By asking difficult questions early in a patient’s care about issues such as housing, food security, and neighborhood crime, case managers can combat common transition-related issues in high-cost or high-need patients.
We are updating our charges in our RHC and we want to make sure we are capturing all of the preventive services that we can perform in our clinic. Along with that, we want to audit the documentation. Where can we find a list of RHC preventive services?
If your organization is regulated by HIPAA, either as a covered entity (CE) or as a business associate (BA), you probably started a HIPAA training program years ago when the privacy and security rules mandating training were published. Whether old or recently created, your training program may not have met reasonable expectations to begin with. Now may be a good time to review, refresh, and refine that program to take it to a new level.
Sexual harassment in Hollywood has gotten much attention recently, but it’s far from the only industry where harassment is a problem. A recent analysis of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission data for 1995 through 2016 showed that some 3,800 hospital employees filed sexual harassment complaints.
Q: Our facility has attempted to use the -X{EPSU} modifiers on 2017 and 2018 claims but our Fiscal Intermediary Standard System (FISS) did not process the claims. I reverted to using modifier -59 (distinct procedural service). Do you have any knowledge of when these modifiers might go into use?
Even going out of business doesn’t protect an organization from HIPAA requirements. The Office for Civil Rights recently announced it reached a $100,000 settlement with the receiver liquidating the assets of Filefax, Inc., a Northbrook, Illinois, medical records company that shut down during an investigation of HIPAA violations.
