Healthicity Blog

It’s not always easy to stay on top of all things auditing because of the evolutionary nature of coding and auditing.

1. Colorado Hospital Pays $111,400 for Failure to Terminate Former Employee’s Access to ePHI -

Chiropractic services are regular targets of audits by government agencies including Medicare, Medicaid, and the OIG.

1. United States Joins False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Wheeling Hospital, R & V Associates, and Ronald Violi Based on Improper Payments and Kickbacks to Physicians –

An infusion service is defined as the “administration of intravenous fluids and/or drugs over a period of time for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.”

The OIG’s most recently published report reveals its findings of overpayments associated with HBO (and they’re not talking about the cable channel).

As 2018 comes to an end, compliance professionals are gearing up for 2019 by reading up on rules and regulations, planning to conduct a risk assessment and putting their work plans together.

All year you’ve been watching Ada’s unfortunate luck unfold as she was poisoned by a frog, overdosed on spicy food, swooned and fell, and crafted herself into oblivion.