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Health Industry Washington Watch
CMS Announces 90-Day Enforcement Discretion Period for HIPAA Eligibility & Claim Status Operating Rules
On January 2, 2013, CMS announced a 90-day “enforcement discretion period” with respect to operating rules mandated by the ACA for two transactions: eligibility for a health plan and health…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Daily Read: Leslie Griffin on Free Exercise and the ACA
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In a guest post over at the American Constitution Society blog, Professor Leslie Griffin (pictured) discusses the numerous decisions in challenges to the ACA's mandate of reproductive coverage on the…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Federal Court Dismisses Notre Dame’s Challenge to Contraception Mandate
The Hill - Healthwatch: Judge boots Notre Dame's case against birth-control mandate, by Elise Viebeck:A federal judge has dismissed the University of Notre Dame's suit against the Obama administration's birth-control…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Hobby Lobby Refuses to Comply with Contraceptive Mandate while Awaiting Federal Court Decision
The Daily Beast: HobbyLobby Risks Fines to Defy Obamacare, by David Sessions: After being denied a legalreprieve, the evangelical-owned craft chain is defying Affordable Care Actregulations on emergency-contraception coverage, risking…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Seventh Circuit Temporarily Blocks Contraception Mandate for Illinois Construction Company
SCOTUSblog: Religious employer wins big - temporarily, by Lyle Denniston:In the most significant federal appeals court ruling so far on the new federal health care law’s contraceptives mandate, the Seventh Circuit…
Health Law Prof Blog
Contraception coverage continues, for now…
From SCOTUSblog, for those following Hobby Lobby's pursuit of the ACA's requirement that insurers cover contraceptives without requiring copayments:Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor refused on Wednesday afternoon to block enforcement…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Sotomayor Rejects Hobby Lobby’s Emergency Stay of ACA Contraception Coverage Mandate
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In her role as Circuit Justice for the Tenth Circuit, Justice Sonia Sotomayor today rejected an application for an injunction pending appellate review from Hobby Lobby. In her brief order in Hobby…
The Right Coast
Victory Against HHS Mandate in Missouri – By Ed Whelan – Bench Memos – National Review Online
Yesterday a federal district judge in Missouri entered a preliminary injunction against the HHS mandate on behalf of Paul Griesedieck, Henry Griesedieck, and the businesses they own and run (which…
Health Industry Washington Watch
IRS Regulations Implement Insurer Fee to Fund PCORI Trust Fund
On December 6, 2012, the IRS published final regulations implementing fees on issuers of certain health insurance policies and plan sponsors of certain self-insured health plans to fund the Patient-Centered…
Health Industry Washington Watch
HHS Proposed Rule on ACA Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2014
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a proposed rule on December 7, 2012 to establish additional regulatory requirements regarding ACA health insurance provisions that go into effect…