The Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) has just notified providers via their website that there was a delay in uploading names to the Employee Misconduct Registry (EMR) during the period of June 9, ...

Mini graduation cap on US money -- education costs in the design of information related to the cost of education Healthcare providers who did not fulfill their obligations under a student loan, scholarship or loan rep...

Discovering that you’re employing an excluded individual can happen even to the most meticulous in the healthcare industry. How you address this mistake is another thing altogether. Properly addressing the issue means ...

State Medicaid Fraud Control Units are continuing a five-year trend of increasing convictions, civil settlements and exclusions for fraud and abuse. A report, released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ...

The world is still shaking from the recent WannaCry ransomware attack. The largest cyberattack in England’s National Health Service (NHS) history, this virus may cost innocent people their lives as medical institutions...

Late night television host Jimmy Kimmel tearfully told the story of his newborn son’s recent birth and open-heart surgery due to a heart defect. In his monologue, Kimmel explained that it was an attentive nurse that fi...

Scam on red dice   Thousands Hit by OIG Phone Scam All over the country, people have been getting calls from the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG), but they’re actually scam calls ...

Symbol of internet security with binary character hand and padlock The Importance of the Death Master File Ghosting, or stealing the identity of a deceased individual is one of the oldest forms of identity theft....

Click Infographic To Enlarge Here are some interesting takeaways to note: Nurses are still the most excluded among healthcare professionals -- higher than any other group including personal care providers and...