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Safeguarding Confidential Information is not just a HIPAA Obligation

Safeguarding Confidential Information is not just a HIPAA Obligation

Throughout your career you may be asked questions about your job duties and about the organization you work for. Think about conversations you may have outside the workplace such as a conversation over lunch with...

Tip of the Week

Tip of the Week

This week's article is about confidentiality and non disclosure agreements. Your HCP compliance Program includes a Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement. We thought it might be helpful to give you instructions...

OSHA Standards Require Study and Interpretation

OSHA Standards Require Study and Interpretation

Imagine you have a physician who does not want to use safety needles. He feels hypodermic needles work better with his patients. Is he allowed to use hypodermic needles? OSHA's standards require a tremendous amount...

Patient's Right of Access

Patient's Right of Access

This week we had a question submitted to us asking about the patient's right to access their medical records. A patient contacted their medical provider asking for a recording of a conversation that took place...

Healthcare ID Theft First Aid Kit

Healthcare ID Theft First Aid Kit

Taxpayer identity theft came to the forefront during the 2013 tax year filing season. Identity theft occurs when someone uses your personal information such as your name, Social Security number or other identifying...

Tip of the Week

Tip of the Week " Developing your Corporate Compliance / Fraud Waste & Abuse Program

As CMS is focusing on Fraud, Waste and Abuse so intensely, we recommend that you review, update and / or implement your Fraud, Waste and Abuse policies and procedures. Here are our suggestions: Take or review your...

CMS Fraud Prevention System Expected to Include Areas of Waste and Abuse

CMS Fraud Prevention System Expected to Include Areas of Waste and Abuse

Last week CMS announced in the second year of operations, CMS' Fraud Prevention System identified or prevented $210 million in improper fee-for-service Medicare payments, which more than doubled the previous year's...

What to do when letting an employee go

What to do when letting an employee go

I recently had a conversation with a gentleman who asked me if I have any advice for him on how he should handle "laying off" or "letting go" an employee. I remembered a two part articles series we published in our...

Tip of the Week

Tip of the Week " Summer is here, flowers are in bloom, and even the Forms section is growing!

Summer is officially here on the 21st, but we've been growing our repository of compliance information for you all Spring! We are constantly adding new information to your Forms and Reference Guides. For example:...

Weekly Tip

Weekly Tip " Breach

What is a Breach? By definition a breach is the acquisition, access use or disclosure of protected health information (PHI) in a manner not permitted, and compromises the security of the protected health...