by Advize Admin | May 29, 2018 | Compliance, Cybersecurity
We’ve updated our privacy policy. Does this sentence look familiar? If you’re an active user of the Internet, then it should. Inboxes around the globe are being inundated with updated privacy policies, a verbose consequence of the European Union’s new set of privacy...
by Advize Admin | Mar 22, 2018 | Compliance, Payers
If you’re covered by Medicare, or if your patients are covered by it – you’re about to start feeling more of the effects of The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015. Most organizations have been preparing for MACRA’s ripple effects for years,...
by Advize Admin | Mar 6, 2018 | Compliance, Cybersecurity
Phishing is a common fraudulent practice that involves, “sending emails purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers”. Phishing is an example of deceptive social...
by Advize Admin | Jan 22, 2018 | Coding, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Fraud, FWA, Healthcare
This article is a continuation of Risky Retrievals. Walk-Ins Welcome Our medical record specialists are required to arrive at each facility with their equipment, as well as their ID badges and driver’s licenses. This is to ensure that their identities can be verified...
by Advize Admin | Jan 22, 2018 | Compliance, Fraud, FWA, Healthcare, Medical Record Auditing
For years, whenever we began launching a medical record review project, clients and physicians alike would ask us the same question: Why can’t you come onsite to pick up the requested records? The easy answer would have been to say that we simply hadn’t performed...
by Advize Admin | Dec 29, 2017 | Compliance, Healthcare, Payers
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...
by Advize Admin | Dec 18, 2017 | Compliance, Fraud, FWA
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...
by Advize Admin | Dec 11, 2017 | Compliance, Healthcare
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...
by Advize Admin | Dec 6, 2017 | Compliance, Healthcare, Payers
In an unexpected, albeit responsible move, Health and Human Services has retracted their support for a Patient Assistance Program. The Caring Voice Coalition (CVC) is a patient assistance charity that provides financial support to Medicare beneficiaries and other...
by Advize Admin | Nov 28, 2017 | Compliance, Fraud, FWA
Last year we had the ONE AND ONLY cheapest.booth.ever featured at NHCAA’s Annual Training Conference. This year Advize brought guacamole and cookies to the table at the Even Cheaper Cheapest Booth Ever. Advize Health had the honor of speaking with some of NHCAA’s...
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