Hacking incidents in healthcare increased dramatically as organizations dealt with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic throughout 2020, according to a recent report from Protenus, a Baltimore-based healthcare analytics company.
Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center in Winchester, Nevada, submitted Medicare claims for rehabilitative services that did not comply with Medicare billing requirements, resulting in an estimated $23.6 million in overpayments submitted over a two-year period, according to an April Office of Inspector General (OIG) report.
Q: We have a patient admitted for COVID-19 who is now showing signs of cytokine release syndrome (CRS). Can you give our team more information on symptoms or clinical indicators for CRS as well as any ICD-10-CM coding advice?
Q: We have heard that Medicare short-stay inpatient admissions may soon come under increasing audit scrutiny by Livanta, the Beneficiary and Family-Centered Care Quality Improvement Organizations that was awarded the nationwide contract for reviewing these admissions. What can we do to reduce our audit risk?
Mobile Anesthesiologists, an Illinois-based company offering healthcare services throughout the country, reported a breach in March affecting 65,403 individuals, according to the Office for Civil Rights breach report.
CMS is holding payments for claims submitted on or after April 1 in anticipation of legislation that will extend the suspension of a 2% cut (sequester) to all Medicare payments, according to a special edition of MLN Connects.
