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R E Stromberg

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Medicare and Medicaid anti-fraud and abuse amendments explained.

Neither the amendments nor proposed HHS regulations yet offer clear and complete interpretations of the amendments' penalty and disclosure provisions/Hospitals must keep updated as interpretations develop through judicial decisions and governmental actions.

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The tug-of-war over medical records disclosure.

Consensus is that a balance must be attained between the third-party payer's need for medical record data and the patient's right to confidentiality. Current trends in legislation, as discussed in this article, are toward "truly informed," written consent when the information identifies the patient and strictly controlled redisclosure procedures.

Confidentiality↗