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Attacks at US Hospitals Show Why Health Care Is One of the Nation’s Most Violent Fields
Rebecca Boone, for AP News: Data shows American health care workers now suffer more nonfatal injuries from workplace violence than workers in any other profession, including…
Should Patient Consent Be Considered When Using AI/RPA Technology for Prior Authorization?
From Physician’s Weekly: The HIPAA Privacy Rule doesn’t specify provisions for protecting PHI data entered in AI technologies. What the rule does stipulate is that healthcare…
How to Measure Acuity-Adjusted Panel Size for Contemporary Provider Compensation Plans
A report from VMG Health by Anthony Domanico, CVA, and Ben Minnis discussing the growing trend of introducing empanelment metrics into compensation formulas: Empanelment can take…
FTC Emerges as Leader in Health Privacy Enforcement
Kirk J. Nahra, Ali A. Jessani, and Samuel Kane, for WilmerHale: In the past several weeks, the FTC has taken two additional actions that further signal…
OAG Files Appeal to Texas Supreme Court, Blocking Judge’s Injunction in Lawsuit Over Exceptions to State Abortion Laws
Erica Pauda, for KXAN: The Office of the Attorney General filed an appeal Saturday to the Texas Supreme Court after a Texas judge issued a temporary…
Physicians Who Lost Their License Elsewhere Can No Longer Practice in Texas
Will Maddox, for D Magazine: HB 1998 bars physicians who have committed moral terpitude felonies and misdemeanors from practicing in Texas and requires the Texas Medical…
Why Doctors Using ChatGPT Are Unknowingly Violating HIPAA
From ScienceBlog: Physicians are using ChatGPT for many things, mainly to consolidate notes. There has been a lot of focus on using AI to quickly find…
Texas Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Helps Secure 49-Month Sentence and Over $5 Million Restitution in Orthopedic Supplies Fraud Case
Press Release, Texas Attorney General: Kenric Wakeen Griffin, co-owner of New Horizons Durable Medical Equipment based in Frisco, TX, was sentenced to 49 months of federal…
Biden Administration Announces National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy
Steve Adler, for The HIPAA Journal: The Biden Administration has unveiled its National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy (NCWES) which seeks to address the current cyber…
What Employers Need to Know about the Mental Health Parity Proposed Regulations
Suzanne G. Odom, for JacksonLewis: On July 25, 2023, the tri-agencies of the Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (the Departments) issued a…