This week’s updates include revisions to ICD-10 conversion/coding infrastructure revisions to NCDs; a modification of OIG Advisory Opinion 07-11; and more! This news article is free for all Medicare Insider subscribers. Click here to read all of this week’s updates.
HealthDataInsights (HDI) posted one new issue in one category to its CMS list for providers in Region D. (See link for individual state applicability.)
This week’s updates include revisions to State Operations Manual (SOM), Appendix A -Survey Protocol, Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines for Hospitals; Claim Status Category and Claim Status Codes update; and more!
If you need to copy some medical records that include PHI, you're probably on point when taking steps to ensure privacy. You make sure no one's around. You grab the documents right from the copier when you're done, you don't forget the originals, and you take the records where they need to go. No one sees them. No HIPAA violations here.
Identify the new audit process that will be used by one of the two quality improvement organizations in charge of short stays under the 2-midnight rule.
