Understanding the Importance of Medicare Cost Report Accuracy

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Medicare cost reports are the backbone of hospital, skilled nursing facility, home health agencies, and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) reimbursements—yet errors can slip through, leading to costly corrections. Audit results released in August 2025 by the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) uncovered exactly that: cost reports settled by Novitas Solutions, Inc. via their desk review process were later reopened due to “obvious errors,” resulting in nearly $9.4 million in corrective…

Clinical Plagiarism: A Silent Threat to Documentation Integrity

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Let’s Talk About the Elephant in the EHR You’re behind on documentation. The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is blinking at you. You’ve got another patient waiting, and the temptation to copy-paste from a previous visit, or borrow a colleague’s phrasing, is strong. It’s familiar, it’s fast, and it feels harmless. But when documentation starts sounding like a rerun, we’re not just cutting corners, we’re putting compliance, credibility, and patient safety on the line. Clinical documentation…

Telehealth Reset: What September 30, 2025 Means for Compliance and Care

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When Mrs. Smith’s twice-weekly home telehealth check-ins stopped being clearly reimbursable, her clinic had only a few hours to figure out whether visits should move to in-person or risk denied claims. That is the real-world choice facing thousands of clinicians and compliance teams now that the Public Health Emergency (PHE) telehealth flexibilities waiver has expired due to no resolution and a government shutdown at midnight on September 30, 2025. Congressional actions failed to pass H.R.…