Legal Compliance

While EHRs are important to analyze in any merger, don't forget to assess and formulate a strategy for your compliance technology as well.

With the increased buzz around the direct primary care model, here's what you need to know about the private healthcare transition.

It's common knowledge a more engaged patient is a more compliant patient. So why can't medicine bridge the digital divide to connect with patients?

It's time to "bridge the gap" with patients between patient visits. Here's how technology is helping one practice do it.

Are your patients relying too much on inaccurate information from Dr. Google? Here are some resources to steer them in a better direction.

Court determines that an illegal referral can exist even if a physician plays no role in determining what provider a patient obtains services from.

CMS guidance on the 60-day rule can be confusing. Here are some answers to common questions physicians and managers have regarding compliance.

Outside of an Obamacare repeal, it is nearly certain that mandatory requirements of compliance programs are here to stay. Here's how to prepare.

They did what?! Eleven costly mistakes healthcare providers have made when dealing with confidential patient information.

HIPAA "willful neglect" violations can cost medical practices hundreds of thousands of dollars. Here's how to prevent them from occurring at your practice.

What is a provider supposed to do to ensure HIPAA compliance with copying charges when a request for medical records is made? It’s not always easy.

Every medical practice should have a compliance officer. Here are 15 tasks to assign this important individual.

Information requests consume significant resources and represent a real area of risk for medical practices. Here are the top five actions you should take.

I always seek to provide a therapeutic interaction. However, I often seek it in the certainty of medical knowledge and behind the veneer of science.

Assessing your medical practice for risks and determining the likelihood and severity of impact will help you determine the most important areas to focus on.

Although healthcare is riddled with potential legal issues, there are several key laws that every physician should understand. Here are four of them.

Five recommendations to help ensure your medical practice has clear, consistent staff benefit and compensation policies that comply with state law.

If your practice hasn't already initiated a compliance program, here are four ways to begin.

In order to get patients the care they need when they need it, consider a risk-stratified care management system tied to point of care registries.

The HIPAA audit program under the Office for Civil Rights is expanding and changing. Is your practice prepared?

What you communicate to patients should also consider how you reach them. And with the variety of messaging available, there is also varying patient preference.

In the outpatient setting, physicians should never assign a diagnosis unless that diagnosis has been confirmed by diagnostic testing, or is otherwise certain.

ACOs enable collaboration between hospitals and physicians because of protections provided under the healthcare reform law.

Every investment or venture into which a physician enters must be carefully scrutinized to assure compliance with several state and federal laws.

This 60-second video clip will help your medical practice identify six ways to reduce the likelihood of a HIPAA breach due to cyber crime.