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In an effort to always provide useful information to our readers, we’ve compiled this blog post of 7 of our favorite posts from ProviderTrust’s resource center. It’s important to us that we’re constantly giving you all new perspectives, interesting new voices and useful industry knowledge that...

Each year, the HHS OIG publishes a work plan which highlights areas they will focus their auditing and investigative resources upon. Some of the projects are continuations from the prior year’s work plan while some are new or revised.

In this ICD-10 cartoon suggested by Joan Weeks-Dolan, Ada goes to the beach with her best friend Rhonda. Ada and Rhonda are having the time of their lives, splashing in the water, cruising on a jetski, enjoying the sun, until, well, just take a look for yourself...

1. East Tennessee pharmacist indicted on healthcare fraud charges - “A Claiborne County grand jury indicted a New Tazewell pharmacist for healthcare fraud charges in October. Joseph “Jess” Collins, 56, of Middlesboro, Ky., is charged with TennCare fraud, insurance fraud and computer crimes. Each...

For calendar year 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have finalized updated payment rates and policy changes in the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System.

Most doctors read medical journals to stay abreast of the most current treatment options or cutting edge research about advancements in clinical care. And more and more physicians are seeing articles in their medical journals about compliance, fraud and abuse.

In this episode of Compliance Conversations, Cj Wolf sits down with Security and Privacy expert, Steve Spearman, to chat about ways healthcare practices can protect themselves from security and privacy threats.

One of the very first HIPAA Security regulations is, “Assigned Security Responsibility” 164.308(a)(2). This regulation requires every Business Associate and every covered entity to have a designated HIPAA Security Officer.