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Authorizing a hospital, in its credentialing and privileging process for a physician who provides medical services to patients at the hospital only through telemedicine from a distant-site hospital or distant-site telemedicine entity, to rely on credentialing and...

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An act concerning Public Health - Medical Records Charges - Medicaid Enrollees for the purpose of prohibiting a health care provider from charging a certain person who requests a copy of a medical record of an individual enrolled in the Maryland Medical Assistance...

HSCRC proposed action to decrease the number of days for hospital outpatient data submission from 60 days to 45 days

Number: MD HB 510 Title: Health Care Decisions Act - Advance Directives - Electronic Documents and Electronic Signatures Status: Approved by Governor - Chapter 79 - 04/08/2008 Abstract: Establishing, for purposes of the Health Care Decisions Act, that an electronic...

Beginning April 1, 2008, all written prescriptions for Medicaid recipients must be on paper with at least one tamper-resistant feature as outlined by CMS and defined by your State.  Beginning October 1, 2008, these same prescriptions must be on paper that meets all...

New Maryland Law effective January 1, 2008: Click Here Addresses destruction of personal information by Maryland businesses and their contracted third parties. Requires businesses, when destroying a customer's records that contain certain personal information of the...

The next workgroup meeting to discuss The Ambulatory Surgery Guaranteed Revenue System will be held: When: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 1:30 PM-3:30 PM EST Where: HSCRC's Large Conference Room Learn More

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May 23, 2007 is the day the National Provider Law goes into effect. Once a provider has received their NPI, they should share their NPIs with other providers with whom they do business, and with health plans that request their NPIs.  In fact, as outlined in current...

House Bill 979

Bill introduced by Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) relating to HIPAA.  Its purpose is an attempt to eliminate some of the confusion surrounding the HIPAA Privacy Regulation and to increase privacy.  Among other things, the bill proposes to...

As of Jan. 1 2007 a new provision of the Deficit Reduction Act (originally signed into law Feb 8, 2006) becomes effective.  This is Section 6032, titled “Employee Education About False Claims Recovery.”  It mandates that health care or any company receiving federal...

As a result of changing practices, the Supreme Court approved amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on April 13, 2006, to address the unique aspects of electronic discovery. The amendments will take effect December 1, 2006, and begin to change HIM...

Maryland's New Social Security Number Privacy Act may affect your facility! Click here to read the new law that became effective January 1, 2006. Contact legal counsel for your facility to discuss the impact of this new law on the operations of your facility.

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene supported a bill passed in 2001 requiring all healthcare facilities to adopt a universal emergency code language. The Universal Code is effective September 1, 2002. New universal emergency codes effective September...