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12 May 2017, 12:28 pm by Debra A. McCurdy
  The panel held a separate hearing on “Combating Waste Fraud and Abuse in Medicaid Personal Care Services Program. [read post]
12 May 2017, 12:17 pm by Brenda Boschetto
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) believes that provider education plays an important role in ensuring payments are made properly; CMS has delegated authority for provider education to the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs). [read post]
12 May 2017, 12:15 pm by Brenda Boschetto
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has waived some of these coverage restrictions in eight innovative demonstration projects and payment and delivery models. [read post]
10 May 2017, 3:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
The Resolution Agreement resolves OCR charges the operator of 13 hospitals, eight Cancer Centers, three Heart & Vascular Institutes, and 27 sports medicine and rehabilitation centers violated the Privacy Rule that resulted from an OCR compliance review of MHHS triggered by multiple media reports suggesting that MHHS improperly disclosed the name and other details about a patient arrested and charged with presenting an allegedly fraudulent identification card to office staff at… [read post]
10 May 2017, 10:20 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Her day-to-day work encompasses both labor and employment issues, as well as independent contractor, outsourcing, employee leasing, management services and other nontraditional service relationships. [read post]
9 May 2017, 11:23 am by Kevin S. Little
Federally Qualified Health Centers FQHCs provide primary and preventative healthcare services to medically underserved populations. [read post]
6 May 2017, 4:25 am by Jon Gelman
A Federal Court in California has prohibited the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) from seeking reimbursement of conditional payments when the medical codes for the conditions are unrelated or not related even if the primary code was for a work-related medical condition. [read post]
5 May 2017, 5:11 am by Moll Law Group
See More Posts: Bed-Sores Considered a “Never Event” by Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog, March 8, 2017. [read post]
3 May 2017, 4:35 am by Moll Law Group
See More Posts: Bed-Sores Considered a “Never Event” by Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog, March 8, 2017. [read post]
30 Apr 2017, 6:00 pm by Yale Hauptman
  In February, the Jimmo court approved a corrective statement which the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) must now use to disavow the “Improvement Standard”. [read post]
28 Apr 2017, 10:23 am by Levin & Perconti
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are on a crusade to make private health care accreditation data available to the public, believing that many major issues related to patient safety are being overlooked. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 6:14 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
OCR announced the first OCR HIPAA settlement involving a wireless health services provider Monday, April 24. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 9:02 am by Fraud Fighters
The lawsuit alleges that the company engaged in government programs fraud by incentivizing physicians to conduct tests and prescribe sleep therapy and oxygen products to patients who utilize government health insurance programs such as Medicare, Medi-cal (California’s Medicaid program), and TRICARE, that were medically unnecessary. [read post]
25 Apr 2017, 3:21 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
 Among other things, group health plans and their fiduciaries can face audits, litigation and enforcement actions by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and other health plans for improperly coordinating plan claims with other coverage as well as lawsuits from covered persons, their health care providers or other beneficiaries, the Department of Labor and CMS, or others seeking to enforce rights to benefits, penalties in the case of CMS or the… [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 5:08 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  That’s the clear message to covered entities and their business associates in the April 17, 2017 HIPAA Resolution Agreement just announced by the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) with the Center for Children’s Digestive Health (CCDH). [read post]
24 Apr 2017, 10:41 am by Debra A. McCurdy
  It appears, however, that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is finally preparing to start a rulemaking process to reform the Medicare SNF payment system – separate from the annual prospective payment system (PPS) update process. [read post]
23 Apr 2017, 5:39 pm by Steven Boutwell
By Lyn Savoie On March 27, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) posted revisions to the Voluntary Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol (SRDP), which provides a process for the disclosure of potential or actual violations of the federal physician self-referral law (commonly known as the Stark Law). [read post]
21 Apr 2017, 5:00 am by John Jascob
Following investigations by regulators, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services imposed sanctions on Theranos in July 2016. [read post]