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Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act contains nondiscrimination provisions to protect transgender people. In December 2016, however, a federal judge issued an injunction to block the enforcement of "the portion of the Final Rule that interprets discrimination on the basis of 'gender identity' and 'termination of pregnancy'". [117]
The HHS rule was published in the Federal Register on August 24, 2009, [27] and the FTC rule was published on August 25, 2009. [ 28 ] The final significant change made in Subtitle D of the HITECH Act implements new rules for the accounting of disclosures of a patient's health information.
The final rules promulgated by a federal agency and published in the Federal Register are ultimately reorganized by topic or subject matter and re-published (or "codified") in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), which is updated annually.
Daniel R. Levinson was the longest-serving HHS Inspector General from 2004 to 2019. The OIG consists of the following components: Office of Audit Services (OAS). OAS conducts audits that assess HHS programs and operations and examine the performance of HHS programs and grantees. In FY 2020, OIG produced 178 audits.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday said the first rule to set minimum staffing levels at federally funded nursing homes and require that a certain portion of the taxpayer dollars they receive ...
The Final Report organized federal administrative action into two parts: adjudication and rulemaking. [10] Agency adjudication was broken down further into two distinct phases of formal and informal adjudication. Formal adjudication involve a trial-like hearing with witness testimony, a written record, and a final decision. Under informal ...
Under the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act of 2006 (PAHPA) (Pub. L. 109–417 (text)), HHS is the lead agency for the National Response Framework (NRF) for Emergency Support Function 8 (ESF-8). The Secretary of HHS delegates to ASPR the leadership role for all health and medical services support functions in a health emergency or ...
More details on the final rules can be found on the Fact Sheet released by the Department of Health and Human Services. [27] As a result of the new rule, some groups withdrew from the program in August 2019, including Maine Family Planning [28] and Planned Parenthood, which had been providing Title X birth control services to 1.5 million women ...