POWERS Counsel Rebecca “Becky” Burke, is one of three new members on the Health Law Section Steering Committee of the D.C. Bar. She is featured in the D.C. Bar Health Law Section of the August Newsletter.
Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville Principal Jim Pyles co-led a series of Clearwater Compliance webinars on August 7, 14, and 21 on the Omnibus HIPAA/HITECH Final Rule. The sessions provided thorough instruction on implementing the new regulations, ways to mitigate risk of noncompliance, and strategies to prepare for OCR and CMS audits. Physicians and other health care providers implemented the new HIPAA requirements by the September 23, 2013 compliance deadline.
On July 23, 2013, the Health Resources and Services Administration promulgated a final rule – and the 340B program’s first regulations – to implement a statutory provision that restricts Critical Access Hospitals, Sole Community Hospitals, Rural Referral Centers, freestanding cancer hospitals, and their contract pharmacies, from purchasing “orphan drugs” at 340B‐discounted prices (Final Rule).1