Q: I know that there is a mandatory duty to report abuse and neglect to law enforcement, but where is line between protecting patient privacy and a case manager's duty to warn when a patient is in danger of harming themselves?
A new survey from McKinsey found that 53% of consumers report being adversely affected by one or more of the social determinants of health (SDoH), and having these needs unmet leads to more emergency room visits and hospital stays.
If a lawyer hits you with a subpoena for a patient’s protected health information, don’t panic—or you may not only violate the patient’s privacy rights under HIPAA, but also be subject to civil action under state law.
In Maryland, an innovative program called SBIRIT (Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment) is helping take some of the weight off case managers working with substance use disorder patients by successfully steering those patients into treatment through the use of peer recovery specialists.
Q: Sometimes providers at our facility perform multiple, separate administrations of hydration that are less than 30 minutes each. Can coders add the separate infusion times together when assigning time-based CPT codes for hydration administration?
