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Your Healthcare Compliance Due Diligence Checklist

Compliancy Group

A healthcare compliance due diligence checklist is one essential tool that can help organizations in their quest for compliance. What is a Healthcare Compliance Due Diligence Checklist? A healthcare compliance due diligence checklist outlines the steps and processes to ensure organizational compliance.

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Settlement Agreed with Florida Children’s Health Insurance Website Contractor to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

HIPAA Journal

FHKC is a state-created entity that offers health and dental insurance to children in Florida between the ages of 5 and 18. FHKC receives Medicaid funds and state funds for providing health insurance programs for children in Florida.

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Is Your Data Supply Chain Ethical? Don’t Restrict Due Diligence to Physical Operations.

C&M Health Law

bribery, fraud, misuse). Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) can present several areas of exposure. What’s more, core human rights due diligence principles, such as the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), further influence how businesses should navigate these risks.

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Another Resolution by DOJ Pursuant to its Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative Highlights Continued Efforts to Hold Companies Accountable for Ensuring Data are Secured

Health Care Law Brief

We previously wrote about the United States Department of Justice’s (“ DOJ ”) Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative (“ CCFI ”), which “aims to hold accountable entities or individuals that put U.S. To resolve these allegations, Jelly Bean and Spinks agreed to pay $293,771. FHKC shut down its website’s application portal shortly thereafter.

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What is a HIPAA Violation?

HIPAA Journal

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was introduced to simplify the administration of healthcare, eliminate wastage, prevent healthcare fraud, and ensure employees could maintain healthcare coverage between jobs. What is HIPAA and Who Does It Apply To? What is considered a HIPAA violation?

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Updated Compliance Tool for Developers of Mobile Health Apps

Hall Render

As payor coverage expands for certain telemedicine services and technology, app and digital health technology developers will need to do their due diligence in determining coverage and reimbursement under federal and state health care programs and be cognizant of any fraud and abuse laws that apply under the various programs.