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ProviderTrust Achieves 2 Major Milestones – HITRUST Certification and Monitoring of 10 Million Healthcare Individuals and Entities

Provider Trust

This landmark milestone represents a continued commitment by ProviderTrust and its nearly 1,000 healthcare client organizations to ensure Medicare and Medicaid dollars are protected from fraud, waste, and abuse. Healthcare compliance plays an instrumental role in the success of the entire healthcare ecosystem.

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False Claims Act Settlements Exceed $5.6 Billion in Fiscal Year 2021

Healthcare Compliance Blog

billion in settlements and judgments have been recovered by the Department of Justice Department (DOJ) related to civil cases involving fraud and false claims in fiscal year 2021. In 2009 and 2010, further improvements were made to the False Claims Act and its whistleblower provisions. More than $5.6

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ChristianaCare Settlement Drives New Legal Theory in False Claims Act Litigation: Hospitals Take Note When Providing Clinical Services to Their Private Physician Groups

Healthcare Law Blog

million to resolve a lawsuit filed by the system’s former Chief Compliance Officer, Ronald Sherman. ChristianaCare denied these allegations and claimed that Sherman was granted the necessary authority in full compliance with the CIA. Delaware-based ChristianaCare Health System (ChristianaCare) [1] recently agreed to pay $47.1

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Elder Abuse Awareness for the Healthcare Workforce

AIHC

The estimated homicide rate for men increased by 7% from 2010 to 2016. The article states that Americans over 60 years of age fell victim to so-called elder fraud crimes more frequently last year than during any other year and accounted for an estimated $3.4 billion in total reported losses.

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The History of Healthcare Compliance

MedTrainer

Compliance in healthcare began to encompass billing, fraud, and abuse prevention. Compliance efforts shifted toward protecting patient information. Compliance efforts expanded to encompass EHR security. Compliance evolved to include performance reporting and quality metrics.