COVID LEGAL EXPOSURE

Non-healthcare providers not entitled to immunity from legal action

Assisted living communities not immune from COVID lawsuits. Therefore, a wrongful death lawsuit alleging failure to comply with COVID-19 protocols can move forward after a circuit court judge ruled that assisted living communities are not healthcare providers and therefore not entitled to immunity from such legal action.

In his Dec. 4 ruling, Judge Douglas L. Fleming Jr. of the Loudoun County Circuit Court found that assisted living communities are not healthcare providers because they are not licensed as nursing homes or hospitals, nor do they employ licensed healthcare providers to “primarily” render healthcare services.

The Excelas, LLC Comprehensive Integrated Timeline Tool incorporates your organization’s COVID19 response and patient / resident medical record chronology into Federal and State Guidance Timelines.
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HEALTHCARE FRAUD

Healthcare fraud to remain a priority for DOJ

The healthcare fraud unit at the Department of Justice’s Criminal Fraud Section is planning for substantial growth in the coming months according to a leader of the Medicare Fraud Strike Force.

The healthcare fraud unit already employs more criminal healthcare prosecutors than many U.S. Attorneys’ offices have attorneys. Healthcare providers can take from this announcement that the federal government’s investment in healthcare fraud enforcement will continue to grow, and its focus on these issues will remain sharp. Healthcare and life sciences companies should ensure that their own investment in compliance infrastructure and personnel aligns with the investment being made by the government to rout out fraud and abuse.

Complying with audit and survey requests can place demands on already stretched human and financial resources. Excelas, LLC works to support the regulatory audit and survey process with services geared toward ensuring an expedient and complete response to the challenges at hand.

MEDICAL RECORD RETRIEVAL

Meet record request timelines and project deadlines with confidence

Even with the efficiency of electronic medical records (EMR) systems, medical record retrieval and organization can be tedious and time-consuming. Our certified health information specialists remove this burden from busy legal teams and healthcare professionals, so they can focus their efforts where they are needed most.

The staff at Excelas, LLC is driven by their mission to positively impact the way healthcare is delivered. By taking on the complex and laborious task of medical record organization and analysis, we help keep our clients’ resources invested where they belong — in patient care.

How it works
– While patients may obtain credentials for direct access to their medical records, healthcare providers typically have designated personnel who retrieve and produce responsive records in response to HIPAA-compliant requests. Excelas provides cost-effective assistance with retrieval to providers, especially those who may have limited resources or experience high turnover.

– Excelas can identify records that may be missing, such as paper documents that are not included with the online records, so the provider has an opportunity to ensure the production of complete records.

– Some charts include hundreds or even thousands of pages of medical records. Excelas can eliminate duplicates and organize the records to facilitate the efficient identification of key documents.

– Excelas Bates labels the documents so they can be hyperlinked to reports, such as chronologies, to assist in understanding a patient’s course of treatment.

– Excelas offers a secure portal for remote access by multiple authorized representatives simultaneously to collaborate in reviewing the records.

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EXCELAS TEAM

Cheers to the New Year!

It’s always wonderful to get the Excelas, LLC team together to celebrate the holidays. Here’s to a peaceful, productive and prosperous 2024.

EXCELAS METRICS

December 2023 Performance Metrics

As of December 31, 2023 Exceals LLC customized solutions included:

19,128,812 Pages
14,268 Records/Cases reviewed
381 Clients & firms supported