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Will the Meaningful Use Attestation Date be extended?

Recently the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) asking to extend the October 1, 2014 date for new eligible professionals (EPs) to attest...

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month

For over ten years, October has been recognized in the United States as National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM). October is a month dedicated to doing our part to ensure the safety and security of information...

Reminder: Privacy and Oral Communications

Oral communications at your practice are extremely important but are often overlooked and forgotten. This can be a confusing issue and needs serious attention. The Privacy Rule applies to individually identifiable...

OSHA announces new requirements for reporting severe injuries

Late last week, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a final rule requiring employers to notify OSHA when an employee is killed on the job or suffers a...

Audit Discovers State Agency Made Incorrect EHR Incentive Payments

A State agency made incorrect EHR incentive payments in accordance with Federal and State Requirements. The incorrect Medicaid electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments were made to 20 hospitals totaling $4.4...

Placement of Biohazard Waste Bins

Sometimes there are safety issues that do not have an associated regulation. In these cases, you simply have to use common sense and your professional opinion. This question applies to that principle. Question: Do...

CMS rule allows flexibility in Certified EHR technology for 2014

Friday, August 29, 2014 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a final rule that allows health care providers more flexibility in how they use certified electronic health record technology...

HCP Management Tip of the Week: Manage your Training Assignments!

When you add new employees to your organization, they will automatically be assigned all of the training available. You must edit the assignments to meet the needs of your new employee. CME credit courses for...

Corporate Compliance / Fraud, Waste and Abuse Training

Occasionally, questions arise about annual compliance training requirements, specifically whether Fraud, Waste and Abuse training needs to occur annually if at all. For those organizations billing Medicare, the...

Psychiatrist Sentenced to Prison for His Role in Medicare Fraud Scheme

Monday, a Louisiana psychiatrist was sentenced to serve 86 months in prison for his role in a $258.5 million Medicare fraud scheme involving partial hospitalization psychiatric services. In addition, he was ordered...