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Weekly Roundup – February 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today

Making Machine Learning Work With HIPAA. Andy Oram chatted with Abhi Sharma at Loyal about what it takes to make HIPAA-compliant chatbots. Read more… Retrieving Billions in Medicare Overpayments. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community.

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These are the compliance issues providers should be preparing for, post-PHE

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Without temporary OCR enforcement discretion to use certain platforms for the good faith provisions of telehealth services, there are HIPAA requirements applicable to the technology platforms/apps that may be used to provide telehealth services. Additionally, any reimbursement resulting from these claims could be considered an overpayment.

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Introduction to Telebehavioral Health

AIHC

Most private insurers and Medicaid cover telebehavioral health care, but check for reimbursement restrictions and obtain professional coding and billing guidance to avoid overpayment situations. Only Consider Using HIPAA-Compliant Technology The HIPAA Rules establish standards to protect patients’ protected health information.

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Navigating the Intersection of Payment Integrity and Provider Relations in Healthcare

Innovaare Compliance

Inovaare’s comprehensive suite of HIPAA-compliant software solutions features best-practice regulatory processes to help healthcare organizations sustain audit readiness, reduce non-compliance risks, and lower operating costs.

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Patient-Focused Elements of an Effective Healthcare Compliance Program

YouCompli

Among the compliance activities involved are making sure staff are educated on how to Protect patient confidentiality Return overpayments to patients Follow a compliance workplan for monitoring and auditing Document and benchmark audit data 6. Again, this element requires compliance officers to provide staff education and training.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

NATIONAL 382 rural hospitals cut chemotherapy, breakdown by state 1 year after Amazon-One Medical deal finalized: What’s happened since ACOs want increased participation of long-term and post-acute care providers ‘Behind the times’: DC tries to catch up with AI’s use in health care CMS finalizes DSH payment cuts for some safety-net hospitals: (..)

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

for physician referral scheme In Los Angeles, hospital CEO pay could be capped Kaiser Permanente ratings affirmed amid healthy financial profile Nurses vote ‘no confidence’ in California hospital administration, board Nursing facility, management company settle physician kickback allegations for $3.8M