HIPAA Breach Notification Letter

If your healthcare organization experienced a HIPAA breach, one of the mandatory responses includes a HIPAA Breach Notification Letter to notify the individuals affected by the breach. In this Article…

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Strategic Trends in Healthcare 2020

What are the important strategic trends in healthcare in 2020?  The healthcare industry is constantly changing and 2020 will be no exception. New technologies are creating change from artificial intelligence…

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CMS Value-Based Payment Goals

In April of 2019, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it is rolling out a new set of CMS value-based payment goals. It’s called the CMS Primary…

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Healthcare Recruitment Strategies

Employees represent the foundation of every healthcare operation, and thus, effective healthcare recruitment strategies are a fundamental component of every successful operation.  As a service-oriented industry, healthcare depends on the…

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What Does HIPAA Compliance Mean?

What exactly is HIPAA, and what does HIPAA compliance mean? Healthcare providers and their business associates are aware of the importance of maintaining HIPAA compliance. However, understanding the complete guidelines…

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Pay-for-Performance-Reimbursement

In this post, we explain “pay for performance reimbursement”, what it is, and how it measures quality of care. Then we’ll explore some working examples. The concept of this method…

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HIPAA Compliance Requirements

HIPAA settlement payments hit an all-time high in 2018 following year-long HIPAA compliance requirements audits conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. These monetary…

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Outcome-Based Reimbursement

A lot is said these days about Outcome-Based Reimbursement in healthcare. But what exactly is that, and how does it work? Let’s take a look. Five years ago, most of…

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Healthcare Revenue Cycle Process

The healthcare revenue cycle process is a non-organic process – non-organic because steps cannot be reversed, skipped or circumvented to save time or collect money faster. Missing or skipping a…

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Starting a Medical Tourism Business

Starting a medical tourism business is not easy, but mounting changes and regulations in western healthcare systems have prompted a boom in medical tourism. In fact, according to a recent…

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