More than 70% of heath data breaches in the past decade involved sensitive demographic or financial information, leaving 159 million people vulnerable to identity theft and fraud, according to a new study.
Q: The 2020 ICD-10-CM update added several new codes for legal interventions. What are these codes, and can they be assigned based on nonphysician documentation?
Stephanie, a home care nurse case manager, follows patients with repeated readmissions, stabilizes them in the community, and prevents the readmissions from continuing. But with record-breaking temperatures approaching, Stephanie knows that helping her patients avoid readmission will be more challenging than usual.
Q: Can a healthcare provider be a business associate of another provider? In other words, do providers need to have business associate agreements between one another?
This week's note from the instructor discusses a change that will be implemented in October to address issues related to device-dependent procedure edits.
