This week’s Medicare updates include information on special waivers to assist Medicare providers, suppliers, and beneficiaries impacted by Hurricane Florence; a proposed rule on changes to various Medicare requirements, Conditions of Participation, and Conditions of Coverage; a review of Medicare payments for clinical laboratory tests; and more!
Data is an essential tool in understanding the patient population that will guide the focus of your case management program, and both internal metrics and community/public health data will provide strategic focus to case management practices.
This month's HIPAA Q&A includes answers on doctor's notes, scheduling appointments, hospital social media, alerting patients via text message, and more!
In this month's Product Watch, we look at a game-changing texting app. With the available technology, covered entities and business associates would be hard-pressed to justify sending PHI using unsecure texts.
Q: Our team is having a hard time determining a principal diagnosis for a patient with a history of stage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD) who is receiving chronic hemodialysis and is in acute renal failure (ARF) with volume overload. What ICD-10-CM code should be listed as the principal diagnosis?
