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  • 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 OPPS Final Rule.

  • HHS task force: Consider privacy, security with text messages

    The government should take a better look at privacy and security concerns before it encourages and helps develop health text messaging and mobile health programs, an HHS task force recommends.

  • Dealing with data breaches

    You pick up the phone and someone tells you that a laptop containing thousands of patient files was left behind on the morning train. Or you learn that your own employees have been snooping into sensitive patient records for fun and profit. Or you discover that, for some odd reason, patient records have been posted on a completely unrelated public website for anyone to see, and they’ve been there for nearly a year.

  • Demi Moore's medical records redacted

    As we’ve been saying all along in HIPAA compliance circles, everyone has privacy rights under HIPAA – even celebrities.

  • Q/A: Reporting negative pressure therapy

     Q: The new guidelines for the integumentary system section state that CPT® codes 15002–15005 are noted to be reportable for surgical preparation of the site, including for negative pressure wound therapy. Please explain how to use these codes when reporting negative pressure wound therapy? This may affect how we report certain wound care services that we provide.

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  • ICD-10 Mail for Coders

    Keep ICD-10 education fresh with weekly emails and quizzes.

    ICD-10 Mail for Coders is a CD-ROM that includes 52 e-mail messages – a new message to send to your staff each week for a year with tips and quiz questions to prepare them on a continuing basis for ICD-10. The CD-ROM also includes an interactive game for coders, case study exercises, and a PowerPoint® "Train the Trainer" presentation that buyers can customize and use to train staff.

    Meet the Author:

    Jennifer McManis, RHIT, Certified ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer is the compliance/privacy officer at Bozeman Deaconess Hospital in Bozeman, MT. She has more than 18 years of experience in the healthcare industry, including acute care hospital and private physician practice settings. She conducts coding and documentation audits and identifies and implements changes for clinical documentation improvement, admission processes, charge entry, and billing practices. She is the author of ICD-10 Mail for Coders.

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