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Issue 46, November 19, 2003

• TOPIC: Choose scientific samples for ongoing records review

  TOPIC: Choose scientific samples for ongoing records review

Issue 11, November 24, 2003

• ICD-10 debate rages on

  Conflicting testimony at the most recent quarterly meeting of the National Committee for Vital...

Issue 52, December 28, 2003

• TOPIC: Patient rights and the privacy rule

  TOPIC: Patient rights and the privacy rule

Issue 51, December 23, 2003

• TOPIC: Standards of conduct for your compliance program

  TOPIC: Standards of conduct for your compliance program

• TOPIC: Use a shadowing program to improve documentation

  TOPIC: Use a shadowing program to improve documentation

• TOPIC: Coding and billing aborted/discontinued procedures

  TOPIC: Coding and billing aborted/discontinued procedures

Issue 48, November 1, 2003

• TOPIC: Use a stamp to alert doctors to unsigned verbal orders

  TOPIC: Use a stamp to alert doctors to unsigned verbal orders

• TOPIC: It all comes back to patient safety in Texas survey

  TOPIC: It all comes back to patient safety in Texas survey

Issue 46, November 17, 2003

• TOPIC: Suggestions for internal audits

  TOPIC: Suggestions for internal audits

Issue 45, November 10, 2003

• TOPIC: Top ten reasons for conducting coding audits

  TOPIC: Top ten reasons for conducting coding audits

Issue 43, October 28, 2003

• TOPIC: ICD-10 debate rages on

  TOPIC: ICD-10 debate rages on

Issue 42, October 22, 2003

• Electronic medical record adoption and use for medical staff

  Electronic medical record adoption and use for medical staff

• Electronic medical record adoption and use for medical staff

  Electronic medical record adoption and use for medical staff

Issue 41, October 15, 2003

• TOPIC: Understanding clearinghouses and other intermediaries

  TOPIC: Understanding clearinghouses and other intermediaries

Issue 40, September 10, 2003

• Four approaches for dealing with radiology modifiers

  Four approaches for dealing with radiology modifiers

• Designing a plan for ongoing compliance monitoring

  Designing a plan for ongoing compliance monitoring

Issue 38, September 23, 2003

• Try elbow-to-elbow education for documentation improvement

  Try elbow-to-elbow education for documentation improvement

Issue 37, July 16, 2003

• Secure three common media types under HIPAA

  Secure three common media types under HIPAA

• Contact vendors about compliance with HIPAA transactions standards

  Contact vendors about compliance with HIPAA transactions standards

• Evaluate your facility's medical necessity compliance

  Evaluate your facility’s medical necessity compliance

• TOPIC: Train your staff on the 2004 ICD-9-CM codes

  TOPIC: Train your staff on the 2004 ICD-9-CM codes

• TOPIC: Obtain physician cooperation in documenting orders for outpatient tests

  TOPIC: Obtain physician cooperation in documenting orders for outpatient tests

• TOPIC: Salary survey shows region, hospital-size play big role in take-home pay

  TOPIC: Salary survey shows region, hospital-size play big role in take-home pay

• TOPIC: Conduct a review of troublesome DRGs at your facility

  TOPIC: Conduct a review of troublesome DRGs at your facility

• TOPIC: Use settlement agreements as a model for coding audits

  TOPIC: Use settlement agreements as a model for coding audits

• TOPIC: Make more room on order sheets to eliminate illegibility

  TOPIC: Make more room on order sheets to eliminate illegibility

• TOPIC: Use record review to keep medical records accurate, complete, and timely

  TOPIC: Use record review to keep medical records accurate, complete, and timely

• TOPIC: Learn the secrets to a lower delinquency rate

  TOPIC: Learn the secrets to a lower delinquency rate

Issue 36, June 10, 2003

• Consider keeping your chart audits under wraps with attorney-client privilege

  Consider keeping your chart audits under wraps with attorney-client privilege

• Minimize liability when it comes to informed consent

  Minimize liability when it comes to informed consent

Issue 35, June 2, 2003

• Protecting privacy at home: Follow these rules for telecommuters

  Protecting privacy at home: Follow these rules for telecommuters

• Consider your transactions options

  Consider your transactions options

Issue 22, May 4, 2003

• Select the right data for your ongoing records review

  Select the right data for your ongoing records review

• Follow-up on your HIPAA education and training

  Follow-up on your HIPAA education and training

Issue 20, May 20, 2003

• Compliance with the HIPAA transactions rule requires operational changes

  Compliance with the HIPAA transactions rule requires operational changes

• Avoid hospital audit staffing problems

  Avoid hospital audit staffing problems

• Define an information baseline

  Define an information baseline

Issue 17, November 28, 2003

• Be the first to tell the government about your overpayments

  Be the first to tell the government about your overpayments

• Make sure authorization forms are complete

  Make sure authorization forms are complete

• Evaluate your compliance culture

  Evaluate your compliance culture

• Limit the use of fax and take precautions to protect PHI

  Limit the use of fax and take precautions to protect PHI

• Marketplace will help to enforce HIPAA

  Marketplace will help to enforce HIPAA

• Important decisions and activities for ongoing records review

  Important decisions and activities for ongoing records review

• Organized Health Care Arrangements allow physician practices to share cost of HI

  Organized Health Care Arrangements allow physician practices to share cost of HIPAA-compliance

• Get set! Preparing for record reviews

  Get set! Preparing for record reviews

• Be prepared for HIPAA transactions standards

  Be prepared for HIPAA transactions standards

• Wrongful disclosures could bring your organization big penalties under HIPAA

  Wrongful disclosures could bring your organization big penalties under HIPAA

• Save money and time by becoming part of OHCA

  Save money and time by becoming part of OHCA

• Obtain maximum allowable reimbursement with the appropriate use of modifiers

  Obtain maximum allowable reimbursement with the appropriate use of modifiers

• Final security regulations place more emphasis on risk assessment

  Final security regulations place more emphasis on risk assessment

• Be prepared to identify "reasonable" safeguards to satisfy HIPAA

  Be prepared to identify "reasonable" safeguards to satisfy HIPAA

• Be prepared for documentation of reduced/discontinued procedures

  Be prepared for documentation of reduced/discontinued procedures

• Be prepared to make crucial decisions regarding your ongoing records review

  Be prepared to make crucial decisions regarding your ongoing records review

• HIPAA compliance requires human resource support

  HIPAA compliance requires human resource support

• Accomplish documentation education without losing your sanity

  Accomplish documentation education without losing your sanity

• Time's up: HIPAA privacy rule is now enforceable

  Time’s up: HIPAA privacy rule is now enforceable

• Engage non-clinical staff in ongoing records review

  Engage non-clinical staff in ongoing records review

• Under what circumstances are verbal orders acceptable?

  Under what circumstances are verbal orders acceptable?