Healthicity Blog

Can you believe we’re heading into the second half of 2023? This year is moving faster than you can say “HIPAA.”

Compliance professionals in the nursing home sector are well aware of the many ways government agencies survey, audit, and enforce regulatory compliance. Nursing homes have seen significant enforcement over the last few years, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector...

Let’s take a look at the areas on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) radar in May 2023.

AAPC’s 2023 HEALTHCON at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville, Tennessee brought together coders, billers, auditors, compliance professionals, vendors, and many others.

Healthicity received so many great Modifier 25 questions during our recent webinar! They all had slight variations in the details, but most of the questions asked fit into five categories. CJ Wolf, MD, organized his responses below by those five categories.

Depression and psychiatric conditions are relatively common in the elderly and nursing home residents. Effective treatments for these conditions can include medications, as well as psychotherapy. However, compliance professionals need to be aware of proper medical necessity, coding, and...

If you’re like me, you were in hog heaven at the HCCA’s Compliance Institute in Anaheim. It was so nice catching up with friends and colleagues while meeting and making new friends too.

The OIG added three items to their Work Plan in April 2023 – let's take a look at the areas on their radar.