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Health Care
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Health Care
Compliance Checkup: Are You Ready for Price Transparency?
on November 19, 2019
Two new rules — one proposed and one final — were issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) last week that effectuate President Trump's promise to provide health care consumers with more transparency in their health care decisions. In doing so, the President's goal is to allow for more competition in the market among hospitals, group health insurance plans, and health insurance companies....
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Health Care
Industry:
Health Care
Compliance Checkup: Out With the Old, In With the New... Medicare ID Numbers
on October 29, 2019
If you have been working in health care long enough, you know the standard Medicare policy number, known as HICN by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), for billing purposes has traditionally been the beneficiary's social security number followed by an alpha character......
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Compliance Checkup: Record Number of Health Care Data Breaches Recorded by the Office for Civil Rights in July 2019
on October 8, 2019
As an industry, health care seems to lag behind other sectors when it comes to information technology (IT). This has not always been beneficial; however, in the case of data breach incidents, any delayed effects are welcome. It appears the time is up....
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Health Care and Cybersecurity & Data Privacy
Industries:
Technology and Health Care
Compliance Checkup: Part Two: Does Your Practice Need to Comply with the General Data Protection Regulation?
on September 24, 2019
Remember earlier this month when my colleague Craig Horbus gave us a primer on the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR? Read on for Part II on what GDPR requires and how to comply....
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Cybersecurity & Data Privacy and Health Care
Industries:
Technology and Health Care
Compliance Checkup: Part One: Does Your Practice Need to Comply with the General Data Protection Regulation?
on September 10, 2019
I'd like to introduce you to my colleague, Craig Horbus, a partner at Brouse McDowell. He's actually a superhero without a cape — he helps companies of all sizes and in all industries address data security issues....