In OIG Advisory Opinion 14-06, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) concluded that payment by a specialty pharmacy to a retail pharmacy on a “per-fill” basis for services provided by the retail pharmacy could violate the Anti Kickback Statute and Civil Money Penalty provisions.
The specialty pharmacy, as the requestor, proposed to pay retail…
Community Health Systems announced today, August 18th, that hackers broke into its computers and stole data on 4.5 million patients. The information included names, Social Security numbers, physical addresses, birthdays and telephone numbers. More information on the breach is available at http://money.cnn.com/2014/08/18/technology/security/hospital-chs-hack/index.html
It is ironic to learn the Office of Inspector General (OIG) believes the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) essentially has an insufficient compliance program to maintain the privacy and security of the protected health information (PHI) hosted by electronic health records (EHR).
In an August 2014 report (A-06-11-00063), OIG concluded…
