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Preparing leaders, clinicians and technology teams to respond when critical systems are unavailable. Cybersecurity preparedness is not only about preventing an attack. It is about protecting patient care and sustaining essential operations when technology is disrupted. The Leadership Question Artificial intelligence is improving the speed and sophistication with which convincing messages, impersonations and other... READ MORE

Incident-to billing is a long-standing Medicare billing provision that allows services performed by Non-Physician Practitioners (“NPPs”), such as Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants and Clinical Nurse Specialists, to be billed under the National Provider Identifier (“NPI”) of a supervising physician, resulting in reimbursement at 100% of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rather than the 85%... READ MORE

A .PDF version of this Case Study can be accessed HERE. In November 2023, amid a rising wave of cyber threats across the health care industry, Daviess Community Hospital (DCH) responded swiftly to a serious cybersecurity event. As a forward-focused community hospital committed to protecting patient information and operational integrity, DCH leadership immediately sought... READ MORE

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) continues to scrutinize beneficiary transparency, medical necessity and data‑driven oversight of hospital billing and utilization. This scrutiny means continued compliance risk for hospitals. Two long‑standing compliance tools remain especially relevant for hospital leadership: the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (“MOON”) and the Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns... READ MORE