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Two Rural Hospitals Say Award Doesn't Matter in Pay for Performance Success

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. […]

Prevalence and Qualifications of Non-Physicians Who Performed Medicare Physician Services

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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 […]

FTC Final Breach Notification Form

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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

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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 […]

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