Click Here to view a replay of the How to Avoid Penalties by Understanding and Reducing Your Hospital Readmission Rates webinar. The CMS readmission penalty is up to 1% of all Medicare IPPS payments in FFY 2013 climbing to 3% in 2015. Hospitals with higher readmission performance as compared to expected readmissions will face millions in lost payments.

Click Here to view a replay of the Easing the Information Security Compliance Burden for Health Care webinar. This webinar will cover the massive Health Care IT transformation currently underway and how this impacts health care information security compliance. Feisal will cover Health Care IT Audit / Compliance requirements, security and mapping security to various compliance requirements. Review the compelling needs for using a framework to manage the process and a strategy for executing within the framework.

Click Here to view a replay of the "Surviving and Thriving in the Age of Healthcare Audit Accountability" Webinar!

Click Here to view a replay of the Webinar! Meaningful Use, HIPAA, State regulations and many other standards require a risk assessment as part of compliance. But what comes after the risk assessment? How do organizations take what they have learned about their environment and risks and turn that into an actionable and appropriate plan for remediation?

Because the CMS Manuals are so critical to compliance, coding, reimbursement, and audit, it is important to understand what is going on with the manual format, transmittals links and changes. I hope this mini-tutorial helps.

CMS Publications

Medicare makes available on its website 2 publications: 1 - Transmittals, which are CHANGES to the Pub 100 "Internet Only" Manuals, or IOMs.2 - Copies of the CURRENT versions of the manual, broken down by Chapter, in PDF format.

Click Here to view a replay of the Webinar!  Compliance Officers are active participants in their organization's efforts to achieve Meaningful Use and meet the CMS goals to improve quality, engage patients and families, improve care coordination, improve public health, and ensure adequate privacy and security protections for personal health information.