Compliance: The Next Big Thing  

Category: Auditing

(... after EHR Meaningful Use, ICD-10, HIPAA, and new CMS-1500 Claim forms...)

By Evan M. Gwilliam, DC MBA BS CPC CCPC NCICS CCCPC CPC-I MCS-P CPMA

The last few years have seen significant changes and new regulations in the business of healthcare. Many providers are concerned that this administrative burden increases the cost of delivering care by taking time away from patient face to face time. After all, most health care providers got into the business because they want to spend time healing patients, not figuring out the latest paperwork challenge. While some of these programs, such as ICD-10 and Meaningful Use, should, in theory, eventually improve the efficiency of health care delivery, experts agree that they initially increase the workload. At first glance, a compliance program looks like bureaucratic headache imposed by a government that is too out of touch t...