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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

The long days of reviewing stacks of paperwork on your desk are finally over. But, spreadsheet tools like Microsoft Excel are terrible for healthcare.