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Being a compliance officer requires us to constantly open our eyes to new information.

In January of 2012, Collen Herren, former clinical nursing director for specialty clinics at Marshall Medical Center (Placerville, CA), filed a lawsuit (Case 2:12 -cv-00098-JAM-KJN) under the False Claims Act

For the first time in 25 years, on July 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), published the first major set of proposed changes to the requirements for participation for long-term care facilities.

Healthcare compliance is one of our favorite things to write, talk, or read about. We live for it. And we spend a lot of time searching the web for fantastic content and killer compliance resources.

Medical necessity matters. The concept of medical necessity (or lack thereof) is what drives much of the multi-million dollar whistleblower suits and healthcare provider settlements we see in the healthcare industry today. Corporate integrity agreements often spell out requirements placed on...

Last year two doctors in Long Island, Dr. Vikas Desai, and Dr. Robert Maccone, entered into separate civil settlement agreements where they agreed to pay the United States a total of $1,120,299 dollars to resolve allegations

Nothing makes employees cringe like employee training. Add the word “compliance” and you’ll have your staff running for the hills. Training brings to mind hours of monotone lectures, a total snoozefest where employees will have to fight to stay awake. Boring or not, training is a necessity...

I recently attended the 20th annual HCCA Compliance Institute conference. I attend every year, and look forward to it. As a compliance expert, I go for the people, the networking, but more than anything I go for the information.