Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

COVID Regulations Impacted CMS issued several interim final rules during the PHE. In 2020, CMS revised the nursing home infection control regulations at 42 CFR § 483.80 The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886. The CMS Memo confirms that this testing regulation expires with the end of the PHE.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

"It’s critical for organizations to proactively comply with CCPA regulations, rather than face expensive legal battles," said Raj Sharman, professor of management science and systems at the University of Buffalo School of Management, in a statement. Sometimes failing to comply can carry a big price tag: The U.S.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 16, 2023

It collects and stores user data, including protected health information (PHI) , which makes it subject to HIPAA compliance rules and regulations. Google Analytics & HIPAA Compliance The first step toward using Google Analytics while remaining HIPAA compliant is using Google Tag Manager (GTM). × Find Out More! Please Wait.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

September 05, 2023 News Indonesia officially requires its healthcare facilities to implement EMRs The country enacted a Health Minister regulation on medical records in late August. Region Tag: ASIA Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Analytics Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Foster Swift

JANUARY 11, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued two highly-anticipated final rules (collectively, the “Final Rule”) to modernize and clarify the regulations that interpret the Physician Self-Referral Statute (“Stark”) and the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”).

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

When used appropriately, these agreements can streamline conflict resolution processes, but operators must tread carefully to ensure compliance with the regulations. The Arbitration Regulations revised the requirements for arbitration agreements when they are used by nursing homes to resolve disputes with their residents.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

Traditional CIOs must deal with their fears of giving up control and realize that they cannot regulate and control access, especially to data. Region Tag: Global Edition. David Chou serves as the CIO for a public academic health system.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

It is a violation of federal and state regulations for any persons, including facility staff, volunteers, visitors, family members or guardians, or another resident, to exploit or misappropriate a resident’s funds or personal property. Her bond was set at $26,000.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

The following is a guest article by Isaac Smith, Billing, Coding, and Reimbursement Specialist at Medcare MSO ASCs are types of medical facilities that are subject to stringent regulations. These laws regulate everything pertaining to ASCs, from their day-to-day operations to the manner in which they are compensated.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Regulations now require primary care doctors be notified if their patients have an ED visit or are admitted to a hospital. Patients love it and doctors are coming around on the idea that these messages can actually save them time since then they don’t have to play phone tag with the patients.

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Health Care Performance

JUNE 29, 2022

The new guidance for Phase 3 requirements includes the long-awaited F-Tag F895: Compliance and Ethics Programs. The CMS guidance also addresses other Phase 2 and Phase 3 provisions of the long-term care regulations. Arbitration requirements and guidance which went into effect September 16, 2019. WHAT ELSE IS IN THE GUIDANCE?

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

What You Should Know: New and more stringent regulations have increased documentation burden for long-term care (LTC) provider organizations, and this combined with other factors (COVID-19, staff turnover, increased LTC demand) has intensified clinician and nurse burnout in LTC.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

Food and Drug Administration regulations, which require mifepristone, one of the medications used in abortion, to be dispensed at a clinic, hospital or medical office. And abortion's price tag isn't always covered by insurance, which could put it out of reach financially. This is due in part to U.S.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

It is a violation of federal and state regulations for any persons, including facility staff, volunteers, visitors, family members or guardians, or another resident, to exploit or misappropriate a resident’s funds or personal property. Residents should be encouraged to not keep large sums of unsecured money in their rooms.

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Healthcare Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

Infection control, medication distribution and administration, pandemics, central-line insertion, patient- sensitive information , c onflict resolution —the volume of hospital policies and procedures grow with changes to CMS regulations and accrediting organization standards, evidence-based practice and new technology. StayAlert !

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

And given the fact that prescription drug prices continue to increase, the topic of drug price management is likely to continue to capture the attention of the media and policymakers at the state level, given the current lack of overriding federal regulation.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Lawsuits to enforce these regulations have hit many companies. Many of the early DIY tools omitted the clues that disabled visitors depend on—for instance using raw markup to make a phrase look like a heading when they should use an HTML tag for headings. ” (page 32 of the PDF). The tools are doing better, though.

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Dot Compliance

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Enterprise quality management software supports compliance with increasingly stringent regulations aimed at improving the quality and safety of drugs and devices. Do your research to determine the capabilities and overall value solutions providers can offer compared with their price tags.

