The AMA added five new nuclear medicine codes to the radiology section of the 2013 CPT Manual, while revising and deleting a number of codes that represented outdated technology or were bundled into placement procedures.
When HIM professionals at Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, looked into its success rate for physician response to coding queries, it knew it needed to do a better job.
Privacy officers must ensure their hospital removes potential patient identifiers from data sets used for reasons outside of treatment, payment, and healthcare operations, privacy experts say.
