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PPACA: The Fine Print Will Be in the Rules
Compliance officers could see their programs turned into financial footballs. Health care reform may seem like yesterday’s news. However, now is when the real work begins for many of the major players in the health care industry in the face…
Continue reading...Medical Boards Disciplining Fewer Doctors Who Commit Errors
24. May 2010
Stricter regulations can improve the declining rate of disciplinary actions, says advocacy group. As hospitals and health care facilities around the globe continue to worry about medical errors, a new study shows that state medical boards might share in the…
Continue reading...New to Compliance? The Line Forms Here…
17. May 2010
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Continue reading...Health Reform Law Offers Hospices a Mixed Bag
17. May 2010
$10M cut in Medicare reimbursements may trigger reduced services. Asbestosis Despite the hard-hitting $10 million decrease in Medicare reimbursements this year, hospice and palliative care facilities cling to the recently passed health care reform act for some hope. PPACA reduced…
Continue reading...AMA: Doctors Abandon Medicare System Out of Frustration
10. May 2010
A bad case of SGR-fatigue plagues many practices. With low reimbursement rates, exceptionally taxing amount of paperwork, and sky-high potential penalties, more physicians are choosing to bail out of the Medicare system. Beneficiaries already have trouble finding doctors, according to…
Continue reading...PPACA Creates New Role for IRS, New Compliance Concerns for Providers
3. May 2010
“Fine” for not carrying individual insurance could end up being record-keeping nightmare. Under the new health care reform law, the Internal Revenue Service appears to have a special role that will create new compliance requirements for patients, not providers or…
Continue reading...Impact of the New Health Care Reform Law Spares No One
3. May 2010
Payers and insurance companies are only a few of the organizations with new compliance demands. The new health care reform law may have a huge impact on how payers and insurers conduct compliance requirements for businesses, according to a new…
Continue reading...HHS OIG Recovers $4B in Penalties for Health Care Fraud
19. April 2010
Three-quarters of investigations in 2009 involved shams; OIG reveals investigation secrets. While many of us would prefer to quickly forget 2009—the HHS OIG had a pretty good year. The OIG walked away with $4 billion in its hands at the…
Continue reading...DEA Allows E-Prescribing of Controlled Substances Under New Regs
12. April 2010
Doing its part to hasten the EHR revolution, the Drug Enforcement Administration issued an interim final rule on March 31, 2010 revising its regs to allow pharmacies, hospitals and physicians to use electronic prescriptions for controlled substances, known as Schedule…
Continue reading...How the PPACA Affects Your Practice Now
12. April 2010
Last month, the president signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) into law to much fanfare. Although most of the law’s 2,390 pages were not specifically related to Medicare, some of the bill does pertain to Part B. Read on to…
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1. June 2010
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