Organizations that collect and share consumer health information must comply with the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act), the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) said in an email released October 21.
This week’s Medicare updates include Fiscal Year 2017 Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long Term Care Hospital PPS Changes; Revisions to State Operations Manual for Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) and Swing-Beds in CAHs; and more!
Coder accuracy in ICD-10 may suffer if the focus is on productivity—and poor accuracy will hit hospitals’ revenue streams hard under value-based purchasing programs, experts at AHIMA’s 2016 convention agreed.
