Compliance news and information

Health information technology leaders have a lot on their plates today and more to come—implementing systems to match the federal IT incentive payment program upgrades, satisfying auditors roaming the land, meeting privacy constraints and preparing for the switch to a huge set of updated...
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Planned Parenthood of the Heartland filed a lawsuit in federal court Sept. 30 asking a judge to grant a stay against a rule from the Iowa Board of Medicine that would restrict abortion access in the state.
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Officials in Republican-led states with federally facilitated exchanges report widely varying levels of competition and preparedness in advance of the Oct. 1 start of open enrollment.
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In the run-up to the Sept. 23 enforcement date for a host of revisions to federal health information privacy laws, one group—clinical laboratories—will get something of a respite, and another—pharmaceutical manufacturers—some regulatory relief.
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South Carolina's hospitals collectively submitted 46 plans for improving the lives of chronically ill, uninsured residents who frequently use their emergency rooms.
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The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board levied sanctions worth about $2 million in fiscal 2013 on groups ranging from DuPage Medical Group, one of the largest physicians groups in the state, to Roseland Community Hospital, a financially struggling safety-net facility on Chicago's...
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Effective October 1, 2013 CMS will fundamentally alter the manner in which hospitals define how inpatient status and outpatient observation is determined. The IPPS 2014 Final Rule contains two provisions that directly affect the day to day operations of the hospital. First, CMS has made...
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Certification of medical scribes does not satisfy concerns about whether scribes should be allowed to use computerized order entry as part of the meaningful-use program for electronic health records, the federal government says.
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About 3,720 years ago, the Code of Hammurabi and the founding of the Babylonian Empire were already old news, but war chariots were about to become the hottest thing in weapons technology. Put another way, that's roughly 32.8 million hours ago.
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The nation's hospitals, nursing homes and outpatient clinics continue to fall short when it comes to performing necessary—and sometimes very basic—steps to prevent the spread of infection that can cause illness or death, new data from the Joint Commission show.
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