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Is Your Urgent Care Clinic EMTALA-Compliant?
Practical EMTALA solutions to 2 tricky urgent care scenarios. Your facility makes the decision to set up an urgent care clinic to take some pressure off the ER and provide a place where patients can…
Continue reading...EMTALA Compliance: How to Handle Non-Emergent Care in the ER
Sunday, November 15, 2009
How does your hospital handle non-emergencies in the emergency room? EMTALA sets some neat little traps for unwary hospitals in this area. But with proper planning, you can be prepared for a range of situations in the ER…
Continue reading...OIG Dragnets of IDTFs and EMTALA Pressure Physicians
Monday, October 26, 2009
The OIG’s 2010 Work Plan is full of clear enforcement and compliance goals that will affect physicians. And then there are other issues the OIG will investigate that at first may not seem to have much to…
Continue reading...Do I Have To Be Concerned With EMTALA Compliance?
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Question: A patient comes to our medical office, presenting with inner ear pain and dizziness. He cannot pay his copay. Do we have to see this patient under EMTALA? Answer: If a patient cannot pay, a physician practice doesn’t have…
Continue reading...- Some Flowers & Some PHI
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- OIG Settlement Highlights Personal Accountability for Compliance Officers, CEOs
- Prepare for Increased Fraud Enforcement with Medicaid Compliance Plan
- HHS Issues New Interim Rule on HIPAA Penalties
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- Do You Have a “Direct Reporting Relationship” with Your Board?
- Feds Tell Employers to Give Young Adults Coverage
- How to Get Physician Buy-In on Compliance Programs
- United Settles with Physicians, Subscribers for $350M
- Should Health Care Organizations Equate Risk with Compliance?
- Wisconsin Passes Parity Law for Mentally Ill and Drug Abusers
- HHS Must Draft New Regs on Visitation, Advance Directives at Hospitals
- New York OMIG’s Game Plan: Follow the 1’s and 0’s
- New Health Care Reform Law Alters Stark “In-Office” Exception
- Get Ready for More Modifier 59 Scrutiny
Monday, November 30, 2009
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