Blog - Monthly archives: February 2016

Lincare, a major provider of in-home respiratory care and other services, will pay $238,900 in civil monetary penalties for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), federal authorities announced Wednesday.  The civil monetary penalty was challenged, but now has been upheld by an administrate law judge (ALJ). The Breach Incident at Lincare’s Wynne Read more →

Tags : HIPAA compliance

On February 9, 2016, the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit determined that a District Court has jurisdiction to order HHS to address the significant backlog in the Medicare appeals process.  This decision follows an appeal to the U.S. District Court of Appeals by the American Hospital Association, which brought Read more →

Tags : medicaid audit