Legal Compliance

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.

Is your practice suffering with ICD-10 or has it been a smooth transition? Take a quick five-question survey and share your experiences.

There are ways for physicians to avoid filing a report to the National Practitioner Databank (NPDB) when they are being sued for malpractice.

With a dearth of coders thanks to the ICD-10 transition, some practices find that training current staff is the best way to get good coders.

On Friday the 13th, a ruling against the FTC was a stroke of good luck for the rest of the healthcare industry, which is already overregulated.

Fall brings a new set of activities that may require new ICD-10 codes at your practice. Here's a list of 15 possible – and funny – autumn injuries.

The NCCPA recently proposed more CAQs for PAs in specialty areas of medicine and may make them mandatory. This is a bad idea, says one provider.

A recent ruling against a pharmaceutical company shows physicians how the False Claims Act can hurt them legally and financially.

Avoid problems with reimbursement through accurate and specific coding in ICD-10. Here are some tips to do that.

The big bang of ICD-10 has happened. Practices should focus on getting reimbursement from third-party payers and clearing up any issues.

Switching from ICD-9 to ICD-10 was predicted to be calamitous, especially for small practices. But, for many, it wasn't.