News & Analysis

May 1, 2013
Briefings on HIPAA

The HIPAA Privacy Rule de-identification ­standard-Section 164.514(a)-includes two ­methods by which health information can be designated as de-identified: expert determination and safe harbor.

May 1, 2013
Briefings on HIPAA

Does your organization treat HIPAA compliance as kismet or karma?

May 1, 2013
Briefings on HIPAA

Business associates (BA) definitely have their work cut out for them.

May 1, 2013
HIM Briefings

The Joint Commission recently introduced the Focused Standards Assessment (FSA) tool and the risk icon (R) to identify:

May 1, 2013
Briefings on HIPAA

One thing the release of the omnibus final rule has left healthcare ­organizations asking is, "Where do we start?"

May 1, 2013
Briefings on APCs

Our experts answer questions about modifiers for diagnostic interventional procedures, Medicare recognition of CPT® code 9066, reporting add-on code for psychotherapy with interactive complexity, reporting G0378 for all payers, and wound care coding.

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