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Telehealth updates: 2022 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule and ongoing enforcement
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought considerable transformation within the healthcare industry as well as uncertainty. Overnight, the pandemic elevated telehealth from a highly specialized and...
In Plea, UPMC Hacker Sentenced to Seven Years for Conspiracy, Identity Theft
A Pennsylvania man who hacked the personnel records of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and dangled personally identifiable information (PII) for sale on...
How to successfully manage ungoverned data for risk mitigation
Are we currently experiencing a data explosion, as many pundits claim? If the general volume of data is truly exploding, it is the longest and...
Hospital Pays $4.5M to Settle CSA Case; Two Nurses Died From Overdoses
The deaths of two hospital nurses from overdoses of drugs allegedly diverted from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) played a part in...
Ready, set, go—for 2022 Stark group practice compliance!
It is time for group practices to finalize revisions, if any, to compensation for 2022. Almost one year after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
OIG focusing on emergency department physician evaluation and management services
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducts audits every year to ensure proper federal healthcare program payments are...
HC3 Warns of LockBit Ransomware Threat as Affiliates Ramp Up Attacks
The HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) is warning of a rising threat from LockBit, a two-year-old ransomware variant that in June released a...
Improve member experience with real-time benefit tools and drug price transparency
With nearly half of all Americans using prescription drugs[1] and drug costs rising at a rate exceeding national inflation,[2] vulnerable Americans are made more vulnerable...
Compliance with gifts to beneficiaries
As we enter the season of gift-giving, it is important to remember that the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has been providing healthcare organizations with...
Training to-dos in 2022
Welcome to the new year! Hopefully 2021 was good to you and yours, and you are ready for a new year with new or updated...
