As health plans attempt to measure the acuity of new patients through the Affordable Care Act’s healthcare marketplace exchange, hospital audit teams will see a huge influx of commercial risk ...

Audits provide small businesses with third-party opinions on business or financial operations. A common type of audit in business is the financial audit. Business owners use public accounting firms or ...

Our first article in this series discussed the reasons and benefits of performing project audits. This follow-up article discusses the types of audits and ties back to the first article's specific ...

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If your company gets an unqualified audit opinion, that's good news. It doesn't mean the auditor's unqualified, it means they've gone over your financial statements and have no reservations: your ...

Because Medicare and Medicaid claims audit requests can look like routine billing-related correspondence, they can be easy to miss, leading to expensive and potentially catastrophic consequences.

The MU audit escalation is of particular concern for health systems with numerous providers and complex organizational structures. They are especially vulnerable to being audited and failing an audit.