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By Sarah N. Lynch for MSN Money The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled its largest-ever criminal healthcare fraud case against individuals on Friday, charging the owner of Miami-based assisted living facilities and two others in a massive $1 billion Medicare…
By Emily Mongan for McKnight’s A major Illinois healthcare system will pay $5.55 million to settle allegations of HIPAA noncompliance, marking the largest settlement to date against a single entity, officials said. The allegations against Advocate Health Care Network, which operates…
By Cheryl Branche for Medical Economics Imagine, in an effort to bill a higher fee, a colleague cuts and pastes a complete history and physical examination you wrote in the electronic health record (EHR) of your patient, but forgets to make…
By Brooke Murphy for Becker’s Hospital CFO As coders grow and mature in their knowledge of and experience with ICD-10, it’s critical hospital administrators recognize best practices and pinpoint coding deficiencies for continued improvement. H.I.M. ON CALL chairman and CEO…
By Avery Comarow and Ben Harder for U.S. News & World Report Rankings by specialty and ratings by procedure and condition, plus the elite 20-hospital Honor Roll. Ever since 1970, patients have been checking into a hospital somewhere in America at…
By Mac McMillan for Healthcare Informatics Last week I saw two ugly scenarios play out that did nothing positive for healthcare or its mission to protect patient information. The first incident involved escalations of the cyber threats healthcare organizations face.…
By Donald Voltz, MD for Health IT Outcomes Hardly a day goes by without some new revelation of a U.S. IT mess that seems like an endless round of the old radio show joke contest “Can You Top This” except, increasingly,…
By Selena Chavis for For The Record As outsourcing models gain a foothold, health care organizations weigh the pros and cons. Outsourced models are increasingly recognized as an attractive and viable option for a number of operational areas within health care…
Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on July 12, 2016 and is republished here with permission. A new proposed rule would reduce the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) “meaningful use” EHR Incentive…
Article by Mary Butler. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on June 13, 2016 and is republished here with permission. The implementation of ICD-10 did result in a perceived loss of coding productivity, with a minimal dip…