Healthcare Law Insights blog

MAY 4, 2022

In the Federal omnibus spending bill signed in March 2022, Congress extended current Medicare reimbursement waivers applicable to telehealth services for five months beyond the end of the PHE. Congress also directed the OIG to report on program integrity risks and make recommendations to prevent fraud, waste and abuse.

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Mobius MD

MARCH 21, 2025

Healthcare is using large language models (LLMs) to help physicians make decisions, streamline clinical documentation, diagnose medical images, and much more. For example, weve covered how clinicians use AI to streamline clinical documentation and how AI is transforming healthcare behind the scenes. What Are Large Language Models?

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Mobius MD

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Augmedix was one of the early companies to use AI for ambient clinical documentation. Another large player in the ACI space is Nuance, the company behind Dragon Medical Dictation, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2022. How does ambient documentation work? appeared first on Mobius MD.

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The HIPAA Journal

APRIL 29, 2025

A settlement has been agreed to resolve litigation stemming from a 2022 data breach at AllCare Plus Pharmacy. The Northborough, MA-based pharmacy detected the security incident on June 21, 2022, when suspicious activity was identified in an employees email account.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) (2022) estimated over 100,000 registered nurses left the profession and predicted that another 800,000 nurses would follow them by 2027. According to the Joint Commission (2022), 1,441 sentinel events were reported in 2022, a 19% increase from 2021.

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Bell-Brown Medical Institute

JANUARY 16, 2022

3 Most Important factors to consider for medical assistants in 2022 The medical assistant’s role in healthcare has expanded to include more than just patient care. The post 3 Most Important Factors To Consider For Medical Assistants In 2022 appeared first on Bell-Brown Medical Institute.

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 23, 2025

million settlement to resolve claims stemming from a 2022 data breach that affected more than 2 million patients.Shields Health Care is a Massachusetts-based provider of ambulatory surgical center management and medical imaging services throughout New England. Shields Health Care Group has negotiated a $15.35

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

of all claims in the 2022 dataset, compared to 13% in the 2012 dataset. of all allegations against nurse practitioners and continue to be the leading allegation through 2012, 2017, and 2022 datasets. Common missing or incomplete documentation noted in the dataset included: Lack of a complete patient and family history.

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The HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Out of the 17 million MA enrollees, 19,028 enrollees had no other service records at all in 2022 apart from a single HRA. HHS-OIG’s analysis of MA encounter data identified 1.7 million MA enrollees whose diagnoses were only reported using HRAs and HRA-linked chart reviews and did not include any follow-ups. HHS-OIG estimates that around $7.5

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 30, 2025

million to resolve a class action lawsuit that was filed in response to a 2022 hacking incident that affected more than 942,000 individuals. The class consists of individuals who were sent a notification letter about the data breach on August 23, 2022.

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The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

A December 2022 Gartner Market Guide report characterized the long-term potential: The [U]DHP shift will emerge as the most cost-effective and technically efficient way to scale new digital capabilities within and across health ecosystems and will, over time, replace the dominant era of the monolithic electronic health record (EHR).

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2023

The top-line is that 60% of Americans would be uncomfortable with [their health] provider relying on AI in their own care, found in a consumer poll fielded in December 2022 among over11,000 U.S. Pew Research Center has published several analyses based on the data collected in the December 2022 consumer survey. For better and worse.”

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The last official update to apply the inflation increases was in March 2022. The table below lists the 2022 penalties. 2022 HIPAA Penalty Structure. million ($1,919,173 in 2022) should only apply to the most serious Tier 4 violation category. HIPAA Penalties 2022. 2022 HIPAA Fines and Settlements.

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The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

Yet, they continue to frustrate clinicians with poor UI/UX and largely fulfill a primary role as a system of record to document claims submissions. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were once touted as the key solution for transforming healthcare to a modern, digitally-enabled industry.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2023

The report reviews the literature which has already recognized the link between pet ownership and improved health conditions and outcomes for pet owners, documenting the growth of pet ownership int he U.S. through the pandemic during which one-sixth of pet owners obtained a new pet.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The green circle diagram from Deloitte’s report documents a growing willingness among patients to use virtual health services, increasing from 80% of consumers willing to use telehealth in 2020, 84% in 2022, and 94% in 2024.

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Scrubs

APRIL 20, 2023

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing stated that close to 91,938 qualified applicants were denied the baccalaureate nursing programs during 2021 and 2022. It will bring down the scope of human errors, for instance, administering medications and documenting patient data.

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We Care Online

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

While your work experience section is typically the most important part of the document, adding volunteer experience in your resume can help you plug gaps in your work experience and include skills that would otherwise be missing.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

Benefits of Outsourced Software Product Development Cost Efficiency According to Deloittes 2022 Global Outsourcing Survey, 57percent of executives cite cost reduction as the primary driver for traditional outsourcing, typically via staff augmentation for transactional business and IT activities.

