CMS Issues 3 FAQs on Stage 2 Rules and the Medicaid EHR Incentive Program
CMS has responded to several questions following the issuance of its Stage 2 Meaningful Use Final Rule. Along with publishing new meaningful use guidelines, the Final Rule adds new provisions...
View ArticleOIG Approves Electronic Interface Arrangement
In a recent advisory opinion, the Office of Inspector General DHHS (“OIG”) approved an arrangement under which free access to an electronic computer interface is provided by a hospital to local...
View ArticleNew Court of Appeals Decision Provides Guidance on Medicaid Spenddown...
The recent appellate decision in Multicare v. State of Washington Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) sheds light on how hospitals should use a patient’s “spenddown” in the billing process...
View ArticleMedicaid Disallows Reimbursement, Requires Reporting for Provider Preventable...
Starting July 1, 2013, the Washington Medicaid program will not pay a provider for the health care costs of treating conditions that the provider could have prevented. The rule, WAC 182-502-0022,...
View ArticleOIG Launches New Online Submission Process for the Self-Disclosure Protocol
On July 8th, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) launched a new online submission process for the Self-Disclosure Protocol (SDP). The SDP allows health care providers to voluntarily identify,...
View ArticleCA Surgeon Stripped of Medicaid Funding for Failure to Treat HIV Positive...
On July 18th, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that a California surgeon who refused to treat a patient based solely on the patient’s condition as HIV positive would lose...
View ArticleOIG Okays Provision of Free Services to Uninsured and Underinsured Patients
On October 15, 2013, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released an Advisory Opinion concerning a community health services organization’s provision of free dental care to financially needy...
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