Flowdown of Gov't regulations to Software Vendors

[Guest ELu]

Does anyone know if the US Gov't regulations that apply to medicare/medicaid funded healthcare providers flows down to its software vendors? (ex. minority owned business subcontacting)

[GBurns]

A good question, but not 1 that I would have thought of as appearing here.

It would help if you stated which regulations are of concern.

I have not looked at how and if these providers are contracted, but there should be some regulations that will flow down, especially if there is a direct contract between the Federal Gov and the health care providers. I do not know for sure that there is an actual contract or it is just a status.

If there is an actual contract, the Service Contract Act might be the regulation that is of most concern. But then again if there is a new law and it is anything like the HMO Act et al, it will need a good read.

Maybe you should also ask one of the larger providers who also uses software vendors such as the one you are concerned about. They might have already looked at the issue.