Healthicity Blog

Q1: What do you know about this new HIPAA Audit program?

CMS will be conducting Stage 2 HIPAA Privacy and Security Audits throughout the year, based on their new, recently published protocol.

You already know the importance of Risk Analysis for your organization: It’s a HIPAA and Meaningful Use necessity, and a smart way to protect valuable PHI from getting into the wrong hands.

As a Compliance Officer, you’re charged with the complicated task of creating and maintaining compliance. You manage a thousand moving parts, often while fighting a constant, uphill battle to prove the legitimacy of your relatively new, though crucial, position.

Recently, federal auditors reported that the University of Minnesota Medical Center needs to refund more than $3.2 million in estimated overpayments for services that were allegedly billed incorrectly to the Medicare program.

Two new CPT codes were approved in 2013, giving healthcare providers the opportunity to capture the full scope of their efforts while treating chronically ill patients. Specifically, patients with co-morbidities who frequently moved back and forth between their community and an acute care setting.

During our recent webinar, The Five Problem Areas in E/M Audits, many of you posted really great questions. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get to all of them live.

Chart audits are a mandatory part of maintaining compliance for your organization, but we all know that regular auditing is demanding. The cost and burden on administrators makes the process difficult.