The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced December 8, 2014, that it fined an Alaska behavioral health service $150,000 for potential HIPAA violations. OCR entered into a resolution agreement with Anchorage Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS), a nonprofit behavioral healthcare service, per the announcement (see www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/enforcement/examples/acmhs/amchs-capsettle...).
This week’s updates include OIG inspector testimonies and H.R. 2 Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. Click the link above to read more about this week’s updates.
Teaser: This week’s updates include OIG’s March 2015 Compendium of Unimplemented Recommendations and NCDs proposed for removal. Click the link above to read more about this week’s updates.
This week’s updates include removal of multiple NCDs and April 2015 update of the ASC payment system. Click the link above to read more about this week’s updates.
