By TDMR President Gregory Ewing On September 7, 2017, Equifax, one of the nation’s three credit-reporting companies reported that it had discovered a cybersecurity breach that compromised the personal information of as many as 143 million Americans, roughly half of … Read More
A colleague at Compliance Shield was recently talking with a physician about our 2-day intensive “train the compliance officer” workshop and on the importance of having a compliance program. To which the physician responded, “Tell me why I should be … Read More
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission made $377 million in Medicaid electronic health record incentive payments to hospitals in 2011 and 2012, but at least $12.5 million of that was made in violation of state and federal regulations, according … Read More
Cancer Care Group, P.C. agreed to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR). Cancer … Read More
This past Friday at the Leon Valley Conference Center in San Antonio, Star Compliance Services and TDMR held our third healthcare compliance seminar, following our recent successful seminar in Houston and the earlier one held in February at Weslaco. Gregory … Read More
Attorney General Joseph A. Foster announced on June 25, 2015, that the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) of the Department of Justice had reached a settlement with Dr. Eyad Almahayni, DMD, to resolve allegations about his dental practice, according to a … Read More
Texas Dentists for Medicaid Reform assisted Star Compliance Services this past Friday to hold a one-day healthcare compliance seminar in Houston at the Norris Conference Center – City Centre. It is the first in a series of seminars that were … Read More
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently issued an interesting decision concerning the definition of “referral” in the context of federal anti-kickback laws. See U.S. v. Patel, No. 14–2607, 2015 WL 527549 (7th Cir. 2015). In … Read More
This past Friday, TDMR and the Medicaid Providers Alliance held a successful health care compliance seminar at the Knapp Medical Conference Center in Weslaco. A room-capacity 72 dental providers attended and were informed that the Academy of General Dentistry had … Read More
Two entities have paid the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) $1,975,220 collectively to resolve potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules. These major enforcement actions … Read More
TDMR presents the second in a series of articles on health care compliance penned by TDMR President Greg Ewing. Greg is a health care lawyer with over fifteen years of experience in transactional health law; health information technology; privacy and security … Read More
TDMR is pleased to present the first in a series of articles on health care compliance penned by TDMR President Greg Ewing. Greg is a health care lawyer with over fifteen years of experience in transactional health law; health information technology; … Read More
