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BY: Alissa Gulin
POSTED: June 4, 2013 Tags: Department of Health and Human Services, Government, grants, hospital, jobs, Montgomery County, national institues of health, nih, research, sequestration
The National Institutes of Health will award about 700 fewer competitive research grants this year than last year and slash other services to deal with budget cuts mandated by sequestration, according to a report released Monday night by the federal medical research agency.
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BY: Barry Rosen
POSTED: February 28, 2013 Tags: barry f. rosen, Business, business news, Department of Health and Human Services, legal commentary, legal news, maryland
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the federal Department of Health and Human Services recently released two advisory opinions clarifying the reach of the federal anti-kickback statute. That law makes it illegal for anyone to pay or receive money or other benefits designed to induce the referral of a patient for items or services payable by a federal health care program, such as Medicare.
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BY: Kaiser Health News
POSTED: August 29, 2012 Tags: act, Affordable Care Act, Department of Health and Human Services, doctor, federal government, Health Care, hospitals, improvement, maryland, spending
If quiet negotiations between policymakers and industry bear fruit, Maryland could join the short list of states attempting to go far beyond the Affordable Care Act in improving health and limiting spending. Federal officials are urging Maryland and its powerful health industry to build on the state’s unique hospital rate-setting system to develop sweeping cost [...]
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BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 11, 2012 Tags: Department of Health and Human Services, maryland, N.C. Department of Agriculture, outbreak, salmonella, tempeh online
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Officials say a Maryland company distributed an ingredient that triggered a salmonella outbreak that’s made almost 60 Buncombe County residents sick. The Asheville Citizen-Times reported the state Department of Health and Human Services confirms that a culture starter for tempeh had the type of salmonella that caused the outbreak. Authorities say Tempeh [...]
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BY: Associated Press
POSTED: August 17, 2011 Tags: cancer, cigarette, corpse, Department of Health and Human Services, food and drug administration, labels, litigation, lung disease, r.j reynolds, smoker, smoking, tobacco, tobacco companies Comments: 2
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tobacco companies want a judge to put a stop to new graphic cigarette labels that include the sewn-up corpse of a smoker and pictures of diseased lungs, saying they unfairly urge adults to shun their legal products and will cost millions to produce. Four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies sued [...]
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BY: Erin Drenning
POSTED: July 4, 2011 Tags: bill blackford, books, Department of Health and Human Services, goodnight moon, jamie b. seward, jeffri pierre, malcolm gladwell, state highway administration, to kill a mockingbird
Crashing waves, a bustling boardwalk, cruiser bikes and an ice cream shop on every corner: It’s the makeup of a quintessential East Coast summer vacation. And one crucial component of the perfect beach trip is the perfect read. We asked Maryland lawyers, “What books will be in your beach bag this summer?” Here are their [...]
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BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 22, 2011 Tags: cignet health, Department of Health and Human Services, health insurance portability and accountability act, maryland, medical records, office for civil rights, patients, Prince George's County, records, temple hills
WASHINGTON — The federal government said Tuesday it has fined Cignet Health of Prince George’s County, Md., $4.3 million for violating 41 patients’ privacy rights by denying them access to their medical records. The Department of Health and Human Services said it was the first time it imposed a fine for violations of the privacy [...]
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BY: Barry Rosen
POSTED: February 14, 2011 Tags: barry f. rosen, Department of Health and Human Services, Early retirees, federal health care reform, Health Care, medicaid, medicare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as federal Health Care Reform, contains a myriad of new programs and rules that affect employers, employees, health insurance plans and health care providers. This is the second in a series of columns providing a sampling of those new rules. Early retirees PPACA creates a temporary [...]
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BY: Barry Rosen
POSTED: January 10, 2011 Tags: Accountable Care Organizations, American Medical Association, barry f. rosen, Department of Health and Human Services, federal health care reform, Health Care, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, National Committee for Quality Assurance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ppaca, reform
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), better known as federal health care reform, contains myriad new rules that affect employers, employees, health insurance plans and health care providers. This is the first in a series of columns providing a sampling of those new rules. Accountable care organizations One PPACA initiative is the creation [...]
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