HIPAA compliance: Practices Face Big Fines For Not Getting Patients Requested PHI In Time
April 23, 2021 | By By Rachel Rose, JD, MBA Early in 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Office for Civil Rights (HHS-OCR) announced…
Auditing Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) Services
March 12, 2021 | Aimee L. Wilcox, CPMA, CCS-P, CST, MA, MT, Director of Content, innoviHealth Because deaths due to drug overdose is a nationwide epidemic, federal, state, and…
External Reviews are For More Than Proof of an Audit
March 5, 2021 | By Stephanie Allard, CPC, CEMA, RHIT When I begin to work with a new client on an auditing project, I like to set up a…
Critical Care Billing: It’s the Little Things
February 19, 2021 | By David Carpenter Critical care billing is relatively simple. Documentation requires three items – The patient is critically ill. What the provider is doing…
The Year of the Audit: Stand Your Ground with Payers
January 22, 2021 | By Sean M. Weiss, CHC, CMCO, CEMA, CPMA, CPC-P, CMPE, CPC Welcome to 2021, “y’all” – as we say down yonder in the beautiful South!…
Performing a Gap Analysis
December 4, 2020 | By Sean Weiss, CHC, CEMA, CMCO, CPMA, CPC-P, CMPE, CPC Last month, Paul Spencer, Senior Compliance Consultant of DoctorsManagement (DM) and I had the privilege of…
The Peril of Policies
August 28, 2020 | By David Glaser, JD For the compliance-oriented, there is something rewarding about developing policies. It feels like an accomplishment, demonstrable proof of a desire to…
OIG HHS Audits Resuming
August 21, 2020 | By Jesse Overbay, JD On March 13, 2020, the President of the United States issued an emergency declaration under the Stafford Act to declare a…
HIPAA and COVID-19: Patchwork Protocols and Protecting Privacy
June 12, 2020 | By By Bryan Meek, Esq., Brennan, Manna, and Diamond As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc globally, many industries have been forced to adapt to…
Telehealth Exam Documentation
June 5, 2020 | By Scott Kraft, CPMA, CPC During the rapid pivot to telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the biggest priorities has been staying on top…