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Auditing for critical care is confusing and takes some serious detective skills. Sherlock anyone?

I have over 30 years’ experience in the healthcare industry. During that time, I’ve experienced workplace stress, boredom, frustration and a whole host of other challenges.

For years, the OIG has been performing Hospital Compliance Reviews that are essentially data-driven billing analyses of inpatient and outpatient reimbursement.

In this episode of compliance conversations, I sat down with Stephani Scott, VP of Audit Services for Healthicity, to chat about her twenty years of experience and pick her brain on important auditing issues.

1. Laboratory and Owner of Lab Management Services Company to Pay $3.77 Million to Resolve Kickback and Medical Necessity Claims –

In this edition of the Misadventures of Ada, Ada takes a trip to space with her pal, Sully, in a space shuttle.

When most of us hear about OCR enforcement we immediately think about HIPAA, and rightfully so. There’s no doubt that HIPAA has definitely been a big enforcement area for OCR, but remember that OCR stands for the “Office for Civil Rights” and they oversee other areas of enforcement as well.

As a compliance officer working in the healthcare industry, I’ve heard it all. I’ve been given great compliance advice from wonderful mentors and supervisors.