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Digital Do’s and Don’ts: Navigating Healthcare Compliance Successfully

American Medical Compliance

As featured in Companies Market Cap, the top 10 publicly traded healthcare companies have revenue of $39 billion to $359 billion as of 2023. Unfortunately, all of these could lead to severe legal consequences, including HIPAA violations. This is because of the rapidly growing global population and aging demographic.

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Should Healthcare Providers Give Law Enforcement Protected Health Information When Informally Requested? Congress Says No.

Healthcare Law Insights blog

This cooperative, well-intentioned practice by healthcare providers now appears to be drawing scrutiny from Congress. The Law Enforcement Exception to HIPAA As a baseline, HIPAA-covered entities may disclose PHI to law enforcement with a patient’s signed HIPAA authorization. Isn’t that entrapment?

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Impact of COVID-19 Privacy Policy Expiration

American Medical Compliance

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) granted enforcement discretion for certain aspects of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) during the public health emergency. Reference US Department of Health and Human Services (11 April 2023). Visit [link] for more information.

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How to Work With Healthcare Talent Partners to Improve Quality of Care 

IntelyCare

It shouldn’t be a huge surprise that many senior living communities have told McKnight’s that they will have to increase agency use this year , especially in light of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) potentially moving forward with a new minimum staffing standard in 2023.

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