by Mary Pat Whaley | Feb 17, 2013 | Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Headlines, Medicare This Week
Mary Pat: Your business is called “Health Security Solutions.” People often confuse privacy with security. Can you clear up the confusion for us? Steve: The Privacy rules refer to the broad requirements to protect the confidentiality of Protected Health...
by Abraham Whaley | Feb 10, 2013 | Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, Electronic Medical Records, Finance, Headlines, Medicare & Reimbursement
If you read my alert from August or the followup article on Audit Red Flags to Avoid, you are aware that CMS hired an accounting firm, Figliozzi & Company, to audit the compliance of eligible providers and eligible hospitals that had already received payment under...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 28, 2010 | Medicare & Reimbursement, The Cohen Report (NCCI & RVUs)
NOTE: If you need the basics on RACs, click here for my article. From our friend Frank Cohen: Over the past year or so, I have been involved in conducting post RAC (and other) audit analyses to determine whether the RAC (or other auditing agency) was using...