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Is Your Compliance Plan Protecting You?

Violin19/04/2023 50 Views

Healthcare compliance plans are essential to ensure your practice is following the law. Your compliance plan can keep your practice out of trouble.

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A recent enforcement action highlights the need for an effective and updated compliance plan.

A physician in Arkansas has been sentenced to 102 months of prison time and to pay over $4.63 million in restitution. Following release from prison, he will have three (3) years of supervised

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Buying health insurance for your next foreign trip: Don’t fall victim to the fine print

Violin12/04/2023 37 Views

A Saskatchewan man’s nightmarish trip to the United States is a cautionary tale for those who travel outside of Canada.

If you are taking a trip soon, experts say, now is the time to look into purchasing travel health insurance and, they emphasize, read the fine print before you buy.

When Louis Lamothe, 72, from Halbrite, Sask., suffered a stroke while vacationing in Arizona, his family got another dose of bad news: Their insurance claim had been denied and they would be on the hook for the $56,000 flight home, as well as other hundreds of thousands of dollars in

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11 Basic Money Mistakes You Might Be Making (But Could Easily Avoid)

Violin10/04/2023 63 Views

There’s so much advice about what you should or shouldn’t be doing with your money that it can be hard to determine what’s essential.

But the truth is that some money moves matter. Here are some mistakes you want to avoid, and what to do instead to get ahead financially.

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1. Spending more than you earn

If you spend more than you earn, it could impact your finances for years to come. Overspending can become a habit and negatively impact your savings or lead to unnecessary debt.

But even beyond that, you could end up falling for the

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What Oregonians need to know about the Medicaid income verification starting this month | state

Violin08/04/2023 44 Views

SALEM — For the first time in three years people on the Oregon Health Plan and the Children’s Health Insurance Plan, the state’s Medicaid programs, could lose their coverage if their family income has gone up. The plans cover about one in three Oregonians.

Federal rules require states to periodically verify the incomes of people on Medicaid and remove them if their income exceeds the program limits. Income checks were suspended during the pandemic but are summing up this month, following a timeline set by Congress to wind down COVID-19 pandemic emergency measures.

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Medicare, Social Security could fall short over next decade, report warns

Violin05/04/2023 57 Views

WASHINGTON — Medicare, the federal government-sponsored health insurance that covers 65 million older and disabled people, will be unable to pay full benefits for inpatient hospital visits and nursing home stays by 2031, the annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report warns.

Two years after that, the report says, Social Security won’t have enough cash on hand to pay full benefits to its 66 million retirees.

That forecast regarding the financial safety nets that millions of older Americans rely on — and millions more younger people are counting on — is another product for politicians to address the fragile financial

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How Many Uninsured Are in the Coverage Gap and How Many Could be Eligible if All States Adopted the Medicaid Expansion?

Violin05/04/2023 77 Views

The end of the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision in March 2023 and the resumption of Medicaid disenrollments after a three-year pause during the pandemic are likely to refocus attention on gaps in Medicaid coverage in the ten states that have not adopted the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) ) Medicaid expansion as of March 2023. During the pandemic, Medicaid enrollment increased and the uninsured rate dropped in large part due to continuous enrollment. Once Medicaid disenrollments resume, the number of people who are uninsured is expected to increase and could rise more steeply in non-expansion states. In expansion states, because all

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The health insurance challenges many New Yorkers face

Violin31/03/2023 62 Views

ROCHESTER, NY — A large portion of employees in the US recently renewed or changed health insurance providers, but there are also 26-year-olds trying to navigate the world of health insurance on their own year-round.

“Yes, you know, you need these things as an adult, but typically you set it and forget it. And it’s just that decision process that’s very stressful,” said Sean Healey as he prepares to make the decision every 26-year-old is faced with when they get kicked off of their parent’s coverage plan.

What You Need To Know

Health insurance can be a tricky decision to

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Healthcare Encryption Exceptions? – Rickard & Associates

Violin29/03/2023 70 Views

We know that all emails and text messages that contain protected health information (PHI) should be encrypted.

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Are there any exceptions to the encryption rule?

Just one.

Patients can communicate with covered entities using unencrypted email and text messages, if the patients have been informed of the increased risk.

Patients can opt to have reminders sent via text messages or emails.

One issue that many healthcare providers have regarding encryption,

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