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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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Compliance Checkup: Year End 2020 - No Looking Back
on December 29, 2020
Nicole Thorn outlines takeaways from 2020 that health care providers may want consider as priorities in 2021....
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Compliance Checkup & Corporate TIPS: OCR Agrees to $1.5 Million Settlement with Orthopedic Clinic for HIPAA Breach
on September 30, 2020
Data breaches have been top of mind for a while now, and their risk to the health care sector has never been higher. On September 21, 2020, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) settled with Athens Orthopedic Clinic PA (Athens) for $1.5 million for a cyber breach it self-reported back in 2016....
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Compliance Checkup: CARES Act Funding - Reporting Requirements Coming Soon
on August 4, 2020
On July 20, 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted an announcement about the forthcoming reporting requirements for providers who received CARES Act funding through a General or Targeted Distribution....