Healthcare Administrative Partners, a medical billing company in Pennsylvania that provides billing, coding, and practice management services to hospital-affiliated physician practices, recently notified 17,693 patients of a data breach that may have exposed their protected health information.
Q: Does a Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP) have to be included in a lobby or just handed out to patients during admission? What are good practices generally with the NPP?
Carolinas Hospital in Florence, South Carolina, received $431,757 in Medicare overpayments for incorrectly billed inpatient and outpatient services, according to an Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit report released November 26. Based on the sample, the OIG estimates the hospital may have received at least $3.4 million in overpayments.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) increased civil monetary penalties for HIPAA administrative simplification violations on November 5 in accordance with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its clinical guidance for diagnosing and treating electronic cigarette- or vaping-associated lung injuries (EVALI) in light of the approaching 2019-2020 flu season.
