HIPAA Security Breaches: Taking a Proactive Approach
Gone are the days when paper charts could be kept in a file cabinet under lock and key. Today, health care facilities are becoming more frequent targets of massive data breaches.
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Overthinking Overpayments from Medicare
Since passage of the Affordable Care Act, compliance officers and attorneys have struggled to comply with the new rule requiring notification and repayment of Medicare overpayments within 60 days.
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CHIME Launches New Center to Help Industry Improve Cybersecurity
In an effort to better equip healthcare organizations to combat cyber-attacks, the College of Healthcare Information Executives (CHIME) today announced the creation of the CHIME Cybersecurity Center and Program Office. ...
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DOL Releases Final Overtime Rule
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued the long-anticipated final overtime rule on May 18 and included an exempt employee threshold of $47,476-less than the proposed rule's $50,440 but slightly more than double the old threshold of $23,660.
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PQRS: Choosing Quality Measures That Make Sense
Now that you've chosen your reporting mechanism, the next task at hand is to select which measures you will choose for reporting. So what exactly is a qualitymeasure
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Pass-Through Billing and Shared Labs
Pass-through billing is an arrangement between a physician practice and a reference laboratory that allows the physician practice to submit specimens to the reference lab for testing, pay that laboratory directly, and then bill the payer (insurance o...
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Modernizing Patient Payment Collection
Collections of patients' outstanding bills, those charges not covered by health insurance plans, are set to challenge medical practices across the country, if they haven't already.
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CMS chops controversial two-midnight rule payment cut
CMS released its proposed rule to update the 2017 Medicare payment rates under the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (PPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System
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