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Reporting therapy services remains something of a quagmire for many physician practices, as CMS noted in a recent transmittal that amounts to a "signal across the bow of the ship."

You'd think if there were anyone whose health information should be protected, it would be people with HIV. Yet Aetna admits to exposing data indicative of both the HIV status and risk of thousands of its beneficiaries with a poorly designed envelope.

The team at Part B News and its sibling publications do more than write articles; it also answers subscriber questions, which it turns into more articles. Here's a sample of the questions we've received recently.

The feds' dishonor roll of entities that have sustained a HIPAA breach of 500 individuals or more has topped 2,000 for the first time.

Practices don't expect sales pitches from someone who's related to one of their providers. But that's just one way Global Compounding Pharmacy, a Haleyville, Ala.-based company, encouraged its sales representatives to boost sales.

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