CMS removing SSNs from Medicare cards
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be removing social security numbers from all Medicare cards to lessen seniors’ vulnerability to identity...
Updated HIPAA security risk analysis tool
The Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT and the Office for Civil Rights recently posted an updated HIPAA security risk analysis tool....
OIG issues report on election statements, terminal illness certifications
The Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (OIG) has released a report calling on hospices to improve their election statements...
CMS Rural Health Solutions Summit planned for Oct. 19
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is planning a CMS Rural Health Solutions Summit on Oct. 19 at its headquarters in Baltimore....
CMS creates toolkit for Medicaid provider enrollment requirements
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has created the Medicaid Provider Enrollment Requirements (MPE) Toolkit to update providers enrolling or re-enrolling in...
State lists of 15 most common languages made available for ACA Section 1557 compliance
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of Civil Rights has posted new FAQs for compliance with Section 1557 of the Affordable...
Rep. Noem’s IHS reform bill receives Ways and Means Committee approval
With recruitment of quality medical staff being one of the top challenges within Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities in South Dakota, the House Ways...
Moratorium legislative committee holds third meeting
The third meeting of the Regulation on Nursing and Assisted Living Beds Study was held on Sept. 8 in Pierre. As a part of...
CMS to give clinicians more options to comply with MACRA in 2017
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andrew Slavitt said in a blog post Thursday that the agency will give physicians and...
CMS officials meet with SDAHO, member facilities on rural health care
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Health Insurance Specialist Ceilly Robl and Associate Regional Administrator John Hannigan met with SDAHO leadership at the...
