CMS' Conditions of Participation for UR include specific requirements for the composition of the UR committee, specifying that it must be composed of at least two doctors of medicine or osteopathy.
Breaches of PHI are increasingly in the news and the value of the data stolen is high. The healthcare industry is a significant target when it comes to cyber crime. Standard credit monitoring or insurance does little when it comes to medical identity theft. MIDAS, offered by ID Experts®, is a tool that can assist payers in early detection of medical identify theft and reduce fraud, going where existing tools have yet to go. It is a solution that's unique in today's market.
Emory University Hospital in Atlanta was thrust into the international spotlight in the summer of 2014 as the world anxiously watched first one, then two, then three humanitarian workers infected with the Ebola virus return from West Africa to the United States for treatment as the months dragged on and public anxiety soared. The fourth patient treated at Emory was a nurse who became infected while caring for an Ebola patient at a Texas hospital.
In an effort to accommodate the latest advances in technology and make the code set easier to modify for future technological changes, the AMA extensively overhauled codes for reporting drug testing in the 2015 CPT® Manual.
