Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As a result, there is no protection or recourse if de-identified data is re-identified by a third party that is not a HIPAA-defined Covered Entity and then used for nefarious purposes such as identity theft or healthcare fraud.

HIPAA 56

HIPAA Patient Advocacy Fraud Health Insurance 56

American Medical Compliance

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This includes monitoring clinical practices and addressing issues that may compromise patient safety. Ethical Conduct Upholding ethical conduct is paramount.

Compliance Officers 102

Compliance Officers Compliance Patient Advocacy Regulatory Compliance 102

Hall Render

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The issue of agencies “strategically” choosing patients to maximize profitability came up in other comments. One commenter, from a patient advocacy group, noted that home health had become “big business” and that agencies focus on profits for shareholders, not patient care.

Medicare 40

Medicare Medicare Payment Systems Medicaid 40

Kaiser Health News

JULY 24, 2024

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent a letter July 8 to CMS questioning how federal regulators verify incomes for those who get subsidies and what enforcement efforts are underway related to potential ACA subsidy fraud. “The bottom line is to stop fraud and help the consumer,” she said.

ACA 132

ACA Health Insurance Patient Advocacy Fraud 132

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Fraud and abuse, waste between $59 bn and $84 bn; and, Administrative complexity, wasting about $266 bn each year. On the consumer and patient side, the AARP, patient advocacy groups, and increasingly visible and assertive patient social networks are more in the mix on Capitol Hill than they were a decade ago.

Prescription Drug Pricing 108

Prescription Drug Pricing Medicare Medicare ACA 108

Hall Render

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Dunleavy adds $9M to budget to address food stamp, Medicaid backlog New study provides snapshot of increase in maternal deaths in Alaska Mental Health Trust Grants $1.6M grant to improve early cognitive decline detection via EHRs How Mass.

Nursing Homes 40

Nursing Homes COVID-19 Nurses Hospitals 40

Hall Render

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

fraud scheme Banner names Seattle physician-scientist to C-suite role Bill would require Arizona hospitals to ask about immigration status Phoenix Children’s receives $2.25 Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority chooses new chief executive ARIZONA Arizona couple pleads guilty to $1.2B The university says no. area clinics, eyes more D.C.

Nurses 40

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