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EDITOR’S NOTE: President Trump’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services Rep. Tom Price, (R-Ga.) came under intense scrutiny during Senate confirmation hearings on

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The first day of school. The first day of a new job. Both tend to come with jitters and apprehension. Yesterday marked the first Monday

With the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th U.S. president getting underway this morning in Washington, D.C., 30 percent of healthcare professionals believe that

Because the healthcare world is so highly regulated, assertions that you “must” or “can’t” perform a particular action are common. Because the penalties for legal

With more and more health information being stored and transmitted electronically, the demand for easier access to protected health information (PHI) has grown dramatically of

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a two-part series on the state of rural healthcare in America. In part two, the author will report

Effective Jan. 17, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule titled Medicare Program: Changes to the Medicare Claims and

Compliance and fines are two things that go together in healthcare. The environment for imposing those fines and issuing exclusions for individuals or companies that

FEATURING Janelle Ali-Dinar, PhD; Nancy Beckley, MS, MBA, CHC; Bret Bissey, MBA, FACHE, CHC, CMPE; William Dombi, Esq.; Sara Goldstein, Esq.; Ronald Hirsch, MD, FACP,

For those compliance officers and leaders looking for another way to educate or influence their colleagues and decision-makers about the need for proactive and effective

EDITOR’S NOTE: On Tuesday of this week, news media organizations were reporting that U.S. intelligence officials delivered a report to both President Barack Obama and