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A Department of Justice legal opinion, issued at the request of the Department of Health and Human Services, stated that only covered entities and those people rendered accountable by general principles of corporate criminal liability may be prosecuted under criminal enforcement provisions of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification section.
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The American Hospital Association says it is “troubled” by a Department of Health and Human Services plan to publicize the identity of those covered entities given civil monetary penalties under enforcement of HIPAA’s administrative simplification section.
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The HIPAA transaction standards have not resulted in the uniformity and efficiency envisioned when HIPAA was adopted. That’s the opinion of the HIPAA Implementation Working Group, which were presented in testimony to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics.
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A “bankruptcy bill” signed into law in April will make it harder for consumers to shield their assets and avoid paying off medical bills and other debt, according to some industry observers.
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A recent decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court involving the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) offers several take-home points for access managers and others charged with overseeing emergency department operations, says Stephen A. Frew, JD, a risk management attorney and web site publisher.
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As a major cause of traumatic death and disability, head injuries require timely diagnosis and management. Because survivors of serious head injuries often have varying degrees of permanent disability, head injury litigation is not uncommon. Furthermore, epidural hematomas may present subtly and progress rapidly toward serious brain injury and death.
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According to some sources, there only may be about a dozen of them in operation in the United States, but ED managers had better familiarize themselves with the term freestanding ED. The trend appears to be growing steadily. Within just the past few weeks:
