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Mental health clinics rely on a variety of licensed and qualified personnel to provide and bill for appropriate services to an often-vulnerable patient population. Some of these professionals include psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, and social workers. Additionally, many mental health...

Human motivation is a complex issue. Many are motivated by altruistic values and beliefs. Others are motivated by financial rewards or public recognition. In truth, motivation is likely multi-factorial; no single incentive drives all behavior.

Key Data Points from HHS Office of Civil Rights Reports on HIPAA Breaches   In February 2023, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) submitted two reports to the U.S. Congress on HIPAA and Breaches (see: ...

In October of 2022, a healthcare company pleaded guilty to engaging with a competitor to allocate employee nurses and fix the wages of those nurses. The company will pay over $130,000 as part of its sentence.

At the end of January 2023, the White House announced it intends to end the public health emergency (PHE) declaration on May 11, 2023.

If you’ve been around the compliance block a time or two, you’ve heard various messages from enforcement agencies about their intentions to hold individuals accountable for their actions related to alleged corporate crime. It makes sense when you stop to think about it. Organizations don’t make...

Our recent webinar, “An Auditor’s Rockstar Guide to Radiation Oncology Coding,” brought up some great questions, so we answered them for you! 

It’s that wonderful time of year to pause and express thanks for all the good things in our lives. Let’s do the same thing in our professional lives, including finding ways to be thankful for our compliance programs.

As compliance professionals, we sometimes focus on what is going wrong. It’s only...