December 9, 2019
National Institutes of Health (NIH) joins rank with its peers via its Data Management and Sharing Policy. This proposed policy will apply to all research that is funded or conducted in whole [...]
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October 11, 2019
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released the results of a study to identify problems with Head Start program eligibility screening. What did they find? Out of 15 programs, seven correctly determined [...]
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September 16, 2019
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (“SAMHSA”) recently issued two Proposed Rules which, if finalized, would bring additional changes to 42 CFR Part 2 (“Part 2”), the federal regulations which require [...]
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July 24, 2019
The National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) recently issued guidance related to the disclosure of “other support,” “foreign components,” and “financial conflicts of interest” for NIH grantees. The new guidance, issued on July [...]
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June 26, 2019
UPDATE (July 15, 2019): Recent rulings by the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth and Ninth Circuits, as well as the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, currently give the [...]
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April 29, 2019
On March 4, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule revising its Title X family planning regulations, which have an effective date of May 3, 2019. [...]
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March 4, 2019
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a final rule, Compliance With Statutory Program Integrity Requirements, dramatically revising the Title X family planning program regulations. The proposed rule (published [...]
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January 18, 2019
On January 15, 2019, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) published the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) Health Center Site Visit Protocol. You can find the protocol on HRSA’s website here. [...]
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November 15, 2018
On November 1, 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Calendar Year 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule (CY2019 PFS Final Rule). The regulation sets forth how physicians and [...]
May 2, 2016
On April 26, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released new guidance (State Health Official Letter #16-006) regarding the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”) payment requirements for federally-qualified [...]
