The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions ("FACT") Act, signed into Public Law 108-159 on December 4, 2003, is a consumer credit law that includes medical privacy provisions. FACT amends the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), adding improved protections against identity theft and adding limits on how medical information is used.

The Office of the Attorney General ("OAG") published a May 14, 2004 letter, providing information regarding its web-based "Residential Death Reporting" system and clarifying the death reporting requirements imposed on health care facilities.

Health News - Section 508 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act ("DIMA") authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (the "Secretary") to grant hospitals one-time wage reclassification to another area within the same or a contiguous state if the applying hospital does not otherwise qualify for wage reclassification.

An amendment proposed by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) to S. 1637, entitled "Jumpstart Our Business Strength" ("JOBS"), could impose health privacy requirements upon health care providers, in addition to those imposed by the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Sen. Clinton's amendment, filed on March 23, 2004, provides that no American business may transmit "personally identifiable information" about an American citizen to a foreign affiliate or subcontractor abroad unless it informs the citizen whether th

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on November 13, 2003, in <I>Smith v. City of Jackson, Miss</I>., that the disparate impact theory of discrimination is not available under the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).

Last week, two separate U.S. House of Representatives subcommittees held hearings regarding hospital charges and billing and collection practices. The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight also considered under what conditions a non-profit hospital should be able to retain its tax-exempt status. The committees are considering whether hospitals should be required to disclose their prices and whether some hospitals are overcharging the uninsured and subjecting them to "aggressive" colle

In a toxic tort case arising from drilling, completion, and hydraulic fracturing activities in a residential area, Antero Resources Corporation obtained a dismissal with prejudice of all of the plaintiffs’ claims for failure to make a prima facie showing of exposure, injury, and causation in accordance with "Lore v. Lone Pine Corp.", 1986 WL 637507 (N.J. Sup. Ct., Nov. 18, 1986).

On February 10, 2004, Representative Pete Stark (D-CA) introduced a new bill entitled "The Long Term Care Hospital Moratorium Act."

On September 8, 2011, the Tax Exempt Bonds staff of the Internal Revenue Service (the "Service") hosted a teleconference to explain updates to its Voluntary Closing Agreement Program (VCAP), which allows issuers to voluntarily come forward to the Service with identified violations relating to its bonds and work towards a mutual resolution to correct the violation.

By 2020, the United States is expected to have a nursing shortage of at least 800,000 nurses. Despite this statistic, a growing number of qualified students are being turned away from nursing schools due to limited faculty, funding, and space.

In November 2012, the COMESA Competition Commission (the Commission) approved guidelines that require notification to the Commission if a merger or other transaction involves two or more member states.

Munir Patel, an administrative clerk at London’s Redbridge Magistrates’ Court whose October guilty plea made him the first person to be convicted under the new UK Bribery Act, was sentenced this morning in the Southwark Crown Court to six years in prison.