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Audit Preparedness: Best Practices for Health Plans to Stay Compliant

Preparing for audits is a year-round priority for healthcare organizations. The ever-evolving regulatory landscape requires health plans to adopt a proactive approach that integrates compliance monitoring, staff education, risk management, and transparent communication with auditors. Achieving audit readiness is essential to streamline processes, minimize risks, and maintain compliance during audits. In this blog, I’ll outline […]
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Audit Preparedness: Best Practices for Health Plans to Stay Compliant

Healthcare Data – How to Use it to Your Benefit

In today’s world, information travels at gigabit speeds. For business, this means near limitless opportunities to accumulate data and use […]

Providers: Email is main data breach culprit

A recent survey by Mimecast and HIMSS Analytics states that providers overwhelmingly rank email as the No. 1 source of […]

OCR: 5 ways to fight internal health data breaches

Healthcare organizations can protect themselves from internal healthcare data breaches. “Healthcare organizations are a prime target for internal breaches caused […]

5 Solutions for Conquering Challenges of Bundled Payment Models

Healthcare finance executives see strong IT investment in 2018, but a bubble could be growing

KPMG and Leavitt Partners new survey found that health and life sciences organizations intend to invest in analytics and digital […]

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Claims Analytics Help Medicare Identify, Prevent Provider Fraud

The use of a claims analytics platform helped Medicare to identify and prevent millions of dollars in provider fraud. “Close […]

Does Blockchain Have A Place In Healthcare?

Quality Payment Program needs more technical assistance, oversight, OIG finds

A new report by HHS’ Office of Inspector General gives CMS points for making significant efforts to implement the Quality […]

More billing codes, demonstrations help bridge physician payment gap

In the 2018 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, CMS said it is working incrementally to “identify gaps in appropriate coding and […]

Health systems’ IT priorities for 2018: Cybersecurity technologies, patient-generated data

Many major health systems plan to invest in improved cybersecurity technologies next year. “Cybersecurity improvements are top of mind for […]

10 top health technology hazards for 2018

With 2017 coming to a close, it is time to look ahead to 2018 and the top 10 health technology […]

All but 2 states pay for live video Medicaid encounters

Healthcare Dive Brief “Medicaid programs in 48 states and the District of Columbia reimburse for some form of live video […]

Career advice from women leaders proves health IT isn’t a boys’ club anymore

Women in Health IT: Some of the industry’s top women leaders share lessons learned that have helped them succeed in […]

HXG Cybersecurity Series: Multi-Factor Authentication

The Everlasting Issue of Breaches and How We Avoid Them We recently discussed how security breaches affect the healthcare system […]