Overview of Telehealth Rules, Extensions, and the Future of the Program
As of March 28, 2025, recent legislative actions have extended several telehealth flexibilities within the Medicare program.
10 Best Practices for Employee Training in Healthcare
An effective staff training program is the foundation that allows healthcare organizations to foster a culture of competence, compliance, and quality care. Elevate your healthcare team with these key strategies from our experts at First Healthcare Compliance.
Workplace Violence Prevention in Healthcare: Ensuring Safety for Patients and Staff
Workplace violence is a serious concern in the healthcare industry, posing significant risks to both patients and healthcare professionals. Learn about the challenges faced by healthcare professionals when it comes to workplace violence and gain strategies to mitigate and prevent these incidents.
Maintaining the Health of Your Radiology Information System (RIS)
A healthy RIS is a critical component of a healthcare facility. Make sure that yours is working the way it should to avoid lost reimbursement and reduce the risk of compliance issues.
Exclusion Screening Requirements for Healthcare Entities: Ensuring Compliance and Protecting Your Organization
In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare regulations, one crucial aspect that healthcare entities must prioritize is exclusion screening.
Big Changes in 2023 for Ambulatory Surgery Centers
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have created over 50 new C-codes (C7500–C7555) for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) that affect many procedures. These codes were created to allow additional payment for packaged services for ASCs.
Is Your Staff Struggling with How to Bill Lab Services? 4 Steps to Better Results
If your organization is struggling with coding laboratory services consistently and accurately, here are the four steps you need to take.
The Top 3 Compliance and Auditing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Compliance and auditing offer an opportunity for continuous improvement. Done right they help organizations better serve patients, mitigate risk and exposure, and improve reimbursement and revenue. But what constitutes doing it right? This article discusses the three most common mistakes.
Is Automation the Answer in Auditing?
Ask Kathy Pride, and she’ll tell you: there are two ways for healthcare providers to perform proactive auditing of their claims.
There’s the old way—and there’s the better way.
The Executive Vice President of Coding & Documentation for Panacea Healthcare Solutions laid it all out during a recent presentation titled “How to Optimize Auditing Resources Using Automation.” Read more
What’s on Your 2021 OIG Compliance Greatest Hits List?
Compliance plans are critical to making sure your organization is mitigating risk. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recommends that you audit a minimum of 10 professional encounters per year, per physician – but if you’re not going above and beyond that by performing focused audits, you’re putting your practice at risk by ignoring everything else (not to mention, you may be missing opportunities by under-coding). Read more
