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In the past few years there has been a steady increase in HIPAA violations surrounding privacy and security, many as a result of the HIPAA Omnibus rule that took effect in 2013.

The OIG’s annual Work Plan is an important asset for optimizing your organization’s compliance and auditing efforts because it allows you to identify possible compliance risks. In reviewing the 2016 OIG Work Plan, there are a total of 25 projects for audit under the OIG audit umbrella: three new...

Providers have long struggled to find the most efficient way to take, keep, and share important patient records. Before technology gave us the digital age and electronic file sharing, healthcare staff spent hours tracking down charts or attempting to decode terrible handwriting.

The OIG published its Work Plan for 2016 on November 2, 2015. The annually published plan details the OIG’s audit enforcement priorities for 2016. The Plan is useful for healthcare providers as it allows you to identify potential compliance risks and fine-tune your current compliance and auditing...

Risk analysis is the cornerstone of HIPAA compliance because it allows providers to safeguard against vulnerabilities to prevent data breaches or other serious security events. Performing risk analysis provides better security for patient health data.

In order to thoroughly scrutinize an audit, it’s important to understand who requested the audit, why they requested it, and what will be audited in the first place.

Every healthcare organization is faced with the challenge of improving their auditing efforts to meet compliance requirements. Arming yourself with the right information can vastly improve the way your organization approaches Evaluation & Management Audits (E/M) audits.

Tuomey, a community-based hospital in South Carolina, and the US government, recently resolved a False Claims Act judgement that resulted in a whopping $72 million dollar settlement.

It all started in 2005 when a physician at Tuomey decided to blow the whistle.