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Two Hospitals Pay $8.37M to Settle Case About Psych Certifications, Treatment Plans
In separate settlements with the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG), two Massachusetts hospitals in the same family have agreed to pay a total of...
Health Care Cybersecurity Checklist for 2021
Experts interviewed by RPP recommended a variety of strategies to stay ahead of evolving security threats this year, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic winds down...
Outpatient Therapy Faces Payment Cuts in 2021, Audits Are Underway
In a double whammy, outpatient therapy providers are facing a 10% payment cut next year and audits by Medicare administrative contractors (MACs) have resumed even...
As Animal Research FOIA Requests Rise, OLAW Advises Careful Approach
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests submitted to the NIH Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) have snowballed in recent years, and research institutions submitting...
NSF Misconduct Findings Carry Training, Other Requirements
During the second half of the previous fiscal year (FY), the National Science Foundation (NSF) disagreed with its Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) recommendation to...
Palomar Health Settles CMP Case on Intensive Outpatient Psych Services
In another multimillion-dollar behavioral health care case, Palomar Health in California agreed to pay $3.084 million in a civil monetary penalty (CMP) settlement about billing...
Pivotal role of compliance education and training in skilled nursing facilities
The quality of care in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) has been a long-standing issue and often the subject of regulatory enforcement and investigation. Many factors...
Remote working: How to work and manage for success
By now, many of us have been working remotely for nearly a year after being catapulted into the new world following the rise of COVID-19...
Drug diversion and COVID-19
Drug diversion didn’t disappear when COVID-19 patients arrived at your hospital in 2020. Many changes associated with managing the COVID-19 pandemic in hospitals may in...
CMS to Take Back Money It Returned Under Site-Neutral Payment Policy
CMS is taking back money from hospitals for outpatient clinic visits provided in 2019 at excepted off-campus provider-based departments (PBDs) after returning the money when...