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Health Care In the COVID-19 Era – PwC Finds Self-Rationing of Care and Meds Especially for Chronic Care

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The positive finding in this research is that one-third of people dealing with at least one chronic condition sought health care through virtual means, telehealth, in the pandemic.

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Florida Law Requires Hospitals to Report Patients’ Immigration Status

Scrubs

The law builds off the governor’s 2021 executive order that required managed care plans and hospitals to report all Medicaid and governmental expenditures incurred on behalf of noncitizens. The group argued that immigration status should be protected under HIPAA.

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Managed Care History Part II- HMOs Give Way to Managed Care “Lite”

The Healthcare Blog

HIPAA Sets Stage for 24/7 Electronic Surveillance of Medical Decision Making The other little remarked development provided the technical foundation for a payer controlled care system- the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). There were two ACO concessions to the post-HMO backlash environment.

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New HIPAA Regulations in 2022-2023

The HIPAA Journal

It has been several years since new HIPAA regulations have been signed into law, but HIPAA changes in 2022 are expected. The last update to the HIPAA Rules was the HIPAA Omnibus Rule in 2013, which introduced new requirements mandated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.

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