MLN Matters Number: SE0801 Revised Related Change Request (CR) #: N/A Related CR Release Date: N/A Effective Date: N/A Related CR Transmittal #: N/A Implementation Date: N/A [The following is copied directly from this MLN Matters posting by CMS.] Note: This article was revised on November 17, 2015, to add a reference to MLN Matters® […]
AIS Publications – Aug 28, 2009. Health care organizations have more reason than ever to keep employees from snooping into patient records. New laws at the federal level, and in some states, make it clear that letting nosy employees slide is no longer an option. Click title to read more… The HITECH Act’s definition […]
HealthLeaders Media, August 26, 2009. It isn’t every day that rural hospital officials eagerly discuss their abysmal practice scores in crucial care areas like heart failure or hip and knee surgery. But Cleveland Regional Medical Center in Shelby, NC, and United Hospital Center in Clarksburg, WV, now wear their low rankings almost like war medals. […]
OIG Report on Non-Physicians Performing Medicare Physician Services Download the full OIG Report, HERE. (PDF Format, 40 pgs, 1,070 KB) The following is directly quoted from the report: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OBJECTIVES For days that Medicare allows more than 24 hours of services billed by a single physician: Identify the services physicians bill to Medicare but […]
Are you in the business of offering or maintaining personal health records? Does your company offer products or services that interact with personal health records – for example, an online weight tracking program that sends information to a personal health record or pulls information from it? If that describes your line of work – and […]
Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information Published by HHS in Federal Register on 08/24/09 Includes: 45 CFR Parts 160 and 164 RIN 0991–AB56 Human Services (HHS) is issuing this interim final rule with a request for comments to require notification of breaches of unsecured protected health information. Section 13402 of the Health Information Technology […]