News & Analysis

December 28, 2015
Briefings on HIPAA

The healthcare industry uses email every day to store, distribute, and discuss critical information. Email has become a vital tool for communication supporting clinical and business operations. It has become one of the largest repositories of confidential files within any organization. Email can represent a significant risk due to lack of protection of its contents. Lack of encryption, misrouting of sensitive patient information, and hitting "reply" without ensuring the message is encrypted and directed to the correct email address will result in a violation of the minimum necessary standard. For those looking for viable solutions to provide greater protection of the sensitive information contained in email, Absio is well worth a look.

December 28, 2015
Medicare Insider

Outpatient coding and billing errors lead to more than half of all automated denials by Recovery Auditors, according to the latest RACTrac survey from the American Hospital Association (AHA).

December 28, 2015
Medicare Insider

There are no new Recovery Auditor issues this week.

December 23, 2015
Medicare Insider

This week’s note is about Medicare Part A and B premiums, deductibles, and coinsurance.

December 23, 2015
Medicare Insider

This week’s updates include calendar year (CY) 2016 annual clinical laboratory fee schedule and laboratory services subject to reasonable charge payment update; Settlement effectuation instructions for HHS Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) Settlement Conference Facilitation (SCF) Pilot; and more!

December 21, 2015
Medicare Insider
Small tweaks to the 2-midnight rule in the 2016 OPPS final rule should help providers, but a lengthy court battle related to the rule could end up making a bad situation worse.  

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