News & Analysis

Note from the instructor: CY 2015 OPPS Proposed Rule contains Significant Policies

July 8, 2014
Medicare Insider

This week’s note is about the CY 2015 OPPS Proposed Rule. Click the link above for more information and an in-depth analysis.

The week in Medicare updates

July 1, 2014
Medicare Insider

This week’s updates include clarification to home health benefit billing instructions and a special fraud alert regarding laboratory payments. Click the link above to read more about this week’s updates.

Clarification after an RC survey

July 1, 2014
HIM Briefings

Have you considered seeking clarifications after a Joint Commission survey for the Record of Care (RC) Requirements for Improvement (RFI)?

The high cost of failing to protect your server

July 1, 2014
Briefings on HIPAA

OCR recently slapped two organizations with the largest monetary penalty for HIPAA violations to date: $4.8 million.

HIPAA Q&A: Permissible disclosures, misdirected faxes, BAAs

July 1, 2014
HIM Briefings

Q: The hospital where I work entered into a business associate agreement (BAA) that requires the business associate (BA) to notify us of a potential breach no more than 60 days after it is discovered.

Returning veterans working as transition coaches

July 1, 2014
Case Management Monthly

One Arizona hospital is reducing avoidable readmissions and performing a good deed in the process.

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