Latest HIPAA report highlights how practices let PHI fall through the cracks. If your lab is still using the same privacy protection protocols as it did when HIPAA was first enacted in 2003, you could be putting your practice in [...]
Feds focus enforcement resources on hospice industry. Hospices’ efforts to stay off the fraud and abuse hot seat aren’t helped by some recent multi-million-dollar fraud settlements. For example: A four-state hospice chain based in Oklahoma has paid $4 million to resolve [...]
Whistleblowers rake in nearly $700K in one fraud settlement. Hospices’ efforts to stay off the fraud and abuse hot seat aren’t helped by some recent multi-million-dollar fraud settlements. For example: A four-state hospice chain based in Oklahoma has paid $4 million [...]
Whistleblowers rake in nearly $700K in one fraud settlement. Hospices’ efforts to stay off the fraud and abuse hot seat aren’t helped by some recent multi-million-dollar fraud settlements. For example: A four-state hospice chain based in Oklahoma has paid $4 [...]
Residents in central south states more likely to get antipsychotic prescriptions. Overall about 22 percent of nursing home residents were prescribed antipsychotic drugs in 2009-2010, but residents in the south central states were more likely to receive these drugs than [...]
Residents in central south states more likely to get antipsychotic prescriptions. Overall about 22% of nursing home residents were prescribed antipsychotic drugs in 2009-2010, but residents in the south central states were more likely to receive these drugs than those [...]
Question: How should I code for a patient who was seen at 10:30 p.m. to collect for the after-hours office visit as well as for evaluation and management of conjunctivitis? Would I need to append a modifier to the after-hours [...]
