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Nothing makes employees cringe like employee training. Add the word “compliance” and you’ll have your staff running for the hills. Training brings to mind hours of monotone lectures, a total snoozefest where employees will have to fight to stay awake. Boring or not, training is a necessity...

Welcome back to our HIPAA Q&A series, where you can get answers to your most pertinent HIPAA questions.

I recently attended the 20th annual HCCA Compliance Institute conference. I attend every year, and look forward to it. As a compliance expert, I go for the people, the networking, but more than anything I go for the information.

In our recent HIPAA webinar, HIPAA Compliance Essentials, I talked about navigating the muddy waters of HIPAA Security and Privacy rules.

Employee onboarding is the best way to get the most out of your employees as quickly as possible.

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

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.