Employees need to know what to do and what not to do when it comes to ensuring protected health information (PHI) remains secure. That’s where TeachPrivacy comes in as an excellent resource for quality staff training.
Q: A payer has begun denying authorization for admissions and diverting patients from our hospital to one of our competitors, even when our hospital is closer. Is this a common practice among payers? What language should we add to the contract to discourage it?
Every director of case management faces the challenge of remaining current in an age of information overload. For some, this information explosion may cause work fatigue and anxiety. One way to stay afloat is to focus on one thing—Medicare.
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?
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.
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.
