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APCs Weekly Monitor

• Q/A: New device pass-through categories

  Q: Will CMS ever approve any new device pass-through categories?

• Tip: Note physician supervision changes

  CMS finalized two significant changes to the physician supervision requirements as part of the 2012...

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CDI Strategies

• Director’s Note: ACDIS members elect four new ACDIS Advisory Board members

  ACDIS would like to welcome four new members to the advisory board. These new board members are the...

• Membership Update: New content added to ACDIS site; reminders for members

  Professional of the year nominee deadline Click here to download the 2012 award nomination form...

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Coding Educator

• Editor’s Note

  Beginning soon, Coding Educator will be moving to a blog format.

• Alzheimer’s Awareness and Memory Walk

  Each October, the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk is held to raise awareness and funds...

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HIM Connection

• Q&A: Incidental disclosures and patient privacy

  Q: Our phlebotomy area has two drawing chairs and is divided by a curtain. Is it a HIPAA violation...

• Know how pain justifies medical necessity

  Generally speaking, coders are taught not to code signs and symptoms that are integral to a disease...

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HIPAA Weekly Advisor

• Report: Breaches reach 19 million records

  Covered entities and business associates reported a total of 385 breaches of unsecured PHI...

• How to respond to audit findings

  Truth be told, the real work for healthcare organizations may come after a HIPAA compliance audit...

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JustCoding News: Inpatient

• JustCoding Virtual Summit: ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS

  JustCoding Virtual Summit: ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS

• New on JustCoding Platinum!

  New on JustCoding Platinum!

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JustCoding News: Outpatient

• JustCoding Virtual Summit: ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS

  Get three days of ICD-10 training without the travel. This online event, February 29-March 2, 2012...

• New on JustCoding Platinum!

  New on JustCoding Platinum!

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Medicare Weekly Update

• Note: Recovery audits result in changes to CMS systems and recoupment options

  This week CMS published two transmittals that affect CMS systems as a result of the recovery audit...

• Regulations: CMS corrects IPPS final rule errors, publishes outpatient drug proposed rule, and requests comments regarding transfers

  On February 1, CMS corrected technical errors that occurred in Tables 2, 4C, and 9A of the fiscal...

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The RAC Report

• Start date announced for recovery audit prepayment review demo

  On November 15, 2011, CMS unveiled three demonstration projects aimed at reducing improper payments...

• Recovery audits result in changes to CMS systems and recoupment options

  This week CMS published two transmittals that affect CMS systems as a result of the recovery audit...