“The Trump Administration has prioritized the elimination of overreaching regulations. In FY 2017, the Trump Administration reduced lifetime net regulatory costs across all agencies by $8.1 billion ($570 million per year). Further, it committed to reducing net lifetime regulatory cost in FY ’18 by another $9.8 billion ($686.6 million per year).2 By contrast, the Obama-Era Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) imposed in just one single example of its administrative overreach almost $22 billion in lifetime regulatory costs3 (more than 1.5 billion per year) on health care providers when it issued regulations and sub-regulatory guidance purporting to implement just one statute, as discussed more fully below…”
“HITECH – The Primary Purpose of HITECH was to Encourage Interoperability for Health Care Purposes by Promoting “the Adoption and Meaningful Use of Interoperable Health Information Technology and Qualified Electronic Health Records.”13 It Was Not Intended to Be Subverted to Benefit Commercial Third Parties Seeking Vast Stores of Patient Health Information, Often Covering Decades of Treatment, That Have to be Manually Compiled and Provided at the Patient Rate. HITECH also amended HIPAA to codify a limited “Third Party Directive” right by which…”
“THE SOLUTION – Correct the Obama-Era Administrative Overreach By Stating that…” Read the full article here.
Source: Obama-Era Administrative Overreach And Its Multi-Billion Dollar Adverse Impact On The U.S. Health Care System – By Michael K. Crossen, Foley & Lardner, December 11, 2018. Mondaq.
