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APCs Weekly Monitor

• Q/A: New device pass-through categories

  Q: Will CMS ever approve any new device pass-through categories?

• Tip: Note physician supervision changes

  CMS finalized two significant changes to the physician supervision requirements as part of the 2012...

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Compliance Monitor

• Tip: Perform your own internal investigation prior to government audit

  If the government is paying your facility a visit, you'd better understand what they're looking for...

• HIPAA Q&A: Flu shot requirement for hospital employees

  Q: Our healthcare facility is requiring employees to get the flu shot or they will have to wear a...

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Healthcare Auditing Weekly

• Hacker holds patient health information for ransom

  A Virginia hacker is asking for $10 million in exchange for the safe return of the personal health...

• Tip: Determine risk with walk-through interviews

  One of the best ways to obtain information about the risk exposures facing an organization is to...

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HIPAA Weekly Advisor

• Report: Breaches reach 19 million records

  Covered entities and business associates reported a total of 385 breaches of unsecured PHI...

• How to respond to audit findings

  Truth be told, the real work for healthcare organizations may come after a HIPAA compliance audit...

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Medicare Update for Physician Services

• Note from Peggy: The conversion factor game

  Well it looks like 2012 is going to be déjà vu for the physicians who experienced...

• Regulations: None this month

  CMS issued no significant regulations affecting physician billing this month.

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Medicare Weekly Update

• Note: Recovery audits result in changes to CMS systems and recoupment options

  This week CMS published two transmittals that affect CMS systems as a result of the recovery audit...

• Regulations: CMS corrects IPPS final rule errors, publishes outpatient drug proposed rule, and requests comments regarding transfers

  On February 1, CMS corrected technical errors that occurred in Tables 2, 4C, and 9A of the fiscal...

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The RAC Report

• CMS posts Q4 improper payment figures, top issues by region

  Each quarter CMS issues a recovery audit program update that details the total amount of...

• CMS posts new quarterly provider compliance newsletter

  In its most recent (January 20) Medicare Quarterly Provider Compliance Newsletter, CMS once again...