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Archived Issues
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2005-2 February
February 28, 2005
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2005-1 January
January 28, 2005
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2004-5 IRS, Antitrust, Incident To
November 19, 2004
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2004-4 Overtime, Mergers, T&E
October 8, 2004
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2004-3 Household Employee, Fraud, Website, Keep People
May 31, 2004
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2004-2 HIPAA, Stark, Cafe Plans; K Labor
May 16, 2004
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2004-1 Antitrust, Billing & IRS errors, HSAs
March 13, 2004
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2003-8 Health Savings, IRS, Appeals, Pymnt Posting
December 8, 2003
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2003-7 manuals, mgma comp, ftc, hipaa
October 12, 2003
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2003-6 Marketing, Revenues, Negotiation
July 9, 2003
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How Mishandling SSNs Can Land You in Court: If the Social Security Administration (SSA) doesn’t sue you —the employee might
Mishandling Social Security Numbers (SSNs) or reporting an incorrect one for an employee may result in penalties for the employer and lost Social Security benefits for the employee.
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Aggressive Antitrust Enforcement Activity Against Physician Groups Continues In 2005
In an article by Foley & Lardner's healthcare department, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues to take aggressive ac¬tion to prevent non-integrated groups of physicians, using the so called “messenger model,” from negotiating collectively with payors.
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Reviewing Charge Tickets
One part of management’s ongoing practice assessment process is to perform a review of the charge tickets the office uses. This includes the office charge ticket (which almost all practices have) and if applicable, the hospital charge ticket and the surgical charge ticket.
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Are All of Your Business Associate Agreements in Place?
The HIPAA privacy regulations requires that any covered entity must enter in to a business associate agreement with any third party who may have access to a patient's PHI (Protected Health Information). I am finding that many physician practices are not in compliance with this rule. For a sample business associate agreement, go to http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/contractprov.html.
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