Audit Protection
Q&As / Did You Know?
By Kathy Mills Chang - March 23, 2012
More Q&As and “Did YouKnow” entries from our Facebook page. If you haven’t liked our page yet, you can do it HERE! Q: When do I need authorization from the patient before I can market to him/her? A: The HIPAA Privacy Rule requires an authorization for uses or disclosures of protected health information for ALL [...]
KMC University WOW! Newsletter – January 2012
By Kathy Mills Chang - February 2, 2012
We’re starting 2012 with a brand new KMC University’s WOW! Newsletter! As usual, it is filled with useful information, but now it is delivered in a friendly PDF format so you can save it on your hard drive, or print it out and file it in a three-ring folder; we want this newsletter to [...]
WOW! August 2011 – The Sharks are Starting to Circle
By Kathy Mills Chang - August 25, 2011
On Thursday July 28, 2011 Inspector General Daniel Levinson testified before the House of Representatives about the OIG’s strategy to reduce improper Medicare payments. In 2010 approximately $47.9 billion was paid out for claims and services that were medically unnecessary, lacked documentation, were ineligible, and coded incorrectly. 98% of the inaccuracies were attributable to [...]
Become AWARE of Recent Medicare Reform Legislation: Don’t Let Over Payments Bite You!
By Kathy Mills Chang - June 30, 2011
Section 6402(d) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires that all Medicare providers, (1a) return and report any Medicare overpayment, and (b) explain, in writing, the reason for the overpayment. (2a) Any overpayment must be returned and reported no later than 60 days after the overpayment was identified, or (b) the [...]
