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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
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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Terminating a physician-patient relationship is fraught with dangers that can land you in serious legal and financial hot water. When you “fire” a patient, they can easily feel neglected, discarded, and discriminated against. This is what typically drives a patient to accuse you of abandonment. And if this happens, you can count on ending up in a legal and financial nightmare […]
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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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How you bill your self-pay patients is about so much more than just getting paid. Get it wrong and you could be facing significant penalties related to multiple state and federal law violations. Any one of the numerous regulations that govern how you bill your self-pay patients could easily land you in serious financial and legal trouble – Medicare, Stark, […]
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