Compliance:
Keep Your Texting In Compliance With Recently Clarified Medicare Guidance
Published on Fri Jan 12, 2018
Texting physician orders is never OK, CMS stresses. Unsecured texting may be one of the most pervasive threats to health care providers' compliance with both the Conditions of Participation and HIPAA rules, and home care companies are particularly vulnerable to the weak spot due to their mobile staff. For years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, accrediting body The [...]