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Ruthia He, founder and CEO of ADHD-prescribing site Done, is convicted on federal charges of illegally distributing Adderall, committing healthcare claims fraud, and conspiring to obstruct justice. The company’s clinical president,…
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says that the agency will increase resources to enforce healthcare information blocking, which the HHS announcement says “was not a priority under the Biden Administration.”…
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Rising Trend of AMA Discharges
Medicare beneficiaries are increasingly choosing to discharge themselves from hospitals against medical advice (AMA), creating significant challenges for healthcare providers and the Medicare system. According to a comprehensive review by…
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, JD, LLM is sworn in as HHS secretary.
He will manage a $2 trillion budget and will oversee CMS, CDC, FDA, NIH, the Public Health Service, HHS OIG, AHRQ,…
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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was designed to protect sensitive patient data and ensure compliance within the healthcare sector. However, a recent report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) indicates…
In examining how the Office of Civil Rights administered its periodic Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act audit program from January 2016 through December 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office…
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Similar to its findings last year, the Office of Inspector General said Tuesday that the U.S. Health and Human Services continued to have difficulty in identifying, detecting, responding to and recovering from threats to…
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HHS OIG rates HHS’s information security program as “not effective” in its annual review, the same rating it gave HHS last year.
OIG made six recommendations to HHS:
Update its inventory of enterprise architecture…
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Katie Sender, MSN, RN, PHN, CRC VP, Clinical and Coding Services at Cotiviti, Inc.
Risk adjustment requires constant attention to ensure accurate coding, timely regulatory compliance, and streamlined communications across the payer-provider continuum. Increasingly rigorous…
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A new report from the VA OIG finds that the VA’s Oracle Health-based EHR that has been implemented at six facilities experienced 826 major performance incidents between October 2020 and March 2024.
Over…
