News & Analysis

September 1, 2012
Briefings on APCs

CMS is proposing two major changes as part of the 2013 OPPS proposed rule, released July 6. One has to do with how CMS proposes to calculate APC relative weights; the other addresses the reimbursement level for separately payable drugs and biologicals without pass-through status.

August 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene (N.H.), like many others, pays close attention to documentation issues around coding.

August 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

If HIM professionals needed another reason to be ­concerned with protected health information (PHI) ­outside of paper records, a surgery center in Arizona ­provided one in April.

August 1, 2012
Briefings on HIPAA

If you don't know where all of your PHI is, how can you ensure that you protect it?

August 1, 2012
Briefings on HIPAA

A compliance officer is responsible for providing leadership for a healthcare organization's compliance program, but this is not a job a compliance officer must do alone.

August 1, 2012
Briefings on HIPAA

Too many healthcare organizations are receiving ­failing grades for HIPAA compliance, an analysis of OCR's first 20 initial audits reveals.

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