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APCs Weekly Monitor

• Q/A: May we bill an E/M code for a wound care first visit

  Q.  Several of our facilities that include hospital-based outpatient wound care clinics have...

• Tip: Determine the number of specimens to code surgical pathology correctly

  If you perform a level IV surgical pathology (88305) on more than one specimen from the same...

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CDI Strategies

• Tip: Take the time to review the H&P and progress notes

  CDI specialists often underestimate the importance of the dictated history and physical (H&P...

• News: Simple mistakes cause profound costs

  Sometimes documentation mistakes caught by CDI professionals are the simple ones. Like an incorrect...

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Coding Educator

• Go Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

  Breast cancer is a personal issue for me. There are several members of my family who have either...

• Class Act

  Class Act

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HIM Connection

• Q&A: Obtaining acknowledgement of notice of privacy

  Q. Must we obtain a patient’s acknowledgement that he or she has received the notice of...

• Documentation Compliance Plan

  In addition to policies and procedures, HIPAA has provisions related to documentation. These...

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HIPAA Weekly Advisor

• Q&A: prescription records

  Q. May a spouse obtain the prescription records of an incarcerated spouse without written...

• CVS to pay $2.25 million settlement for potential privacy breaches

  CVS will pay the price for potential privacy breaches on millions of patients’ records.

• New HHS Web site

  HHS launched a new Web site including content on HIPAA regulations under a user-friendly format.

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JustCoding News: Inpatient

• Healthcare happenings: Medicare makes Medically Unlikely Edits available to the public

  CMS announced that it will publish the majority of its Medically Unlikely Edits (MUE) as of October...

• New on JustCoding Platinum!

  New on JustCoding Platinum!

• Improve your CDI program with severity adjusted data

  There is a new focus on capturing severity of illness (SOI) and risk of mortality (ROM), and...

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Medicare Weekly Update

• CMS Public Events: No events this week

  There are no public events this week.

• Sign up for our FREE MedicareFind webcast!

  Let us show you what MedicareFind can do and why it's the most efficient way to FIND what you need...

• Regulations: CMS displays OPPS, MPFS final rules for 2010, and more

  On October 30, CMS released a display copy of the OPPS final rule for CY 2010.

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The RAC Report

• Region B and D RACs post new issues, all states now approved for audits

  CGI, the RAC for Region B, has posted three new issues for review in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky...

• CMS releases new FAQ on N432

  On October 15 CMS released an FAQ on the appearance of code N432 on remittance advice.