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- Nurse pleads guilty to Medicare fraud
Jorge Pineiro, a registered nurse in Miami who worked for ABC Home Health Care Inc. and Florida Home Health Care Providers, Inc., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, according to a January 24 Department of Justice press release.
- Physician referral patterns ripe for scrutiny
When is a general practitioner's referral of a patient to a specialist an appropriate one that will likely lead to better outcomes, and when is it a categorical waste of money? Even worse, when is it something that provokes an unnecessarily harmful intervention involving more radiation, more specialists, false positives, or even useless surgery?
- HHS task force: Consider privacy, security with text messages
The government should take a better look at privacy and security concerns before it encourages and helps develop health text messaging and mobile health programs, an HHS task force recommends.
- Dealing with data breaches
You pick up the phone and someone tells you that a laptop containing thousands of patient files was left behind on the morning train. Or you learn that your own employees have been snooping into sensitive patient records for fun and profit. Or you discover that, for some odd reason, patient records have been posted on a completely unrelated public website for anyone to see, and they’ve been there for nearly a year.
- Demi Moore's medical records redacted
As we’ve been saying all along in HIPAA compliance circles, everyone has privacy rights under HIPAA – even celebrities.
- 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 overpayments and underpayments indentified in that quarter.
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