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Compliance Checkup: DOJ Updates to Corporate Compliance Program to Impact Health Care Providers
on May 2, 2023
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently updated its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Program (ECCP) guidance with a focus on ensuring effective measures are in place to prevent and detect potential misconduct. The ECCP guidance outlines different aspects that prosecutors will consider when evaluating the effectiveness of a corporate compliance program....
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Business Transactions & Corporate Counseling, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy and Health Care
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Technology, Health Care and Nurse Practitioners
Compliance Checkup & Corporate TIPS: Fifth Circuit Shines a Light on HIPAA "Encryption" and "Disclosure" Rules in M.D. Anderson Decision
on May 11, 2021
Earlier this year, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision vacating a $4.3 million penalty imposed on University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center by the U.S. Department of Human Services (HHS) for self-reported HIPAA violations, including violations of the Encryption and Disclosure Rules....
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Compliance Checkup: Takeaways from the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Final Rules
on April 13, 2021
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued final rules updating and revising the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute....
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Compliance Checkup: Major Proposed Changes to HIPAA
on February 9, 2021
In December, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with several changes to the HIPAA privacy rule in response to a request for feedback from covered entities in 2018 and 2019. At a high level, the new changes address standards that may make it difficult when transitioning to value-based health care by limiting or discouraging care coordination and case management communications among individuals and covered entities....
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Compliance Checkup: How to Wisely Discount Your Services
on February 18, 2020
In general, there is no prohibition against discounting a fee for a self-paying patient (a patient who pays out-of-pocket and is not covered by a health plan, including Medicare or Medicaid). However, when instituting a discount policy you need to be careful that it does not affect your Medicare reimbursement rates....