Three months ago, the United States Department of Justice announced that it had a record year for money made through recoveries under the False Claims Act. Recoveries in 2014 reached ...
Phase II HIPAA audits are coming soon, and while each individual hospital has a very small chance of actually being the subject of an audit, it is still important to ...
A couple of months into 2015, we are still piecing together what we can expect to be the major issues facing the health care industry this year. In terms of ...
It’s been five years now since the Affordable Care Act was officially enacted. It required Medicaid and Medicare providers to put a compliance and ethics system in place, and at ...
A new survey by Kaufman Hall, a health care consulting firm, indicates that hospital mergers and acquisitions came at a rapid rate in 2014. While the 95 deals that occurred ...
As has been very well documented over the past six years, the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act is not without its detractors, especially in congress. Now, a group of ...
On Tuesday, February 17, one day after open enrollment ended for Affordable Care Act coverage for 2015, the White House announced that more than 11 million people will be covered ...
Anthem Inc., one of the nation’s largest providers of health insurance, was the subject of a significant security breach in early February that resulted in up to 80 million people ...
March marks the five-year anniversary of the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It’s hard to believe it has already been five years. And while there have ...
Every time an emergency public health situation arises in the news, a debate ensues about patient privacy. Strict Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards ensure that patients receive privacy, ...
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, ...
