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Tennessee Hospital Agrees to Pay $3.59 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Concerning Ambulance Services

The Health Law Firm

Maury Regional Hospital, located in Columbia, Tennesse, has agreed to pay the federal government over $3.5 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that occurred between 2004 and 2009. The hospital self-reported after its own compliance program revealed billing problems for ambulance services.

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Health Care Data Wars: Stretching the Regulations on Information Blocking and The New Burdens of AI

Healthcare IT Today

and was prevented from using bots and screen scraping to get access to patient data. Now we’ll see how Real Time responded and look at the new burdens that AI is placing on health care as revealed by the case. APIs such as promoted by Amazon.com in retail were simply missing in health care. Progress has been slow.

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Medicare Audit Claims University of Miami Hospital Owes Government $3.7 Million

The Health Law Firm

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law The University of Miami Hospital allegedly owes Medicare $3.7 This is according to an audit report of the hospital’s billing practices that found the hospital allegedly overbilled the health care program in 2009 and 2010. Indest III, J.D.,

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HITECH Compliance

AIHC

Checklist for Individual & Small Group Practices Written by: Nancie Lee Cummins, CFE, CHA, CIFHA, OHCC, CHCM, CHCO, CORCM This article provides an overview of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and basic checklist of policies and procedures for compliance of smaller health care organizations.

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Healthcare IT Audit Essentials for CISOs

Compliancy Group

In this post, we discuss the critical laws governing healthcare security compliance. In this post, we discuss the critical laws governing healthcare security compliance. Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the healthcare industry, created a task group under the 2015 Cybersecurity Act (CSA).

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HITECH Compliance

AIHC

Checklist for Individual & Small Group Practices Written by: Nancie Lee Cummins, CFE, CHA, CIFHA, OHCC, CHCM, CHCO, CORCM This article provides an overview of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) and basic checklist of policies and procedures for compliance of smaller health care organizations.

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July 2022 Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review

HIT Consultant

Since 2008, the US economy functioned with remarkably low inflation and interest rates. We leveraged our experience executing transactions, extensive network, and market analysis from our 16-year history of advising and selectively investing across the ever-evolving Health IT and Digital Health sectors to gather key market information.