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HIPAA fines have been known to decimate an organization's finances. Just this month, MD Anderson was slammed with a devastating $4.3 million fine for violating the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules by failing to encrypt many of its devices. 

The OIG continues its voice of concern over opioid overutilization and misuse in the context of Medicare and Medicaid.

Wait! Don’t open that bottle of champagne just yet! You submitted your MIPS but it looks like you might not be done with 2017, after all.

Michael Warner, an Osteopathic physician, board certified in family medicine, turned patients’ rights advocate has a lot say about a patient’s rights to access.

Over 1,000 coding, auditing, compliance and healthcare executives contributed to our 2018 Compliance and Auditing Benchmark report.

In this episode of Compliance Conversations, I sat down with Senior Consultant, Brenden O’Neil, who works in Intermountain’s professional coding and reimbursement department. O’Neil and I had a fascinating discussion on CPT codes and the complicated gray area of coding a laminectomy.

1. Missouri Hospitals to pay U.S. $34m to settle alleged false claims: Two Southwest Missouri health care providers have agreed to pay the United States $34,000,000 to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring...

“…let me be clear: healthcare fraud is a priority for the Department of Justice,” is how Kenneth Blanco, acting Assistant Attorney General of the DOJ’s Criminal Division, began his speech on May 18, 2017, at the Institute on Health Care Fraud of the American Bar Association.