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What is Healthcare Compliance Ethics?

MedTrainer

In this blog, we’ll discuss how compliance came into being and why ethics are closely monitored by federal, state, and local governments. Healthcare compliance ethics are enforced by a combination of organizations, government agencies, and individuals. What is Healthcare Compliance Ethics? Who Enforces Healthcare Compliance Ethics?

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Retail Clinics’ Growing Role in Health Care and Prescription Drug Sales

Jane Sarashon

As patients continue to morph into health consumers, facing rising out-of-pocket costs for deductibles and coinsurance shares, people are healthcare payers alongside their employers and government sponsors for insurance. For context, check out the third chart I’m sharing here from a recent survey into U.S.

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Our Nursing Home Industry – A National Scandal

HIT Consultant

It has led me to found Tapestry Health, a multispecialty medical practice that focuses on providing medical infrastructure in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), as well as Project Patient Care, a patient advocacy organization based in Chicago, Illinois. Why should the government be in the job of making nursing homes better?

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Massachusetts DPH Delays Enforcement Penalties for State Surprise Billing Law

Healthcare Law Today

The federal government promulgated the No Surprises Act, which we discussed in prior blog posts here and here. This is likely to allow DPH time to take in questions and recommendations from provider, plan and patient advocacy constituencies. Massachusetts similarly issued new requirements for providers under M.G.L.

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CMS Finalizes Major Changes to Hospital Price Transparency Rule

Hall Render

CMS is also updating its monitoring and enforcement process as part of an ongoing increase in government oversight of hospital price transparency compliance. Hospitals should begin updating files now in preparation for the January 1, 2024, and July 1, 2024, effective dates that apply to most of the new requirements.

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For Your Information: Government Response to Long COVID

Total Medical Compliance Resources

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Makes Progress in the Whole-of-Government Response to Long COVID U.S. The whole-of-government response by the Biden-Harris administration this past year has made tremendous progress in the fight against Long COVID, but our work is not yet done. Agencies across the U.S.

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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.