To comply with the HIPAA omnibus final rule, healthcare organizations need to revise their risk assessment process to determine whether they must notify affected individuals of a breach.
Observation or inpatient? It sounds like a simple question, but it continues to be a sticky area for most facilities. If your organization is having trouble correctly assigning every patient, you're not alone.
Who would have thought that buying gas with a credit card or wearing a pacemaker could leave a person's information exposed? Yet highly sophisticated credit card skimming devices at gas stations are stealing from consumers, and healthcare organizations are concerned about the potential for malicious tampering or the theft of PHI from wireless medical devices such as pacemakers. Hidden vulnerabilities lie in everyday activities like these, and some of those vulnerabilities can expose PHI and put healthcare organizations at risk.
E/M coding and reimbursement for hospital outpatients could change dramatically if CMS finalizes its proposal to replace current E/M CPT® codes with three G-codes.
