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The Physician Payments Sunshine Act – Compliance in a Nutshell                                                                     

AIHC

Written by Corliss Collins BSHIM, RHIT, CRCR, CCA, CAIMC, CAIP, CSM, CBCS, CPDC and Sheryn Honest, MBA, MLS, CHCO, CHA, CPC The primary goal of the Sunshine Act is to increase transparency in the financial relationships between healthcare providers (physicians and teaching hospitals) and the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

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How 2014 IPPS Final Rule Impacts Physicians Admitting Patients to Hospitals

The Health Law Firm

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On August 2, 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2014 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule (the 2014 IPPS Final Rule). Indest III, J.D.,

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The Empathy-First Approach: Choosing Technology that Benefits All Healthcare Stakeholders

Healthcare IT Today

The current healthcare system is rife with administrative inefficiencies and redundancies, which can lead to delayed or denied payments for payers. Payers have to manage complex payment systems, track performance, and ensure regulatory compliance. In 2014, he received the Louis J.

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On National Rural Health Day, We Recommit to Improving Rural Health

CMS.gov

Many rural communities lack access to specialty care and have a fragmented healthcare delivery system with an overworked and shrinking health workforce. We know that accurate and appropriate Medicare payment rates are essential to all hospitals, especially rural ones. I’m proud of our achievements, but we are not stopping here.

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How the Fifty States View Electronic Data as a “Product”

Drug & Device Law

2014 WL 46696, at *5 (C.D. 3, 2014) (claim dismissed absent any “facts to support that Defendant’s software includes physical items or is a tangible product”); Windsor Auctions, Inc. Sharp Memorial Hospital , 264 Cal. Sharp Memorial Hospital, Inc. , 2014 WL 1247768, at *3 (E.D. March 25, 2014); Torres v.