The Department of Health and Human Services has asked some laid-off staff if they could return to work temporarily, as the department grapples with a backlog of grants that has swelled to more than a ...

Extension of Prior HHS OIG Guidance. The new Guidance follows more than a decade of HHS OIG advice to boards on compliance program oversight. The HHS OIG first issued guidance for health care ...

The abrupt cancelation by HHS RFK jr. of a critical preventive health task force meeting last week has once again raised ...

In its latest report, HHS’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) has yet again identified EHRs and health IT as one of the 10 biggest management and performance challenges facing HHS in the ensuing ...

The HHS to Industry: Let’s Connect on Medical Supply Chain Issues The pandemic showed “the need for critical public health industrial investments at a scale never seen before in the United ...

In the tenth HIPAA enforcement action in recent weeks, federal regulators have announced a $100,000 settlement in yet another case involving failure to provide a patient with timely access to their ...

HHS has issued a final rule implementing ACA section 1557, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability by any health program or activity that ...

HHS’ Immediate Office of the Secretary issued a request for information June 7 seeking public comment on an initiative to spur innovation and investment in the healthcare industry.

On December 21, 2016, the HHS OIG posted a report summarizing its early review of CMS’s management of the implementation of the Quality Payment Program (QPP) and related findings (“Report ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday released a policy prohibiting public comments during his department’s rulemaking process, ending more than 50 years of the ...

A 2006 order to HHS from Congress to better integrate U.S. data management systems could have minimized communication failures during the COVID-19 pandemic.