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Medisys Compliance

AUGUST 23, 2022

Effective tagging and medical billing administration serve as a helpful strategic target for all the medical practitioners out there as the healthcare business is now evolving dramatically. The ideal option is to outsource medical billing services if you want to stop losing money from Payers.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 25, 2022

After receiving a request, an entity that is regulated by HIPAA has, absent an extension, 30 days to provide an individual or their representative with their records in a timely manner. Train all staff on HIPAA and privacy regulations. Ensure that they address timely access to medical records.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Today, the cost of a data breach comes with a hefty price tag – an average of $9.44 A lack of regulatory compliance, network and technical vulnerabilities, unencrypted information, unsecured mobile devices, and weak credentials all play a part in putting a healthcare organization at risk for a data breach. million in the U.S.

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Medisys Compliance

JANUARY 5, 2023

They will take over the most difficult aspect of your claims procedure and streamline the entire workflow to ensure timely submission of claims in accordance with the regulations of each payer. When you collaborate with a mental health billing partner, you’ll always get paid on time. Clean claims.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

What You Should Know: New and more stringent regulations have increased documentation burden for long-term care (LTC) provider organizations, and this combined with other factors (COVID-19, staff turnover, increased LTC demand) has intensified clinician and nurse burnout in LTC.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2022

The regulations and QSO Memos guidance do not apply to Texas at this time. Survey Guidance for Skilled Nursing Facilities – New F Tag 888. Attachment A introduces a new citation tag for skilled nursing providers, F Tag 888, regarding infection control under CFR §483.80(i). Currently Excluded State.

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 13, 2023

If you compare HIPAA Rules and Regulations to a building, patients’ protected health information (PHI) would be the foundation. For example, if a patient posted a family holiday picture and tagged you in the post, a response like “so glad we could get him home for the holidays” will likely earn you a HIPAA violation.

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Compliancy Group

JULY 29, 2022

For the 12th consecutive year, healthcare breaches had the highest price tag. This is especially true In highly regulated industries such as healthcare. Each year IBM works with Ponemon Institute to research breaches across several sectors of the economy. This is an increase of 9.4% from 2021 and an astronomical increase of 41.6%

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Skilled nursing facility staff vaccination rates under 100% of unexcepted staff constitute noncompliance under the regulations. F-888 is the citation tag that was created under 42 CFR Section 483.80(i), i), the regulation that details the requirements related to COVID-19 vaccination of facility staff. 42 CFR Section 483.80(i)

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

HIPAA regulations. When you automate your phone system, patients spend less time waiting on hold and playing phone tag. The layers of automation required depend on the number of steps, systems, and protocols that your staff, specifically, must navigate to handle patient calls, including: Complex operating procedures.

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Healthcare Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

The benefits of policy management software include efficient and effective ways to manage the policy life cycle throughout your organization, helping to ensure that all policies are up-to-date, consistent, and compliant with regulations. Robust Search Features: Add keywords and tag applicable regulatory and standard numbers to your policies.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 19, 2024

Healthcare regulations present another challenge. Different types of data are subject to different rules and regulations, such as retention mandates that require providers to store data for a certain period. Tagging can also accelerate the process of locating data that is relevant for AI training for a particular use case.

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Hall Render

MARCH 28, 2023

The end of the PHE has a significant impact on skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) as it ends the remaining regulatory blanket waivers, revisits resident Medicaid eligibility and changes many COVID regulations that were issued during the PHE. COVID Regulations and the PHE CMS issued several interim final rules during the PHE.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

Key issues facing the industry in 2019 and into the next few years range from regulation of dietary supplements and the role of CBD in self-care, the omni-channel consumer, ecommerce vs. bricks-and-mortar, trust, and wrestling with consumer privacy. Nishat noted that the “death of television” discussed in mass media is highly over-rated.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

All the relevant regulators like Dubai Health Authority (DHA), Dubai Healthcare City Authority and their key senior members, as well as the aforementioned key governmental and private stakeholders play a vital part in this collaborative effort of ensuring sufficient capacity and unified testing and treatment protocols.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

And so, I think it is not inevitable, but it is likely that a company operating in this space, which is very cutting-edge DTC, online-only telemedicine services, will at some point land under the microscope of a regulator, whether it’s through a subpoena or just an inquiry or a complaint. Maureen Stewart. Mark Josephs.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

John Berndt, SVP of Health North America, Valtech Also known as the Kennedy–Kassebaum Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) defines and regulates individuals’ medical records and other individually identifiable health information, collectively known as patient healthcare information (PHI).

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Similar to a URL for a web page, every resource has an own identification tag. Devices and apps can easily obtain necessary data through that tag without going through laborious data exchange procedures. A resource may contain text, metadata, or bundled groups of data that together make up clinical documentation.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2022

But consumer technology develops at a much quicker pace than medical and health technologies - robust regulation and evidence are essential to ensure safety, efficacy, and value but this takes time. Region Tag: EMEA. One of the many drivers of digital health transformation is the consumer technology boom.

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