Corporate Compliance

Correctly billing SATH drugs

Healthcare Auditing Weekly, April 26, 2005

It's helpful to conduct an audit to determine whether your organization is correctly billing self-administered take-home (SATH) drugs. During the audit, be sure to identify every area where the organization gives drugs to outpatients. Don't forget the include to following areas:

  • Emergency departments and clinics

  • Day surgery

  • Observation patients who stay overnight

  • Interventional radiology patients who need Tylenol while under observation

  • Chemotherapy patients who receive Benadryl before receiving therapy

    Look for next week's issue when we discuss how to choose a sample for your SATH audit.

    The above tip is an excerpt from the book "Hospital Auditing and Monitoring: Sample Programs for Key Risk Areas." Copyright 2004 by HCPro, Inc. This book is a step-by-step, practical manual that offers sample audit programs for the most troublesome areas that a hospital must audit. The binder and CD-ROM are filled with actual audit programs used by auditors and compliance officers in the field. Click here for more information or to order your copy today.

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