Compliance & Legal
The ongoing partial federal government shutdown is having a varied impact on healthcare provider operations. Some have experienced the impact in the form of curtailed survey and certification activities.
The HHS Office for Civil Rights has made a number of recent announcements regarding HIPAA Privacy Rule implementation.
UnityPoint Health is notifying 1,800 patients that their protected health records have been compromised after it was discovered that an employee of the health system's third party contractor gained unauthorized access to patient records.
The Medical Group Management Association 2013 annual conference will offer a granular focus on the policy and technology issues that matter to physician practices, said Robert Tennant, MGMA's senior policy advisor.
The ICD-10 transition is a wonderful opportunity for collaboration. More accurately, collaboration is a necessity.
With the turbulence of healthcare reform has come an increase in the prevalence of severance agreements in contracts between healthcare organizations and CEOs found the 2013 Health Care CEO Severance Survey.
Someone in your medical practice needs to take charge of the ICD-10 transition. Why can't that someone be you?
A federal court judge dismissed a lawsuit Monday intended to eliminate the observation classification, or require hospitals to tell patients when they are under observation and then create a clear appeals process to challenge Medicare’s coverage decisions.
Lawyers for a radiology practice are asking a federal appeals court in Richmond to let them challenge Virginia's certificate of need law, after a district court dismissed a lawsuit brought against the Virginia Department of Health.
A recently unsealed lawsuit alleges that Vanderbilt Medical Center has been systematically billing Medicare fraudulent charges for at least a decade.