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MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)® is celebrating the 25
th anniversary of our flagship conference, the Compliance Institute, April 19-22, 2021. For over two decades, this conference has served as the primary educational and networking event for healthcare compliance professionals across the country. We re thrilled to celebrate this milestone anniversary with four days of first-class compliance and ethics education. For this very special 25th anniversary, we hoped we could all be together to celebrate, said Gerry Zack, CEO of SCCE & HCCA, But even in the virtual environment, in which the CI will be held, we ll provide another great lineup of speakers and topics, and we ll find some time to celebrate our 25th birthday along the way.
CMS is taking back money from hospitals for outpatient clinic visits provided in 2019 at excepted off-campus provider-based departments (PBDs) after returning the money when it lost a federal court decision on the site-neutral payment policy introduced in the 2019 Outpatient Prospective Payment System regulation.
Now that CMS won its appeal
[1] of the decision at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which restored the site-neutral payment policy, CMS “will begin reprocessing the claims” by July 1, 2021, according to an
MLN Connects
[2] posted Jan. 14.
“It is a shame CMS is taking this action now, when hospitals are struggling with the increased costs of responding to community need around the COVID pandemic,” said attorney Larry Vernaglia, with Foley & Lardner in Boston. “While CMS has done many great things to assist the hospital community in the past 10 months, this will sting. Many hospitals will not have reserved for this recoupment. Ind
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The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) settled its 13th enforcement action in its Right of Access Initiative, first announced in 2019 to support individuals’ rights to timely access their health records at a reasonable cost under the privacy rule.
[1] As part of the settlement, announced Dec. 22, Peter Wrobel, doing business as Georgia-based Elite Primary Care, agreed to take corrective actions and pay $36,000 to settle a potential violation of the right of access standard. In April 2019, OCR received a complaint alleging that Elite failed to respond to a patient’s request for access to his medical records, and OCR provided technical assistance in May 2019. However, OCR received a second complaint in October 2019 alleging that Elite still had not provided the patient with access to his medical records and initiated an investigation. In addition to the monetary settlement, Elite is required to follow a corrective action plan (CAP) for two years. The
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Security threats to health care entities will continue to escalate in 2021, as bad actors with significant capabilities target pandemic-weary organizations still struggling with a stay-at-home workforce, cybersecurity experts report.
This year’s threats will look familiar: phishing, ransomware and information technology (IT) changes will all play a role, experts told
RPP. However, those threats are evolving to become more sophisticated, making defense against them more difficult even as new tools arrive.
“As artificial intelligence is being rolled out on the defensive side, bad actors have similar tools that allow for a once-complicated task or hack to be as simple as the push of a button,” reported Roger Shindell, founder and CEO of Carosh Compliance Solutions.
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Adam Turteltaub, chief engagement and strategy officer at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics Adam Turteltaub, chief engagement and strategy officer at the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, says compliance teams should create a dashboard of data that will help keep track of actions taken by staff members who are working remotely. “Data analytics and dashboards help compliance teams to look at data and understand if the current compliance program is actually working for them,” he says. If your data is in different places, it is very hard to convince regulators that you truly have a thorough compliance program.”