Legal Compliance

Physicians Practice's 2014 Technology Survey, Sponsored by Kareo, contains troubling findings regarding efforts to secure protected health information.

When it comes to billing Medicare, you may very well be able to bill one physician incident-to another. Here's how.

Here are four key areas of concern those in healthcare have when it comes to the future of mHealth apps, tools patient are utilizing in greater numbers.

Apple unveiled its Health app, compiling data from a user's health- and fitness-related apps in one place. Can it help patients take ownership of their health?

Understanding the Family and Medical Leave Act and what it requires can help medical practices avoid costly missteps.

When it comes to understanding why we need HIPAA compliance, government regulators are on one side of a very wide river, and physicians are on the other.

Physicians must find new ways to ensure they are informed and knowledgeable about healthcare changes and how those changes will affect their medical practices.

The ability to securely communicate ePHI to any provider at any other medical practice or hospital with any EHR may not be as far off as you think.

Why one pediatric practice that received over $100,000 in increased payments due to an ACA initiative has to pay the money back.

In medical practice, a cottage industry has developed, which is dedicated solely to legal “fault finding” without regard to equity.

When crafting HIPAA security policies at your medical practice, don't overlook the broader information footprint.

From a sample patient dismissal letter to an RVU calculator; these 10 resources will help your practice operate in a more efficient and compliant manner.

If you are a physician, be mindful that payments to a commissioned sales force for the referral or recommendation of business can be illegal.

Medical practices must become more aware of the HIPAA Security Rule and the HIPAA Breach Notification Rule.

Important financial and compliance issues can be digested easily with a little planning. March is a good time to look at HR issues in your practice.

Payers know that correctly writing down every patient encounter is difficult for physicians, if not impossible. Therefore, exploiting this is easy for them.

In this webinar, presented March 18, 2014, healthcare attorneys Ericka L. Adler and Rachel V. Rose provide tips to keep your medical practice HIPAA compliant.

When admitting patients to the hospital, knowing Medicare rules and making use of diligent charting can make all the difference.

More physicians are using their mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets for healthcare purposes. But not all are using them securely.

A little preparation will go a long way toward helping medical practices pass meaningful use audits.

Mobile devices bring great benefits to healthcare, but they also pose great risks. Here's how to mitigate those risks.

How to use technology and education to assist your medical practice's physicians with the ICD-10 transition before it happens.

Poor physician communication makes it more likely a patient will file a malpractice lawsuit against you. Here are 10 things to never say to patients.

No matter how cleverly structured, schemes to circumvent Stark Law are risky for physicians, and the consequences of failing to comply can be devastating.

HHS asserts that a proposed rule is trying to strike a balance between the individual privacy protections of HIPAA and public safety considerations.