This week's note from the instructor discusses a new exception to the Medicare Secondary Payer Questionnaire process that could reduce the frequency of when these questions need to be asked and enhance patient satisfaction.
Q: How long are we required to retain the records of out-of-state patients? Do we follow HIPAA’s record retention requirements, our state record retention requirements, or the record retention requirements of the state in which the patient lives?
Q: Sometimes a patient doesn’t understand his or her conditions enough to do what he or she can to prevent readmission. Any tips on what a case manager can do to empower patients to learn about their health?
It is critical for providers and any person who is involved with healthcare revenue integrity to stay as current as possible or risk losing out on opportunities to ensure proper and full payment of millions of dollars’ worth of billed and/or billable claims, and the National Association of Healthcare Revenue Integrity’s 2018 Revenue Integrity Symposium can help professionals do just that.
This week’s Medicare updates include information on special waivers to assist Medicare providers, suppliers, and beneficiaries impacted by Hurricane Florence; a proposed rule on changes to various Medicare requirements, Conditions of Participation, and Conditions of Coverage; a review of Medicare payments for clinical laboratory tests; and more!
