J'non Griffin's Weekly Compliance Report

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) are working to meet timelines for compliance with new certification criteria based on their CCBHC expansion grant status and state demonstration pilot requirements. Revised certification criteria was issued by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in March 2023.

You’ve done your homework, appointed a HIPAA Privacy Officer, ensured regular HIPAA training takes place, reviewed all the HIPAA privacy, security, and administrative data standards set out by the OCR. But how would your organization’s policies hold up under the scrutiny of a HIPAA audit?

Behavior health providers doing business with Medicare Advantage need to shore up their clinical documentation with greater diagnosis specificity and accurate documentation as they face a new type of audit.

If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve noticed more than a few signs that regulatory scrutiny has been tightening for all healthcare providers since 2022. Now, as we head into 2024, behavioral health providers in particular are facing the hot seat due to major changes affecting compliance.