The Compliance Insider 

Federal regulators plan to extend Stage 2 of theHITECH Act electronic health record incentive program one year, giving healthcare providers and EHR software vendors more time to comply with requirements that include... Continue Reading

Are you remembering to account for the disclosures of PHI? Even though this is a basic patient right under HIPAA, some healthcare providers are still not compliant with this part of the Privacy Rule. Under HIPAA... Continue Reading

What are you doing to train your staff on the new GHS standards? The December 1 deadline to train your staff in the new OSHA hazard communication standard has passed, and we hope you hope you have already introduced... Continue Reading

Experts say that when a person goes into cardiac arrest, normal heart function may be restored up to 60 percent of the time if the victim is treated promptly with an automated external defibrillator (AED). AEDs are... Continue Reading

A federal advisory panel will recommend that the Department of Health and Human Services take an incremental approach to implement a revised HIPAA Accounting of Disclosures rule. At its recent meeting, the... Continue Reading

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published updated beneficiary cost-sharing and premium requirements for those enrolled in Original Medicare during a calendar year (CY) 2014. Under... Continue Reading

Developing a disaster plan for your office is a must in today's world. If a natural disaster happened and your office was shut down and wiped out your records, would you know how to piece your office back together?... Continue Reading

Last week OSHA proposed a new rule that affects the way workplaces will report workplace injuries. It won't change the fact that you have to report injuries that occur on the job, but it could change the way you do... Continue Reading

There are many important elements to implementing an effective HIPAA Program, but none are more important than completing a security risk analysis. Conducting a risk analysis will give your practice an accurate and... Continue Reading

ICD-10 will be here in 2014. What are you doing to prepare for this massive change? ICD-10 will be here on October 1, 2014 and we will be going from 17,000 ICD-9 codes to 68,000 ICD-10CM codes. These new ICD-10CM... Continue Reading