From Report on Patient Privacy - Credit monitoring, identify theft protection, financial restoration. What are these services and when are they beneficial — or a waste of money but likely to be offered anyway by a covered entity unfortunate enough to suffer a breach? There are no easy answers, as the health care world recently learned as it watched the Department of Defense (DoD) bungle its way through managing the biggest known health care breach, affecting 5.1 million people. The incident concerned the theft of back-up tapes from the car of a TRICARE business associate, Science Applications International Corp. Read more
From Report on Medicare Compliance - If it had just been facing RAC audits, Advocate Health Care in Oak Brook, Ill., might have continued its largely decentralized approach to defending against government audits at its 12 hospitals. But as a slew of state and federal program-integrity contractors revved up their audit machines, it became clear to Advocate’s compliance department that a more coordinated, corporate response was necessary. Read more
From Report on Medicare Compliance - Whidbey Island Public Hospital District in Coupeville, Wash., agreed to pay $858,571 to settle allegations that it violated the civil money penalty law related to Stark and kickbacks, the HHS Office of Inspector General said in late December. That’s a large fine for a single-hospital CMP settlement, although Whidbey is not alone. Read more
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