Healthicity Blog

Anyone who’s ever watched an episode of Scrubs has seen residents step into the role of primary caregiver. Those of us who work in Healthcare know that T.V. is fictional and in no way accurately represents our real day-to-day in the industry.

I’ll admit, I’m a little biased when clients ask if they should outsource their risk analysis. Afterall, I'm a HIPAA consultant and expert with a practice that focuses on risk assessment and penetration testing. I make my living conducting risk analysis.

1. South Carolina Hospital to Pay $17 Million to Resolve False Claims Act and Stark Law Allegations -

You’re not alone. According to Pies Steel, a human resources professor at University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business, 95% of the population procrastinates and 20% are “chronic offenders.”

When it comes to compliance violations, incorrectly managing Business Associates is often the culprit behind larger compliance violations.

Lexington Medical Center in South Carolina recently settled for $17 million to resolve allegations that its incentives with physicians violated Stark and Anti-kickback law violations.

Annually, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publishes its Fee-For-Service (FFS) Improper Payment Report, a result of the accumulated totals of the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) audits.

1. Florida pain clinic to pay $7.4M for Medicare fraud - “A company that runs pain clinics in northeast Florida will pay the federal government $7.4 million