The Compliance Insider 

A Two-Part Series on Attestation Requirements and Training. In addition to Meaningful Use Attestation requirements, many insurance companies are asking for Annual Compliance Attestation for organizations to validate... Continue Reading

Recently a question was asked about providing a patient medical record in electronic format: If you store patient information in your systems electronically, should a copy of the medical record be provided to the... Continue Reading

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the bidding timeline for Round 2 Recompete and the national mail-order recompete of the Medicare Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and... Continue Reading

Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued the Federal IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020. The Strategic Plan is currently... Continue Reading

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavennar recently announced new rules that strengthen oversight of Medicare providers. The new safeguards are designed to prevent physicians... Continue Reading

A data brief released by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) revealed the top reasons for EHR adoption. The need to share patient information with other providers and the use of financial... Continue Reading

After last week's post regarding the Credentialed Medical Assistant requirement under Meaningful Use, we were asked the following question: If we are not attesting to Stage 2 until next year, when should... Continue Reading

Since the HIPAA Omnibus Rule came out last year, there has been much discussion about the relationship and responsibility of each party between covered entities and business associates. Due to this, we have recently... Continue Reading

In October, we announced our new Medical Assistant Credentialing module. This module is available for the purpose of helping medical assistants and other health care professionals who are not credentialed, to meet... Continue Reading

For many of us in the United States, the holidays kick off this week with Thanksgiving. Each year on the fourth Thursday in November, we gather for a day of giving thanks, family, feasting, and football. Thanksgiving... Continue Reading