of medical errors -- are sure to get a lot more attention than such mundane things as laws that would address potential kickbacks....
PC World March 15, 2001 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: Medical Records Privacy Law Threatened A handful of insurance and medical industry companies want to sell your personal data. A look at the current state of the law in the U.S.
Managed Care December 2002 Fox et al.	Modified HIPAA Privacy Rule Affects Research, Marketing, Security A modified rule allows the use and disclosure of "limited data sets" of personal health information for research, health care operations, or public health activities. These sets do not include direct identifiers, such as name, address, or Social Security number.
AFP eWire August 13, 2007	New Survey Finds Lack of Outreach to "Grateful" Patients Almost 40% of fundraisers in health institutions do not consider outreach to past or "grateful" patients to be an important component of their work, and 20% make no effort to contact them at all, according to a new survey.
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2012 Feam & Lagus	Providing Access Now While regulatory frameworks and medical practices differ between countries, many patients still need early access to new drugs. Industry can help.
Managed Care December 2001 John Carroll	The Coming HIPAA Crisis HIPAA's timetable has been known for years, but many organizations that the law covers are dawdling pitifully in preparing for compliance...
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2012	Compliance: Getting Those Ducks in a Row Pharma must coordinate the efforts of medical, legal, HR, global partners and many other players in the regulatory compliance space to keep itself afloat in choppy seas.
Global Services November 29, 2007	The Future of Regulation Whether offshore or onshore, the confluence of increased regulations and increased outsourcing will result in increasingly intense scrutiny by regulators of outsourcing relationships.
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2009 William M. Aukamp	Some Thoughts on Regulatory Reform Before creating a new agency, Congress should be mindful of the already-heavy compliance burden born by banks.
InternetNews December 22, 2006 Ray Everett-Church	Privacy Rules: Business vs. Consumers American businesses lobbying for lax security regulations should look at Europe's example to see the economic value of tighter rules.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2006 Musacchio & Hunkler	More Than a Game of Keep Away The Prescribing Data Restriction Program takes effect in July. The AMA explains how individual doctors can keep their prescribing habits safe from reps, and how pharma can keep using the anonymous data -- if the industry polices itself.
InternetNews June 3, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Privacy a Stumbling Block in Healthcare IT Government's push for universal electronic health records brings tech firms into thorny privacy debate.
Managed Care October 2000 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Steven B. Epstein, J.D. This pioneering medical legal authority says health plans and physicians should stop fighting over scraps the government throws them...
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2013 Al Topin	The Doctor-Patient Disconnect Doctor-patient conversations aren't always what we think; this basic interaction represents both a problem and an opportunity for today's drug marketers, says the author.
InternetNews June 14, 2010	Lax Data Security Results in Heavy Fines Five California hospitals got an expensive reminder of just how serious the state is about protecting patients' sensitive data. Expect more of the same in the near future.
CRM May 25, 2011 Leonard Klie	New EU Regs to Affect Email and Online Marketing Regulations take affect today that require opt-in consent for email marketing and tracking the online activity of Web site visitors.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2012 Al Topin	Doctors' Words No Longer Gospel In the digital age, physicians don't call the shots when it comes to healthcare guidance. Marketers must appeal to multiple sources in seeking ways to garner patient adherence and loyalty.
CRM August 2011 Leonard Klie	New EU Regulations to Affect Email, Online Marketing Opt-in consent required for emails and for tracking the online activity of Web site visitors
AFP eWire May 13, 2004	FEC Decides Not to Act on Expanding Rules to Nonprofits The Federal Election Commission (FEC) decided today not to impose new regulations that would strictly limit 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations in their ability to lobby and communicate with the government, donors and the public.
InternetNews August 25, 2010	Security, EMRs Top Healthcare IT Priorities With new government regulations placing even more responsibility and scrutiny on the healthcare industry, IT administrators are struggling to deliver both efficiency and security.
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2010 William M. Aukamp	Should Your Bank Have a Lawyer on Staff? Understanding the roles of the counsel and the compliance officer can ensure your bank has all bases covered.
Managed Care September 2002 John Carroll	Profusion of Health Care Laws Creates Compliance Problems for Health Plans The standoff has led to an epic legal struggle between business interests hungering for a uniform federal standard and local interests that are fiercely protective of states' longstanding right to dictate insurance law. From the perspective of managed care, things are rapidly worsening.
Commercial Investment Real Estate Sep/Oct 2009 Andrew Dick	Deal Diagnosis Healthcare real estate transactions not only are driven by economic factors, but also by compliance with federal and state healthcare laws.