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Barron Bogatto, JD, a partner in the health care and business transactions sections of Jackson Walker, a law firm in Houston, provides this summary of the gainsharing guidelines offered by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).
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The American Hospital Association (AHA) says it is "troubled" by a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plan to publicize the identity of those covered entities given civil monetary penalties under enforcement of HIPAA's administrative simplification section.
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... only covered entities and those people rendered accountable by general principles of corporate criminal liability may be prosecuted under criminal enforcement provisions of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification section.
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News: After undergoing brow-lift plastic surgery, a young woman blamed her subsequent delirium on the adverse effects of the post-surgery drugs she was prescribed.
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News: A man diagnosed with bipolar disorder became extremely depressed. Believing that he required full-time professional care, his family physician arranged for admittance to a psychiatric hospital.
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If you enjoyed your triennial survey, here's a chance to do it all over again the next week.
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Every year, pharmacists at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor prepare a million doses of medicines for thousands of young and often very ill patients.
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Plaintiff awards for medical malpractice cases are on the rise, according to a report from Jury Verdict Research.
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The HIPAA transaction standards have not resulted in the uniformity and efficiency envisioned when HIPAA was adopted.
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Question: I think we've done a good job of educating our staff about compliance with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), but I still worry that someone will slip up.