This week’s updates include EMTALA requirements related to Ebola and updated to the NCCI manual. Click the link above to read more about this week’s updates.
Albert Einstein once said "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." To paraphrase Einstein, the difference between security and compliance is that compliance has its limits. With each high-profile breach that makes headlines, organizations likely question the link between compliance and security, wondering whether the two are one and the same.
More than ever before, HIM is being recognized as an enterprise profession important to ambulatory, acute, and postacute settings. A good example of the transformation is HIM's involvement in CMS' risk adjustment and Hierarchical Condition Category coding system.
Coding and documentation should tell a patient's complete story. With the greater specificity in ICD-10, organizations should be better able to capture these stories, and the respiratory codes, listed in Chapter 10: Diseases of the Respiratory System (J00?J99), are no exception.
