March 2, 2020
Covered entities are no longer required to limit the fees they charge when sending records to a third party, according to a recent decision by the U.S. District Court for the District [...]
January 28, 2020
Yesterday, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) published a new informative Program Assistance Letter (PAL) regarding telehealth and its intersection with the Health Center Program scope of project. In the PAL, HRSA [...]
January 22, 2020
Today, the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) issued proposed revisions to the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (“Uniform Guidance”), codified at 2 C.F.R. Part 200 / [...]
January 9, 2020
CLIENT ALERT: CMS Issues Info Bulletin for State Medicaid Agencies to Avoid 340B Duplicate Discounts
On January 8, 2020, CMS’ Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) issued an Informational Bulletin (“Bulletin”) sharing best practices with state Medicaid agencies for the prevention of 340B program Medicaid duplicate [...]
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 [...]
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 ineligibility, [...]
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 [...]
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 10, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]