Recently, healthcare has been one of the most torrid industries for acquisitions and capital investment. Here at HCN we have been busy providing regulatory compliance due diligence to private equity firms, super groups, hospital systems, and ACOs looking to acquire or...
Telehealth is the remote or virtual delivery of healthcare services. CMS defines telehealth as a two-way, real-time interactive communication between a patient and a physician or practitioner at a distant site through telecommunications equipment that includes, at a...
NY State employers must comply with new regulations to prevent the spread of airborne infectious disease in the workplace
It has been 38 years since OSHA has issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), but the agency has determined that COVID-19 presents such a serious risk to healthcare workers that they have issued an ETS for Healthcare. Under this ETS, employers are required to help...
The exchange or release of health information is essential to the provision of high quality and cost-effective health care. The information released should be within the scope of the request, complete based on the nature of the request and submitted timely. This...
The importance of a well-fitting mask has been especially important during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have seen an increase in formal fit test evaluations over the past year due to the needs of the current crisis. Now that PPE is readily available and overall emergency...
The 21st Century Cures Act ("Cures Act") was approved by Congress in 2016 with the intent to provide electronic access, exchange, and use of health information across all different types of health care entities. On May 1, 2020, the Cures Act's final rule became...
ELEMENTS may seem like an unusual name for a newsletter but for us, the word is pretty much of a North Star. We use the “7 Elements of Compliance “to guide everything we do. A little history by way of explanation. In the mid 1990’s the CDC, OSHA and other government...
GDPR is similar in concept to HIPAA/HITECH for the United States, but not only does it protect an individual’s health information (PHI), but it covers all personal data.