CCHIT is the first group to be designated by HHS as a RCB. How’s that for health care acronyms!
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technlogy’s (CCHIT) designation as as a Recognized Certification Body (RCB) will allow for those marketing health IT products to move forward for approval as a certified interoperable product. The article indicates [...]
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HHS designates CCHIT as RCB 
DHHS OIG Issues Open Letter to Health Care Providers
Today the Office of Inspector General, United States Department of Health and Human Services, issued an Open Letter to Health Care Providers discussing the Inspector General’s perspectives on compliance, the resolution of health care fraud cases, issuance of corporate integrty agreements (CIAs), and the OIG’s Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol (SDP).
In addition, the letter announces an initiative [...]
$1.5M Stark and Anti-Kickback Settlement Reached with Pennsylvania Ophthalmologist and Two Hospitals
On August 6, 2004, the U.S. Attorney’s Office issued a press release that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania reached a $1.5 million settlement with an ophthalmologist and the former operators of two hospitals in Pennsylvania based on allegations of improper financial arrangements and referral inducements in violation of the Stark [...]
Hospitals and Physicians should analyze the impact of Stark II
The Stark II Phase II regulations were published as an interim final rule on March 26, 2004 and will become effective on July 26, 2004.
The Stark law (aka federal physician self-referral law) prohibits physicians from referring Medicare patients for certain designated health services (DHS) to an entity with which the physician or a member of [...]
OIG Issues Modified Position on Stark Self Disclosure Protocol
Yesterday the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued an Open Letter to Health Care Providers making several changes to the Self-Dislcosure Protocol relating to the physician self referral law or Stark Law.
The OIG indicates in the letter that they are no longer going to accept under the self disclosure protocol pure Stark related liability [...]