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ACMA Blog

JULY 9, 2024

Between 2013 and 2022, about 10% of rural independent retail pharmacies closed. These types of pharmacies are privately-owned (read: not owned or operated by a publicly traded company or PBM) businesses that deliver a different level of personalized care and service to patients. OptumRx, Inc., Humana Pharmacy Solutions, Inc.,

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JUNE 10, 2024

From 2020 to 2022, CityMD falsely documented insured patients as uninsured before fraudulently billing the federal government for their COVID-19 care, according to regulators. CityMD denies the allegations.

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Intercoast

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It can help reduce isolation, increase self-esteem, improve coping skills, and more (NAMI, 2022). Benefits of Peer Support The advantages of peer support in the mental health field are well-documented and substantial. Furthermore, it has been found to enhance patient satisfaction (Davidson et al., Peer Support Specialists. link] CBHDA.

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MedCerts

APRIL 8, 2024

MS 2000: Microsoft Office Series I: This two-week course focuses on creating, editing and enhancing Word and Excel documents. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), this path could see 6% growth between 2022 and 2032, which is faster than average. The course uses 3D and augmented reality (AR) simulations for immersive learning.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2025

According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), nursing schools turned away thousands of qualified applicants in 2022, with “insufficient clinical placement sites” cited as a primary barrier.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The combined efforts stem from NCNA’s newest strategic priority of “Relentless Inclusion,” first championed in 2022 by Immediate Past President Meka D. Some anonymous quotes from NCNA members include: “A humbling document to read, pierced by a ray of hope that the document was finally penned and unabashedly shared with all NCNA members.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 30, 2024

While the study’s press release asserts there may be “progress” given the percent of doctors citing burnout fell by 4 percentage points from 53% of doctors in 2022 to 49% in 2023, it is obvious the U.S. What factors have most contributed?

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Health Prime

JULY 27, 2023

According to a 2022 AMA prior authorization (PA) physician survey , physicians and their staff spend an average of almost two business days (13 hours) each week completing prior authorizations. Above all, familiarize yourself with the specific prior authorization forms, submission procedures, and documentation requirements.

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2023

Despite the risks, 90% of respondents admitted to reusing passwords for multiple accounts, up from 85% in 2022. While password manager use is increasing – 84% of respondents said they use a password manager at work – 54% of respondents said they store passwords in a document on their computer, and 29% write their passwords down.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

million healthcare and social assistance employees quit their jobs between April and August 2022. Plus, with paper, you spend more time filing and organizing your documentation. And you risk misplacing documents when you need them most — at survey time. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics , more than 2.6

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

JUNE 28, 2024

The long, somewhat tedious recovery from the COVID pandemic was jolted by the introduction of ChatGPT (a chatbot and virtual assistant developed by OpenAI) in late 2022 and its widespread expansion ever since. RAG (retrieval augmented generation) is a way to provide documents or outside information to AI systems.

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Arkenea

JULY 12, 2024

According to the United States Census Bureau, more people were insured in 2022 than 2021. In 2022, 92.1 The Census Bureau further reveals that in 2022, private health insurance coverage continued to be more prevalent than public coverage, at 65.6 percent of people, or 304.0 percent and 36.1 percent , respectively.

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ACMA Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This process can include patient demographics, charts, labs, and any clinical documentation that will aid in proving the necessity of the medication or service. This can include verifying information with the pharmacy and obtaining all required documentation from the patient’s health record, as mentioned above. Dixson, Kiana.

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Mobius MD

MARCH 13, 2024

At a time when many providers spend over 15 hours weekly on data entry, efficient medical dictation is one of the best ways to streamline documentation. Mobile dictation can turn documentation time into a meaningful patient interaction , ensure accuracy, and save hours weekly. Put simply, talking is faster than typing.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Primary care practices have a median of 24% of their accounts receivable (A/R) over 120 days old, according to MGMA’s 2022 Cost and Revenue Survey. At the same time, payer changes are happening more often, reimbursement is taking longer, and claim errors are increasing, according to the State of Claims 2022 report from Experian.

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Health Prime

JULY 27, 2023

According to a 2022 AMA prior authorization (PA) physician survey , physicians and their staff spend an average of almost two business days (13 hours) each week completing prior authorizations. Above all, familiarize yourself with the specific prior authorization forms, submission procedures, and documentation requirements.

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ACMA Blog

JUNE 25, 2024

This process can include patient demographics, charts, labs, and any clinical documentation that will aid in proving the necessity of the medication or service. This can include verifying information with the pharmacy and obtaining all required documentation from the patient’s health record, as mentioned above. Dixson, Kiana.

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