Regulations: CMS issues IPPS correction, OCR publishes HIPAA proposal
Medicare Weekly Update, October 13, 2009
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CMS issues IPPS correction
On October 7, CMS issued a correction in the Federal Register to its previously issued IPPS final rule for 2010.
OCR publishes HIPAA proposed rule in Federal Register
On October 7, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule that would strengthen privacy protections for genetic information, as required by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008. The OCR had previously issued the proposal in display copy.
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