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Important Resources to Ensure Medicare Compliance

Compliancy Group

Compliance Program A comprehensive way to avoid Medicare exclusion is to develop an organization-wide compliance program, one of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requirements. For example, a risk assessment can shed light on conditions that make fraud, waste, and abuse most likely to occur.

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Fertility Centers of Illinois Proposes $450,000 Settlement to Resolve Data Breach Lawsuit

HIPAA Journal

Also, the breach notification letters stated, in bold and underlined text, that electronic medical records had not been accessed when the next paragraph made it clear that the information contained in medical records had in fact been accessed.

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Importance of Regulatory Compliance in Healthcare

Compliancy Group

Insurance carriers, cloud service providers, pharmacies, medical equipment manufacturers, and other organizations in this industry must comply with various health and safety regulations. It also reduces waste, fraud, and abuse that threaten the efficiency of healthcare delivery and services. name, phone number).

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Webinar Recap: Elevate Your Referring and Ordering Physician Monitoring

Provider Trust

To eliminate fraud in your health ecosystem, you must stay compliant with federal and state requirements for referring and ordering physicians. While your electronic medical record (EMR) will have some data relating to practitioners, these systems can become out-of-date quickly if not regularly maintained and updated.

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Part 3: Audit Documentation to Avoid Potential Appeal Consequences

AIHC

Due to the huge volume of claims payers receive to process, deny and pay, they have implemented various methods to track providers to detect potential waste, fraud and/or abuse. It can result in a situation where insurance opens an investigation or decides to initiate periodic audits on your claims and records. They can, sometimes!

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2024 Final Rule: CMS Announces More Changes to Medicare Advantage but Declines to Reform the “60 Day Rule”

Health Care Law Brief

On April 5, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released the 2024 Medicare Advantage and Prescription Drug Benefit Programs Final Rule (“Final Rule”), which will be codified at 42 C.F.R. 405.986) or “reliable evidence” of fraud or “similar fault” (as defined in 42 C.F.R. Parts 417, 422, 423, 455, and 460.

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Private Equity and Digital Health in 2023: Policy Updates and Trends to Watch

Healthcare Law Blog

If finalized, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Proposed Rule on Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes will require payers to participate in electronic payer-to-payer data exchange and implement automated prior authorization processes.