Healthicity Blog

You might be using an outside billing company, a central business office or practice staff to provide medical billing services. And you might be feeling pretty great about the work they do.

Recently, a $3.5 Million HIPAA settlement was announced on HHS.gov, “Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) has agreed to pay $3.5 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

You’ve worked too hard to ruin everything by cutting corners. While it might not sound like much, conducting a risk assessment is essential for an effective compliance program, and in some cases, it’s required by law.

Just as we humans rely on our heart to keep ticking, any compliance program worth its salt relies on an effective audit plan to maintain organizational compliance.

Are you ready for the HCCA's Compliance Institute? This year it’s April 15-18 in Las Vegas and I could not be more excited. I mean, I could, but I don’t think Nevada is ready for that level of enthusiasm.

For fun, let’s take a short quiz. Would you say that the following scenarios would be coded as a new or established patient?

For the last couple months we've been busy preparing our annual survey report, The Compliance and Auditing Benchmark Report for 2018.

It’s been almost a year and many compliance officers are still trying to figure out how to make use of the OIG Resource Guide.