Debunking HIPAA Omnibus Compliance Myths
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 ...
HIPAA Audits on the Way: Is Your Practice Ready?
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, ...
Is the Affordable Care Act Reducing Health Care Spending?
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 ...
Managing and Reducing Compliance Costs
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 ...
Cyber Risks Threaten Health Care Industry
Although health care companies have historically taken pains to protect patient information, including following privacy and security regulations, this is not always enough to keep this information safe from cyber ...
New Jersey Surgical Practices Must Register With Department of Health
In November, the New Jersey Department of Health alerted all state-licensed physicians that all surgical practices must register with the Department of Health. The alert was sent via a letter ...
New Jersey Doctors Admit to Taking Bribes
Two doctors practicing in Secaucus and Hawthorne, New Jersey recently admitted that they accepted various bribes in exchange for test referrals. The bribery scheme was operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services ...
The Most Common Health Care Compliance Mistakes
With so many compliance issues for health care providers to keep track of, it’s not surprising that mistakes are still all too common. These mistakes can lead to some significant ...
As Compliance Issues Evolve, HIPAA Remains at Forefront
It might seem reasonable to think that, with HIPAA now having been around for the last 20 years, issues with HIPAA violations would be on the decline. But in an ...
The Benefits of Alternative Methods of Health Care Dispute Resolution
Although litigation can be an extremely effective means of resolving disputes over various health care issues with insurers and other defendants, it’s not always the answer for every case. There ...
Last Decade Has Seen Shift in Trends of Litigation Against Health Insurers
In the past, particularly in the 1990s, health care litigation against insurers came primarily from patients who were unsatisfied with the kind of coverage they were receiving for their treatments ...
Affordable Care Act Grants Extended to 20 New Jersey Medical Facilities
Twenty different health care facilities across the state of New Jersey will share approximately $5.5 million in grants through the Affordable Care Act. The money will allow them to bring ...
Affordable Care Act Turns One, Continues to Impact New Jersey
Around this time last year, people were beginning to sign up in the healthcare.gov marketplace for the first time under the Affordable Care Act. With the one-year anniversary of the ...
Connecticut Health Care Reimbursement Issues Underline Flaws in System
There are so many inefficiencies that still continue to plague the health care system at a national and state level, even after all of the reforms that have come into ...
Current Trends in Health Care Reimbursement
With all of the changes made to the health care system in the United States within the last couple years, health care reimbursement has been a particularly hot topic. Here ...