With significant changes in the medical field due to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the current fee-for-service health care model is likely on its way out. However, though ...
The Stark Law was originally implemented in the 1990s and among its provisions it prohibited physicians from “self-referring” Medicare patients. However, there is an exception in this law that allow ...
Your patients’ health information requires careful safeguarding. When the security of this information is breached, your practice may face not only serious HIPAA-related penalties, but you risk the personal and ...
HIPAA is a complex and often misunderstood law designed to protect the privacy and security of patient health information. The law has carefully crafted stipulations on exactly how health care ...
The U.S. Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services will soon be starting to conduct random HIPAA audits. These audits will target health care facilities, ...
Recently President Obama reported to the Business Roundtable that increases in health care spending are at an historic low and credited this reduction to the Affordable Care Act. While it ...
Compliance costs represent a heavy burden for health care organizations. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ 2014 survey, nearly a third of health care providers estimated their annual corporate compliance budgets add up ...
