This week’s updates include reporting principal and interest amounts when refunding previously recouped money on the Remittance Advice; Changes to the laboratory NCD edit software for July 2016; and more!
This week Medicare Insider is featuring an excerpt from Patient Status Training Toolkit for Utilization Review by Kimberly Anderwood Hoy Baker, JD, regulatory specialist for HCPro.
Q: Rural health clinics have to start to bill all services on individual lines with HCPCS codes and charges. Is there a way to report these services on a separate line without the appearance of inflating our charges?
Subpoenas are a sometimes-unwelcome fact of life for privacy officers. They can be complicated, requesting broad amounts of information that is time-consuming to gather. They can be written in dense legal language that takes time and finesse to decipher. If a subpoena requests PHI, it can also raise privacy concerns and questions about how to honor the subpoena while releasing only the necessary information. Some subpoenas may request information that an organization considers sensitive for other reasons. It can be all too easy to put off dealing with a subpoena until the last minute, then rushing to react without taking the time to really read and understand what it says.
