COVID-19 LAB TESTS RECEIVING FDA EMERGENCY USE AUTHORIZATION ((s) = Serology Test (a) = Antigen Test (t) = Total Antibody Test (m) = Multi-analyte Test) Date Manufacturer(s) Test … [Read more...]
Current Issue of NIR
January 1, 2021
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COVID-19
OIG Warns Medicare Beneficiaries Not to Fall for COVID-19 Scams
December 21, 2020
Pharma companies, diagnostics manufacturers, labs and other parts of the healthcare industry have done a commendable job in pivoting in response to the current public health industry. Sadly, scammers … [Read more...]
HIPAA
HHS Proposes Significant Value-Based Care Changes to HIPAA Privacy Rule
December 21, 2020
As its days dwindle down, the current administration is mobilizing for one final push to reduce what it perceives to be unnecessarily burdensome regulation, including on the medical privacy front. On … [Read more...]
Focus On
OCR Audit Gives Providers Mixed Results for HIPAA Compliance
December 20, 2020
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) requires the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to periodically audit covered entities and business associates for … [Read more...]
Enforcement Trends
COVID-19 Distractions Cause 2020 OIG Health Care Fraud Recoveries to Dip to 5-Year Low
December 20, 2020
Not surprisingly, the COVID-19 pandemic is hampering federal fraud fighting. The recoveries numbers bear this out. Here are the key findings from the OIG’s new Semi-Annual Report to Congress … [Read more...]
Special Report: Long-Awaited Kickback Relief Rules Leave Labs Out in the Cold
December 20, 2020
The final rule for value-based care kickback relief that HHS and the OIG published on Nov. 20 is slightly more favorable to labs than the proposed rule published in October 2019. But with a limited … [Read more...]
FOCUS ON
The Year in Labs Regulation: The 9 Biggest Stories of 2020
December 20, 2020
When 2020 started, COVID-19 was just a news story unfolding on the other side of the globe in China. The novelty of the pathogen meant that there were no tests specifically targeting the virus on the … [Read more...]
National Intelligence Report Newsletter Archive
December 1, 2020
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