News & Analysis

May 1, 2011
Case Management Monthly

Jackie Birmingham, RN, MS, CMAC, and Diane E. Holland, RN, PhD, describe two essential discharge planning processes.

May 1, 2011
Case Management Monthly

The ACMA has received a document from CMS that answers questions that ACMA members posed to the agency about delivering the Important Message from Medicare (IM).

May 1, 2011
Briefings on HIPAA

ClevX™, an intellectual property (IP) development and licensing company in Kirkland, WA, manufactures a secure USB flash drive called LokIt Secure Flash Drive®. It significantly limits risks related to loss or theft.

May 1, 2011
Briefings on HIPAA

HHS' OCR in February began using the new fine structure mandated by HITECH and handed one of the country's most prestigious hospitals, Massachusetts ­General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, a $1 million penalty for a breach violation.

May 1, 2011
Case Management Monthly

We received more than 700 responses to the 2011 Case Management Monthly Salary Surveyfrom RN case managers (51%), case ­management ­directors (23%), case management managers/­supervisors (16%), and social work (SW) case managers from all over the country.

April 1, 2011
HIM Briefings

Use this quiz to test staff members' knowledge of coding for neoplasms.

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