Compliance news and information

Amid looming shortages in healthcare workers, one branch of the federal government is ramping up aggressive efforts to keep some of them far away from patients.
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Healthcare organizations seeking to maximize the number of patient records they can expose through a given security breach should consider contracting for professional help. I'm only being partially facetious.
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It's been said, “There's no melon like a snitched melon.”Is there something about sneaking into someone else's patch and purloining a plump one that makes it taste sweeter?
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The University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center has notified 537 patients of a security breach involving their medical records after an unencrypted flash drive went missing.
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The CVS drugstore chain is getting out of the business of using its data from patient prescription drug records to mail prescription refill notices to customers on behalf of pharmaceutical manufacturers, citing as a reason for the policy change a more stringent provision of the omnibus privacy rule...
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Dr. Steven Stack, American Medical Association board chairman, gave a spirited defense of physicians and a sharp, but balanced critique of electronic health-record systems at a federal “listening” session Friday on EHRs and their potential for use in billing fraud.
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Medicare's inpatient rehabilitation facility payment rates could increase by up to 2% in fiscal 2014, under a rule proposed by the CMS.
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Editor's note: At a time of rapid change in the healthcare industry, HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson's office is charged with steering healthcare companies on the path of honest and transparent work. Modern Healthcare reporter Joe Carlson sat down with Levinson last week to talk about new...
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CareFusion Corp., the publicly traded devicemaker spun off from Cardinal Health, announced that it will enter into an agreement with federal investigators to pay $41 million and avoid criminal prosecution for its past sales and marketing of antiseptic surgical wipes.
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Simply knowing all the rules could prevent many of the problems plaguing data security and privacy among healthcare providers and insurers.
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