Legal Compliance

Here are some resolutions practices can make to commit to and execute upon a strategic compliance plan in 2016.

A guide to helping physicians better understand the process of Medicare-based reimbursement for PAs. What do you have to know?

A recent rule on the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and an article on mHealth show why it's important to stay on top of HIPAA and mental health.

With tax day coming up, here is a final look at tax-related exposures and scams that could harm physicians financially and legally.

The OCR is doing more HIPAA audits this year, and you need to be ready. Here’s how to do your own internal audit.

Common asset protection mistakes plague medical professionals, such as do it yourself strategies that lack any real defensive basis in the law.

With the new rules around the confidentiality of substance abuse records circulated this month, physicians need to update policies and procedures.

If your practice hasn't already, make sure to hire an outside auditing firm to review your billing records for possible overpayments.

New Jersey is already a primary-care physician shortage area. A new state plan makes the problem worse by giving state employees special status.

Recent guidance from the U.S. Department of Justice can help structure compliance programs in relation to HIPAA and cybersecurity.

Looking to get those administrative burdens off your plate? Before you sell to a non-hospital entity be leery of these compliance risks.

Want to avoid seeing your practice getting an audit from OCR? Here are six simple steps you can improve data security.

The latest guidance from the FDA in relation to cybersecurity vulnerabilities is something that physicians and patients need to know.

Many practices fail to invest in insurance for the loss of an important employee or covering their business from disability

The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System will go into effect in about a year. Here is what you have to know.

Meaningful use is not dead, as some have been suggesting. However, it is nearing its end and that fact has many physicians excited.

Young doctors are eager to start their career. However, don’t just sign your offer contract without taking these pieces of advice into account.

The advance of tech-based clinical decision support tools are going to help - not replace - physicians and evidence-based medicine, going forward.

Once they understand the full meaning of the law, a lot of the negative connotations healthcare providers have on HIPAA can be dispelled.

Phase 2 HIPAA audits are coming up soon. Here are five tips on how they differ from Phase 1 and what you should know.

Insurance plans are using the audit process to recoup payments for services which were preauthorized, based on charting. What should practices know?

Just because “nothing has changed,” doesn’t mean annual HR and compliance training should be avoided. Training can be easily forgotten.

Several six-figure HIPAA settlements were levied against healthcare organizations this year. Here are the top HIPAA incidents of 2015.

‘Tis the season! Cartoonist Jon Carter reveals that a few Christmas and holiday characters and traditions are just well-disguised ICD-10 codes.

For many physicians like Theo Felts, a family practitioner in Overland, Kan., ICD-10 has been no sweat at all. In this Q&A, he discusses the transition.