The Road to Compliance

The road to compliance is long and bumpy, but a trip we must all take in 2018. In January 2017, compliance professionals from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Inspector General (OIG) held an assembly in which they discussed how to measure...

Is This The End of CHIP?

The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is a program that has managed to gain (mostly) bipartisan support, as it provides low-cost healthcare to children in families that earn too much money to qualify for Medicaid; but its days may be numbered.  The funding...

Don’t Get Ghosted by Your DME Supplier

Medicare fraud maintains its position among the fastest growing crimes in the United States. The government loses nearly $75 billion a year to Medicare fraud; which has led to the conception of several anti-fraud initiatives, including the OIG’s Operation Whack-A-Mole...

Is OurNotes the Future of Documentation?

OurNotes is the name of an experimental, collaborative approach to clinical documentation that encourages providers and patients to co-produce medical notes. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) suggest that this kind of participation in the...