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Emergency Preparedness Policy Changes Proposed by CMS

Emergency Preparedness Policy Changes Proposed by CMS The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule regarding their continuing efforts to reduce regulatory burden. As part of...

OSHA Aims to Better Protect Personal Information

OSHA Aims to Better Protect Personal Information The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently announced plans to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to...

HIPAA Privacy Rule " Understanding Health Oversight Disclosures

HIPAA Privacy Rule Understanding Health Oversight Disclosures At Healthcare Compliance Pros, we occasionally receive questions about disclosures for health oversight purposes. Health oversight can include...

What You Need to Know about Disaster Recovery Plans

What You Need to Know about Disaster Recovery Plans Your region will be prone to some type of natural disaster. Some regions are known to have intersecting risks of severe environmental conditions such as fires,...

Avoiding Scammers Lurking on Social Media Platforms

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently reported that scammers were fraudulently collecting sensitive information and stealing donations by creating and using fake social media platforms, such as Facebook,...

Why You Need to Host Quarterly Corporate Compliance Committee Meetings

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) highly encourage every healthcare organization to establish a compliance committee that advises your Compliance Officer...

MyHealthEData Advances with CMS's "Patients Over Paperwork" Initiatives

Recently on August 2nd, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized policies to advance with the MyHealthEData initiative and the CMS Patients Over Paperwork Initiative. The CMS updated...

Understanding the Importance of Medical Decision Making

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have been voicing their concerns and seeking public comments regarding the current evaluation and management (E/M) documentation guidelines. CMS understands that...

Instagram and Healthcare

What about Instagram? Instagram is one of the fastest-growing social media platforms, it is estimated that in the United States alone by 2019 there will be an estimated 111 million active users. Of these users,...

OSHA Hopes to Better Protect Personally Identifiable Information

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently announces plans to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to better protect personally identifiable information or...