Avoiding Health Care Compliance Violations
Health care providers face a heavy burden in staying current on the countless federal laws and regulations with which they must comply. For business entities, this burden can be especially ...
Health care providers face a heavy burden in staying current on the countless federal laws and regulations with which they must comply. For business entities, this burden can be especially ...
The Stark Law is a federal health care statute that limits physician referrals. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has made some important changes to the Stark Law that medical providers ...
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is intended to protect the privacy of patients’ health information. But navigating HIPAA can be confusing because it is often difficult to ...
Doctors can struggle to pay bills too. A few years ago, California switched Medicaid payment contractors, and the botched handoff resulted in months-long delays in payments to health care providers. ...
In April 2012, Kathleen Sebelius was in a triumphant mood. “We have a simple message to criminals thinking about committing Medicare fraud: don’t even try,” the Health and Human Services ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has spent more than $1 trillion on health care programs so far this year. That sets the record for money spent by ...