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Two incidents at a health center operated by New York-based St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center show that sending a fax can turn an act that should have cost the organization a few cents into a settlement that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

If someone uses fake ID at your practice, you can tell the cops all about it -- but release the alleged perp's name to the press and you may get a $2.4 million fine.

Looks like the Trump administration is going full speed ahead with Office of Civil Rights (OCR) prosecution of HIPAA breaches as yet another provider gets dinged with a multimillion-dollar settlement.

The Trump administration has postponed the debut of four new payment models that appear to conflict with the health care philosophy of new HHS Secretary Tom Price.

In the regulatory update in our March 13 issue of Part B News, Ann Marie Edwards, CEO of Alliance Cancer Specialists PC in Philadelphia, talks about the hardship the Obamacare “grace period” puts on her practice and how she hopes the Republican repeal-and-replace bill, the American Health Care Act, will solve it. To follow are some of her further thoughts on that bill.

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