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Title VII Claims by Third Parties

Following a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, employers face potential plaint of unlawful discrimination), but also by employees who have a close relationship with whoever engages in protected activity. The...

Tornado Emergency Plan

The following is a template for a Tornado Emergency Plan to implement in your office. Before a tornado: Review your escape plan (in your OSHA setup materials) to learn the route. Locate and/or designate the...

CMS Provides First Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Payments; Providers Offered Flexibility in Adopting E-Prescribing

CMS recently announced that the first payments of the Medicare EHR Incentive Program were distributed on May 19. As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Medicare EHR Incentive Program provides...

More on HIPAA's Accounting of Disclosures Proposed Rule

Covered entities (CE) and business associates (BA) finally know the details of the accounting of disclosures provision in HITECH now that the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule...

HHS Publishes HITECH Accounting of Disclosures Proposed Rule

On Friday, May 27, 2011, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) published a HITECH-required proposed rule on accounting of disclosures of electronic health records (EHRs). The rule will ultimately lay the...

BA Contracts under HIPAA HITECH

Many of you have inquired about the following question regarding business associates over the past weeks, so we thought we would review this again. Q: A covered entity encounters difficulty when executing updated...

MSDS Replacement Frequency

Q: How often must we replace MSDSs in our MSDS file? A: OSHA requires that employers have a current MSDS for hazardous substances in the workplace. An updated MSDS included with the product can get misplaced,...

Copies of MRI Reports

Q. We are a referral-based MRI facility. As a standard procedure, we fax MRI reports to referring providers after radiologist review. Patients can schedule follow-up appointments with referring providers to obtain...

Transporting Blood and Urine Samples

We frequently get questions about transporting blood and urine samples. The following will help you understand what is required. Q. Do the samples need to be in a biohazard bag when transported either by...

FMLA Leave When Natural Disasters Strike

The following article came from www.fmlainsights.com and was written by attorney, Jeff Nowak. Natural disasters like the kind we recently have witnessed in the flood-ravaged areas of the Southern United States...