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Ashley is Assistant General Counsel at a large hospital network in Columbus, Ohio. Prior to this, Ashley was a healthcare attorney in BMD’s Columbus office. She worked with nonprofit and for-profit health care providers, health care trade associations, individuals, and businesses. Ashley is experienced in healthcare public policy and regulatory compliance, legislative and government affairs, grant administration, and healthcare program operations.
Training Sessions by Ashley Watson
Collecting money from patients is essential to keeping your practice in the black—but not every billing and collection strategy is compliant. In fact, some common approaches can land your practice in serious legal trouble. The reality? Many practices are mishandling patient collections in ways that violate federal laws. From misapplying Good Faith Estimate (GFE) requirements, to waiving the wrong copays, […]
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Get ahead of 2025 compliance changes and avoid costly mistakes with this brand-new 3-part HIPAA compliance training series—designed exclusively for medical practices like yours. Inside this series, four healthcare compliance experts, Iliana Peters, Brian L. Tuttle, Daphne Kackloudis, and Ashley Watson, will provide you with clear, actionable steps to: Text patients without violating HIPAA Implement 2025’s updated Security & Privacy […]
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Writing off patient copays and offering colleagues professional courtesy discounts can quickly make you an OIG target. The problem is that both federal and state professional courtesy and patient hardship discounting laws are complex and confusing, and there are about a million ways to violate them. Sure, there are legitimate reasons for you to waive patient copays or write off […]
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Failing to follow medical records destruction rules can cost you up to $50,000 per violation. Recent changes by the Supreme Court now require you to keep records for 10 years instead of 6, unless your state demands more. This means you need to update how you manage, store, and destroy records to avoid hefty HIPAA penalties. Both paper and digital […]
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