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Compliance Checkup: DOJ Updates to Corporate Compliance Program to Impact Health Care Providers
on May 2, 2023
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently updated its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Program (ECCP) guidance with a focus on ensuring effective measures are in place to prevent and detect potential misconduct. The ECCP guidance outlines different aspects that prosecutors will consider when evaluating the effectiveness of a corporate compliance program....
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Health Care
Compliance Checkup: CMS Releases the Proposed 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
on July 20, 2021
On July 13, 2021 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). Pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), CMS is required to post its proposed rules and solicit public comments which in this case are due by 5 pm on September 13, 2021....
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Compliance Checkup: New Rule Pertaining to Information blocking and its Effect on Health Care Providers
on June 15, 2021
Have you reviewed your facility's access methods to patient information recently? If not, you may want to consider doing so because The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently implemented a new rule affecting the accessibility of health care information in the United States....
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Business Transactions & Corporate Counseling, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy and Health Care
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Technology, Health Care and Nurse Practitioners
Compliance Checkup & Corporate TIPS: Fifth Circuit Shines a Light on HIPAA "Encryption" and "Disclosure" Rules in M.D. Anderson Decision
on May 11, 2021
Earlier this year, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision vacating a $4.3 million penalty imposed on University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center by the U.S. Department of Human Services (HHS) for self-reported HIPAA violations, including violations of the Encryption and Disclosure Rules....
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Compliance Checkup: Takeaways from the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Final Rules
on April 13, 2021
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued final rules updating and revising the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute....
