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Medical Identity Theft: Everything Patient's and Practice's Need to Know

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When you think of a data breach, your mind might go to credit card fraud or identity theft in general. Medical identity theft, although not as common, proves to be a dangerous reality when it comes to healthcare data breaches. Whether it’s from a large-scale breach or the theft of an individual’s data.

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How to Detect Frauds in Medical Billing Effectively?

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Fraudulent medical billing services are a sort of white-collar crime. Any act of intentional deviation/misrepresentation of data is medical fraud. Well, we have a simple solution to avoid such things, i.e., depend on medical billing outsourcing companies. However, medical billing audits can help resolve the issue.

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5 Things Medical Billing Companies Must Know for HIPAA Compliance in 2023

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So, medical billing outsourcing companies must also revise their HIPAA strategies. It is none other than medical billing outsourcing companies on the back. In this blog, we will take a look at trends medical billing services must adhere to in 2023 to stay compliant. And who helps them in doing so?

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7 Infamous Examples Healthcare Fraud in Florida

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As you’ll learn from reading this blog, fraud by medical professionals can mimic legitimate transactions from insurers to providers. Healthcare Fraud in Florida January 2023 - Michael Ligotti Michael Ligotti was a medical director for over 50 addiction treatment facilities, also known as “sober homes'', in Palm Beach County.

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8 Real HIPAA Violation Examples and Their Consequences

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In other words, healthcare workers aren’t allowed to talk about you or your medical situation without your consent. Not only that but it exposed people's medical charts and files, stuff that falls under the Minimum Necessary Standard. Especially if your argument involves the patient’s medical condition. Table of Contents.

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13 Most Common HIPAA Violations: Unmasked

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a topic we go over quite regularly in this blog. In this blog, we will be going over some of the most common HIPAA violations as it relates to Protected Health Information (PHI). Disclosures following theft or loss of data. Well, you would be wrong.

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+75 HIPAA Violation Statistics: When Cybersecurity Compromises PHI

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For the scope of this blog, an insider threat is a person in the healthcare organization who has access to electronic PHI, or ePHI, and uses this information to negatively impact the healthcare provider. HIPAA Journal - Healthcare Data Breach Report US ) 67% of breaches against healthcare entities involve compromised medical information.