Today, health care fraud is all over the news. There undoubtedly is fraud in health care. The same is true for every business or endeavor touched by human hands, e.g. banking, credit, insurance, politics, etc. There is no question that health care providers who abuse their position and our trust to steal are a problem. [...]
Established in the year 1996, the HIPAA is an act that proposed and did set up a few regulations and laws to defend the privacy of an individual’s medical records. Initiated by the Department of Health and Human Services, the act controls and makes it illegal to distribute and transmittal of a patient’s private information [...]
What is natures laws? And why should I care about natures laws? Nature’s laws is what will make or break us. If we don’t live by natures laws we will pay the ultimate price. Natures laws don’t care who you are, how much money you have, how good you are. If you go against the [...]
The First Few Years of State-Run Health Insurance Regulations Although regulations relating to health insurance were identified and put forward by Congress as far back as the 1930s and 1940s, they were never ratified at that time. On the other hand, the 1965 Social Security Amendments Act brought about Medicare to take care of the [...]
Millions of Americans are now working as independent contractors. It saves companies money, and can be very rewarding for the worker. Contractors are responsible for obtaining their own health insurance, for one thing. Unfortunately, a portion of that population is incorrectly classified. How can you know the difference, and how can you find affordable insurance [...]
A ruling, on the books since 1972, called the Safe Harbor Provisions states, in part, “the federal anti-kickback law’s main purpose is to protect patients and the federal health care programs from fraud and abuse by curtailing the corrupting influence of money on health care decisions”… it goes on to say, … “anyone who knowingly [...]
The stringent HIPAA security compliance norms, make it mandatory for the all the entities like hospitals, insurance providers, payers, billing services, insurance plans and medical personnel to strictly adhere to the laws relating to the safe transfer and storage of confidential patient health information. To achieve HIPAA security compliance it is necessary to implement few [...]
Massachusetts has become the first state in the nation to make having health insurance coverage mandatory to all residents. Because of the growing number of Americans with out health insurance, the state of Massachusetts has enacted law which requires all residents to have health insurance coverage. Affordable Massachusetts Individual Health Insurance Plans Because of this [...]
What does the FMLA law stands for? It stands for The Family And Medical Leave Act. The FMLA law states that any emplyer anywhere in the US must grant its employees up to twelve weeks of unpaid leave within a 12 month period and have the right to be brought back to the job with [...]
When the Health Insurance and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was signed into a law, it has created improvements on health insurance, and the most significant adjustment made was the tax deduction for long-term care insurance policies. The HIPAA added the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 7702B that mandates all long term care insurance contracts to be [...]