Healthicity Blog

Recently, at the Health Care Compliance Association’s 28th Annual Compliance Institute, Robert K. DeConti, Chief Counsel to the HHS Inspector General provided one of the keynote addresses. He used the opportunity to tell a story of a hero’s journey. The hero in the story is a compliance officer...

“Providing appropriate education and training is a vital component of an effective compliance program.” 

Picture this: you design and execute what seems like the perfect compliance program. 

It’s Springtime. The bees are buzzing and flowers blooming. It is also the time of year when coders, auditors, and compliance professionals are out in full force, learning all they can…at two of the industry’s main event. 

Medical record addendums, amendments, corrections, and late entries.

March was a busy month for new additions to the OIG’s Work Plan. Some of the items fit nicely into two broad categories which we’ve grouped together and summarized below. The selected items relate to (1) nursing homes and (2) medications.

2024 brought a lot of changes to the medical coding and reimbursement world. In January, we highlighted some of the changes in our New Year, New Coding Changes webinar.

Medicare covers medical nutrition therapy (MNT) services, but only under certain circumstances.