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The Role of Compliance Officers in Healthcare Organizations: Challenges and Responsibilities

American Medical Compliance

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

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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

Health Populi

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.

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Home Health PPS Final Rule for CY 2024: CMS Steps Back from the Brink

Hall Render

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.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

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.