Q: Do you have any advice for organizations to ensure they're meeting three-day inpatient stay requirements for discharging patients to skilled nursing facilities (SNF)?
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reached a settlement with Korunda Medical LLC, a Florida-based company, on December 11 for a potential violation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s right-of-access provision.
CMS recently published Transmittal 332 to inform Medicare administrative contractors and providers of new billing considerations, effective January 1, 2020, for medication-assisted treatments provided by opioid treatment programs.
Q: We have a patient who was admitted for an ablation procedure in order to treat his atrial fibrillation (AF). How should we report this in ICD-10-PCS?
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reviewed two proposals to recommend an increase in hospital reimbursement in 2021, according to documents from its December 5 meeting.
Healthcare Administrative Partners, a medical billing company in Pennsylvania that provides billing, coding, and practice management services to hospital-affiliated physician practices, recently notified 17,693 patients of a data breach that may have exposed their protected health information.
