This week’s updates include payment changes for home health agencies and OIG’s 2015 work plan. Click the link above to read more about this week’s updates.
Privacy and information security programs in healthcare organizations have developed and matured to meet the requirements of HIPAA and other federal and state laws. In some organizations, providers and managers struggle to keep pace with the changes. Expanded focus on EHR technology and new threats to the security of personally identifiable information (e.g., healthcare, financial, educational, employment) will further affect privacy and information security programs in the future.
In an effort to make physicians more accountable for proper documentation, CMS has been doing the transmittal shuffle as of late--and the process may have you thoroughly confused.
