News & Analysis

Q&A: Documentation requirements for nurses

September 7, 2018
News & Insights

Q: Is there a requirement that OB nurses (or other nurses) must document at least every hour while a patient is in outpatient status?

Q&A: HIPAA training for temporary nursing staff

September 6, 2018
News & Insights

Q: If we hire temporary nursing staff through a staffing agency, do they need to complete our facility’s HIPAA training, or can we consider the training the agency provides sufficient?

Q&A: Helping a patient with a strong religious background cope with a diagnosis

September 5, 2018
News & Insights

Q: What can a case manager do to help a patient with a strong religious background cope with a newly diagnosed life-altering illness?

This month's coding Q&A

September 1, 2018
Briefings on APCs

Our experts answer questions about HIM's role in edit management, reporting infusions with no documented stop time, and more.

Security Q&A: Identification requirements, out-of-work information disclosure, and PHI and record retention

August 31, 2018
Briefings on HIPAA

This month's Q&A answers readers' questions about identification requirements, out-of-work information disclosure, and PHI and record retention

Q&A: How can we improve provider response to coding queries?

August 31, 2018
News & Insights

Q: Our physicians do not have a great query response rate when requests come from coders. What can we do to improve that rate and be more efficient with the query process?

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