Strategies for Health Care Compliance, September 2009
Strategies for Health Care Compliance, September 1, 2009
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In this issue of Strategies for Health Care Compliance, we’ll take a look at unnecessary hospital readmissions, what CMS is doing to eliminate them, and what you can do to avoid claims denials at your facility. We’ll also look into the HIPAA compliance program for the Army’s medical center in Honolulu and will examine evaluation and management auditing and seven coding traps auditors need to watch out for when performing coding audits.
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