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 […]