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Welcome to the strange and mysterious world of medical billing. If ever there was an industry in which the charges and the payments have no correlation, the medical industry is it. Medical billing can indeed be quite...more
Grounded in the OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance and DOJ’s Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, our immersive, three-and-a-half-day, classroom-style Healthcare Basic Compliance Academy equips compliance...more
Recently Protiviti released an intriguing report: Top Compliance Priorities for U.S. Healthcare Organizations in 2025. In this podcast their Global Healthcare Compliance Leader, Leyla Erkan, CHC, CHP, CHRC, shares some of the...more
The American Bar Association’s suggestion last year that it would be ethically problematic for lawyers to charge high fees for formerly time-intensive work made easy by generative artificial intelligence has prompted an...more
On March 6, 2025, federal prosecutors charged a Minnesota couple — Gabriel Adam Alexander Luthor and Elizabeth Christine Brown — with orchestrating a $15 million healthcare fraud scheme involving overbilling and submission of...more
Ideal for practitioners who want to build strong foundational knowledge of compliance program management in a healthcare setting and how to apply that knowledge in practice. Attendees will come away better prepared to...more
In what is already a highly regulated industry, it is becoming increasingly difficult for healthcare organizations to navigate the growing volume, complexity and enforcement of laws, regulations and guidance that surround...more
In 2025, get ready for a whirlwind of updates across the state. From personal jurisdiction to discovery and beyond, some recent cases are shifting the landscape in New York. Read below to find out what happened and learn the...more
HCCA's Healthcare Research Compliance Academy is a three-and-a-half-day interactive educational program with a focus on the highly specialized and complex regulations and issues that affect research compliance professionals....more
The US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s (OIG’s) release of Nursing Facility Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance (ICPG) for the first time since 2008 reemphasizes the...more
As the new year continues, it is useful to review your practice’s processes and policies to ensure that the practice operates with efficiency and remains compliant with ever-changing healthcare regulations....more
Recent decisions by the Maine Legislature and the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) may affect participants in Maine’s Net Energy Billing (NEB) Program...more
Get the latest insights in research compliance - The risks and challenges that come with clinical research are unique, as are the abundance of government regulations and enforcers that oversee them. HCCA’s Research...more
In 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) provided useful insights to the healthcare industry regarding how it approaches various fraud and abuse issues in an...more
On January 8, 2025, Governor Mike DeWine signed into law House Bill 403, which enacts § 4513.71 of the Ohio Revised Code and establishes clear dispute resolution protocols to secure expedited release of motor vehicles and...more
The way we work is changing rapidly and changing in ways that legal professionals never expected. Expectations are different. The pace is faster, and managing the complexity of information is growing at a pace that the...more
As part of its Modernization Initiative, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently published its first industry-segment specific Compliance Program Guidance, which focuses on...more
As 2024 winds down, the legal industry navigates a shifting and increasingly complex landscape. Clients are growing weary of rising costs, amplifying the pressure on firms to balance rate increases with greater efficiency and...more
The No Surprises Act, a law that ended the practice of “balance billing” by certain out-of-network providers, was enacted as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 on December 27, 2020. While the law passed...more
In the property restoration industry, time and materials (T&M) mitigation invoicing can be complex and, if not handled carefully, fraught with errors. Claims professionals often find themselves reviewing invoices that are...more
On November 20, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released the “Nursing Facility ICPG,” an industry-specific compliance program guidance for nursing facilities....more
On November 20, 2024, OIG released new compliance program guidelines for nursing facilities titled, “Nursing Facility Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance” (the Nursing Facility ICPG or the Guidance). The...more
Welcome to our seventh issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. This will be our final issue of 2024. When we started this publication earlier this year, our goal was to provide our clients,...more