CMS’ proposed changes to implement Section 603 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 and reshape payments for off-campus, provider-based departments represent the most significant changes in the current year 2017 OPPS proposed rule.
The growing consumer health app and wearable device market poses a significant threat to the privacy and security of protected health information (PHI) and Congress must act to close policy gaps, the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) said in a recent report.
CMS has proposed several changes for status and comment indicators in the 2017 OPPS proposed rule in an attempt to better identify codes and services for providers.
A far-right Ukrainian group recently hacked an Ohio urology group. On August 2, screenshots of protected health information (PHI) and a link to a Google Drive folder containing an additional 150 GB of PHI and financial and human resource data belonging to Central Ohio Urology Group were posted to the Twitter page of a group claiming allegiance with Pravy Sektor, a right-wing political group based in Ukraine.
A Chicago-based healthcare system agreed to the largest HIPAA settlement fine against a single entity, HHS announced August 4. Advocate Health Care Network will pay $5.55 million to settle three separate potential HIPAA breaches.
The Office for Civil Rights released HIPAA phase two guidance July 27. The guidance, a document linking specific audit protocols with document submission requests, included the slide deck from a July 13 webinar for covered entities selected for desk audits, and a list of questions and answered asked during the webinar and via email.
Reconciliation is a noun meaning "the process of finding a way to make two different ideas, facts, etc. exist or be true at the same time." In the world of clinical documentation improvement (CDI), "reconciliation" typically refers to diagnosis-related group (DRG) reconciliation, which is the process of adjusting DRGs when those assigned by the CDI specialist do not match those assigned by the coder.
