Compliance & Legal
A report issued June 6 by the Kaiser Family Foundation contends that the medical loss requirement (MLR) of the Affordable Care Act saved health insurance consumers $2.1 billion in 2012.
Possible changes are coming to how leases are accounted for on corporate balance sheets. Here's what you need to know.
As the GOP-controlled House of Representatives prepares again to vote this week on a repeal of the 2010 health law, some key Republican senators have seized on recent news developments to show their ire.
The healthcare industry is on notice: Fraud recoveries in the healthcare sector are on the rise and whistle-blowers are the biggest weapon in the fight against fraud.
The tax-exempt status of hospitals has been under attack for decades. But the public's awareness of the way not-for-profit hospitals operate intensified as the result of some high profile court cases in Illinois and Minnesota.
What is the secret to improved financial performance for hospitals in the age of healthcare reform? Understand and manage the convergence of quality, outcomes, patient experience, reimbursements and costs. And there’s no better place to start than with the hospital’s number one expense – the operating room.
Intermountain Health Care, Utah's largest healthcare system, has agreed to pay $25.5 million to settle claims that it violated the federal Stark law and False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR) says it will survey the 115 HIPAA-covered entities that were audited last year to gain insight about their audit experiences.
How are the financial regulations associated with the Affordable Care Act changing the landscape of hospital business offices?
Your organization likely will experience a data breach of some kind. And when it does, people will want to know, what you were doing to prevent one, and how you are going to respond.