In a session at the Becker’s Hospital Review 4th Annual Meeting in Chicago on May 10, Carol Conley, director of audit and compliance for CoxHealth in Springfield, Mo., asked attendees to reexamine ...

Every audit requires dedicated time, precise coordination and extensive resources. Audit firms work with many clients and schedule their people and resources months in advance of the actual audit. If ...

Internal Audit identifies all auditable activities and relevant risk factors, and assesses their significance through an annual risk assessment, utilizing the Committee of Sponsoring Organization's ...

Coding experts agree that ASCs should conduct regular audits of their coding processes to ensure the ASC is not upcoding, a possible fraud issue, or downcoding, leading to a loss of owed reimbursement ...

An audit report is a document created by a professional auditor at the conclusion of the auditing process. It provides a detailed summery of each of her findings. Audits are conducted for a variety of ...

State insurance regulatory agencies typically require all title insurance companies to conduct and submit the results of an annual compliance audit. The goal is to make sure title companies record and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Evaluation and management coding patterns are under the microscope. CMS is monitoring evaluation and management ...

Here’s why it’s important to conduct a content audit — and a step-by-step guide on how to do it effectively. A content audit is an in-depth analysis of previously published, or “old,” content that ...

In this, the first in a two-part series, we walk through the initial steps businesses need to take to mobilize their data: a data audit and data consolidation. It has been argued that “data is the ...

Each year, the Chief Audit Officer develops an audit plan for the University. Using a risk-based methodology, and in collaboration with University leadership, the Chief Audit Officer analyzes ...

Annual Audit Plan – An annual audit plan is developed by the Director of Internal Audit based on a university-wide assessment of risk and where Internal Audit can make the greatest impact. Input from ...