Stephanie, a home care nurse case manager, follows patients with repeated readmissions, stabilizes them in the community, and prevents the readmissions from continuing. But with record-breaking temperatures approaching, Stephanie knows that helping her patients avoid readmission will be more challenging than usual.
Q: Can a healthcare provider be a business associate of another provider? In other words, do providers need to have business associate agreements between one another?
This week's note from the instructor discusses a change that will be implemented in October to address issues related to device-dependent procedure edits.
Several national groups representing accountable care organizations and physicians expressed concern that CMS has delayed disbursement of the 5% advanced alternative payment model (APM) bonus.
