Healthicity
1. Malware Attack Causes Breach of 134,512 Patient Records – “A malware attack on St. Peter’s Surgery and Endoscopy Center in New York potentially gave hackers access to 134,512 patient records, which makes it the second-largest breach this year.
CJ Wolf
Rebecca Latchis landed in healthcare compliance after a HIPAA project in law school guided her to a new path.
Healthicity
1. Doctor Sentenced for Healthcare Fraud, Accepting Kickbacks to Prescribe Highly Addictive Version of Fentanyl –
CJ Wolf
What do you do when you’re running an exclusion check on an employee or vendor and you receive a positive match? Does a positive match automatically mean that person can’t work for you?
CJ Wolf
The Vermont hospital, Brattleboro Memorial, recently paid $1.6 million to the U.S. and State of Vermont to resolve allegations of false claims.
Stephani Scott
EXAMPLES OF MODIFIER 59 ERRORS
Your organization is losing money. The OIG HHS reported that nearly 42% of Medicare claims for E/M services are incorrectly coded resulting in $6.7 billion in overpayments.
Shelly L. Kubacki
Most coders are familiar with the general rule of New vs. Established Patient for professional billing.
CJ Wolf
A few weeks ago, we presented a webinar on the impact of the 60-day overpayment rule since its release two years ago. We had so many questions at the end of the webinar, we couldn’t get to all of them.
