Preceptors, always an important component of a case management department, have taken on new importance. The nursing shortage’s impact on case management departments has heightened the need for enhanced recruitment and necessitated multiple orientees and orientations throughout the year.
In September, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released its fall 2022 data for enforcement. Covered entities (CE) and business associates (BA) can review this data to determine areas that most commonly trigger enforcement on behalf of the government’s regulator for the HIPAA Privacy and Security rules.
Multidisciplinary rounds can help to improve communication and streamline discharge planning. Technology, when used correctly, can be a useful tool to support those efforts.
Ensure you're on top of the latest ICD-10-CM rules for coding principal diagnoses for newborn encounters, conditions that may be community acquired or due to birth complications, common newborn conditions that are often coded incorrectly, and 2023 codes for newborn apnea that took effect October 1.
This week’s Medicare updates include the January 2023 OPPS update transmittal, a proposed rule on interoperability and improving prior authorization processes, billing instructions for home or residence services, and more!
CMS confirmed in the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule that it will adopt the framework of the revised AMA E/M guidelines, including payment based on medical decision-making (MDM) or time, effective January 1, 2023. Laura Evans, CPC, explains how the agency will diverge from the AMA on some points, however.
