News & Analysis

August 11, 2015
Medicare Insider

While many providers are still digesting the IPPS Final Rule, muddling through how the OPPS Proposed Rule might impact their bottom line, and kicking rocks because the 2-midnight rule was not chucked, President Obama signed a bill into law on August 6, 2015—and it’s one providers should note. Unanimously approved by both the House and Senate earlier this year, the Notice of Observation Treatment and Implication for Care Eligibility Act, otherwise called the NOTICE Act, will not take effect until August 2016, but will certainly add one more layer to the administrative burden associated with outpatient observation services when it does.

August 4, 2015
Medicare Insider

This week’s note is about signature requirements. Click the link above for more information and an in-depth analysis.

August 1, 2015
HIM Briefings

Finding themselves at the center of a tumultuous, dynamic healthcare environment, physicians are becoming increasingly frustrated and anxious, frequently questioning their career choice. Preparation to be a lifelong healthcare provider inadequately prepares clinicians for the emerging value-based healthcare world to which they are being subjected. Physicians believe that they have little control over or input into the metrics that are rapidly determining their fates with healthcare organizations, third-party payers, and inevitably patients themselves.

August 1, 2015
Briefings on HIPAA

If your organization experiences a data breach—an increasingly likely scenario—and PHI is exposed, chances are you will be hit with a lawsuit in short order.

August 1, 2015
Briefings on HIPAA

There are compelling reasons with which to make a case to company executives of the benefits of a good data security program. It starts with return on investment calculations.

August 1, 2015
Briefings on HIPAA

There are times when state privacy and security laws trump HIPAA, and healthcare organizations and their business associates (BA) should have a clear understanding of their compliance obligations in the midst of what can be a complex web of regulations.

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