Retired OIG Special Agent and Advize’s Director of Litigation & FWA Support will be stepping in each week to examine current fraud trends from the lens of an investigator. Stay tuned for weekly insights, updates, and information on healthcare’s most expensive crimes. This past week, I had the pleasure of presenting a webinar to approximately…
Eric Rubenstein, Director of Litigation & FWA at Advize Health will be speaking at the AAPC’s New York City Regional Conference. His session, GS2:Anatomy of a Healthcare Fraud Investigation: Implications and Stop-Gap Measures for Compliance Professionals will provide attendees with information on the variety of ways in which an OIG healthcare fraud investigation is initiated….
The Texas Medical Center surveyed 5,000 people across the United States and found that the #1 reason for poll participation in the upcoming midterm elections will be, you guessed it, healthcare. While this interest in healthcare is certainly encouraging, there’s more to the healthcare picture than just cost to patients. In the spirit of Halloween…
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 engineering, one that exploits cybersecurity weaknesses held across most industries, including healthcare. Phishing attempts are typically…
Advize is here to advise you! Join us for an exclusive webinar on the 2018 OIG Work Plan. Free to the first 500 participants, this webinar will be available on AdvizeU after the live broadcast for those who miss the cut off. This session will provide an overview of the 2018 OIG Work Plan responsibilities,…
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 the efficacy of Compliance Programs. From this roundtable came…
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 Annual Training Conference (ATC) attendees right in our backyard. The ATC is widely-regarded…
Picture yourself balancing on top of a fence with vast expanses of land, each with their own set of governance, visible to you from both sides. You’re straddling the fence, your legs occupying each of the divided spaces. Where do you stand? It depends on which way the wind blows. Such is the case with…
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has a primary goal of protecting the confidentiality and security of healthcare in formation, and has established standards for electronic data interchange (EDI). HIPAA is celebrating its twenty-first anniversary this year, after its enactment on August 21, 1996. HIPAA was groundbreaking at the time, with standards in…