Effective Compliance with HIPAA Requires More Than Initial Training By: David S. Barmak, JD Although your facility may have had a HIPAA Privacy training program,… 

Reporting Quality Concerns: Reality at 3:00 A.M. By: David S. Barmak, JD I am a compliance attorney. At 3:00 a.m. I in-serviced a group of… 

Benefits of Implementing an Effective Risk Management Program By: David S. Barmak, JD Med-Net Healthcare Consulting, LLC, provided a formal risk management program for a… 

Compliance Officer Q&A By: David S. Barmak, JD To gain a better understanding of the scope of an effective corporate compliance and ethics program, consider… 

The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute: Healthcare Compliance and Ethics By: David S. Barmak, JD The Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act… 

Post-Acute Long-Term Care Fraud Investigations By: David S. Barmak, JD A post-acute long-term care Compliance and Ethics Program investigation is only as good as the… 

Privilege for Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) Documents and Reports By: David S. Barmak, JD The Affordable Care Act (ACA) authorizes the Centers for Medicare… 

Anti-Kickback Statute: Admissions Personnel By: David S. Barmak, JD If I refer you to a hardware store and the hardware store pays me $50 for…