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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A 21-member, nonpartisan national committee put together by the Institute of Medicine recently concluded after some independent research that overhauls are necessary in the way the federal health care system ...
One of the biggest questions leading up to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act this year was how the act would affect doctors. With the final quarter of the ...
In some states, health care providers must notify patients of a data breach compromised their personally identifiable information, including social security numbers, banking information, credit card numbers and more. Now, ...
