Q: What’s the difference between an incomplete miscarriage, a septic miscarriage, and a missed miscarriage and how would surgical treatments for these conditions be reported using CPT codes?
HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently launched an education campaign about civil rights protections in response to the national opioid crisis, including specific guidelines for covered entities under HIPAA.
Q: I work for a large company. I called out one day because my daughter was sick. Do I have to provide a doctor's note to my employer when I wasn't the actual patient?
CMS is proposing to expand Medicare Advantage (MA) telehealth benefits and to increase auditing and recovery of overpayments made to MA plans, according to a proposed rule released October 26.
Q: Case managers used to evaluate their work in terms of tasks completed or length of stay (LOS). Now that LOS has more than a financial meaning, what are some meaningful outcomes case managers can use to set goals for their work?
The emergency department (ED) should be considered a patient unit, and the case manager and social worker should triage throughout the day. They must work to improve patient flow in the ED and provide better quality of care for the patient.
The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) announced last week that they have updated the Security Risk Assessment tool with improved functionality to assess risks to protected health information.
