Staffing shortages are among the daily challenges facing healthcare organizations as the pandemic drags on. No department is unaffected; providers, pharmacists, nurses,...

Martie Ross, Office Managing Principal, PYA

The Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association recently convened its Healthcare Legal Compliance Forum to update members on key areas of regulatory change, compliance and...

A patient comes in for knee surgery. The surgery is performed at the in-network hospital by an in-net-work orthopedic surgeon – meaning both the hospital and the surgeon are...

We tend to focus internally when we think about information blocking compliance. What do WE need to do to comply? What IT policies and systems are required? How do we protect...

Information-blocking compliance is like a jigsaw puzzle. It’s got many different pieces requiring collaboration across Information Technology (IT), Health Information Management...

While the Stark Law may be keeping legal, compliance and risk professionals up at night, few patients are aware that it even exists. This is ironic, because one primary driver...

The Stark Law creates a whole set of antikickback rules that providers must understand and actively work to comply with. And with all its good intentions, the Stark Law is...

Patients and providers alike flocked to telehealth in 2020. Before the COVID-19 pandemic began, fewer than one percent of Medicare primary care visits (PCV) were conducted via...

With vaccine rates up and COVID infection rates down, healthcare organizations are anticipating the end of the federal public health emergency (PHE) sometime soon and the...