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Jan 15, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | James Cannatti III |Daniel Gottlieb |Kristen O'Brien
On December 17, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Protecting Care Access (HTI-3) final rule in the Federal Register.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | James Cannatti III |Jennifer S. Geetter |Nathan Gray
On December 16, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) final rule in the Federal Register as part of its continued focus on improving information sharing among healthcare stakeholders.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | James Cannatti III |Daniel Gottlieb |Kristen O'Brien
On October 29, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) released a fact sheet titled “Information Blocking Reminders Related to API Technology.” The fact sheet reminds developers of application programming interfaces (APIs) certified under the ASTP’s Health Information Technology (IT) Certification Program and their health care provider customers of practices that constitute information blocking under ASTP’s information...
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Caroline Reignley |Marshall Jackson |James Cannatti III |Lisa S. Mazur
On September 24, 2024, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at
the US Department of Health and Human Services issued a report
recommending additional oversight of remote physiologic monitoring
(RPM) services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries. The full report
is available here.
Many of the issues highlighted by OIG are inherent to the
current RPM codes established by the American Medical Association
(AMA) but may not actually be problematic.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Carole Becker |James Cannatti III |Emily Cook
This special inaugural issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights noticeable enforcement activity, OIG regulatory developments, CMS regulatory developments and other key developments for healthcare providers and suppliers and other organizations from January through April 2022, including False Claims Act (FCA) and federal anti-kickback statute (AKS) settlements and resolutions.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | James Cannatti III |Jennifer S. Geetter |Daniel Gottlieb
On August 5, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability (HTI-2) Proposed Rule in the Federal Register as part of its continued focus on improving information sharing among health care stakeholders through the Health IT...
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | James Cannatti III |Daniel Gottlieb |Kristen O'Brien
On August 5, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP) published the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing, and Public Health Interoperability (HTI-2) Proposed Rule in the Federal Register to update its Health IT Certification Program (Certification Program) requirements and amend the information blocking...
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | James Cannatti III |Daniel Gottlieb
On July 1, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule in the Federal Register to implement a 21st Century Cures Act provision establishing penalties (called “appropriate disincentives”) for certain health care providers determined by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) to have committed information blocking.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | James Cannatti III |Emily Cook |Lauren Ellison
This issue of McDermott’s Healthcare Regulatory Check-Up highlights regulatory activity for May 2024. We discuss several notable cases and enforcement resolutions, including the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s (DC Circuit) favorable decision for drug manufacturers in the ongoing Section 340B dispute and the resolution of several enforcement actions, including some that alleged violations under the False Claims Act (FCA) and federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS).
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | James Cannatti III |Daniel Gottlieb |Nathan Gray
The Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing (HTI-1) final rule, issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), went into effect on March 11, 2024, and establishes a new regulatory framework for certain artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies that support decision-making in health care.
