HHS recently issued its Summer 2021 OCR Cybersecurity Newsletter, covering the topic of controlling access to ePHI. HHS officials cited a Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations report that found 61% of analyzed data breaches in the healthcare sector were perpetrated by external threat actors and 39% were carried out by insiders.
Nonprofit hospitals are falling short when it comes to completing community needs assessments required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to an August research letter published by JAMA Network Open.
This week's note from the instructor delves into how recent OIG hospital audits can be used as guides for self-monitoring via internal audits and quality reviews.
Inadequate documentation is a common pain point for coding and CDI efforts. Learn how one organization created a documentation education resource for their physicians.
This week’s Medicare updates include billing and coding updates for COVID-19 booster shots, new items on the OIG Work Plan, a proposed decision memo on an NCD for Transvenous (Catheter) Pulmonary Embolectomy, and more!
