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Are you prepared for a Meaningful Use Audit?

CMS and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) have taken steps to audit how providers are meeting meaningful use requirements. Approximately 5 to 10 percent of all meaningful use participants are being audited;...

Two Important OSHA Reminders

As of January 1, 2015 employers covered by federal OSHA law and regulations are now required to report work-related fatalities within 8 hours and work-related in-patient hospitalizations, amputations and losses of an...

Cover Your Attestation Part 3: Monitoring, Reporting and Record Retention

In this concluding part of our Cover Your Attestation article series, we will discuss Medicare's requirements for plan sponsors to monitor its first tier, downstream and related entities; report detected...

Security Risk Analysis is important for HIPAA and Meaningful Use

Conducting and reviewing a security risk analysis (SRA) is perhaps one of the most important HIPAA and Meaningful Use requirements your organization will undertake. A SRA is an ongoing process of continual...

Medical Assistant Credentialing Requirements for Your Client Practices

Join HCP'sEric Christensen for aNSCHBC hosted webinar onMarch 5th at 1:30pm (EST) Learn the Medical Assistant Credentialing requirements and how they apply to your client practices. Tools and solutions will be shared...

Security Risk Analysis 101 " What you need to know to protect your practice

Join HCP's Eric Christensen for an AAOE hosted webinar on March 12th at 12:00pm (EST) Every healthcare organization, which maintains Protected Health Information (PHI), must be able to demonstrate that they have...

Breach Notification Requirements " Questions and Answers

The deadline for submitting notice of a breach affecting fewer than 500 individuals is less than one month away. If a breach of unsecured protected health information affects fewer than 500 individuals, a covered...

ONC releases Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap...

Timeline for shifting Medicare reimbursements from volume to value

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell announced measurable goals and a timeline to move the Medicare program towards paring providers based on the quality of care they give patients, instead of the...

Medical Assistant Credentialing is more than Meaningful Use

We have been asked some questions about Medical Assistant Credentialing lately and rightfully so. With Meaningful Use, audits, attestation, and the constant changes in healthcare; questions about Medical Assistant...