Mark down incident response on your HIPAA risk assessment to-do list. Your number one business priority as a healthcare provider is to secure your patients’ protected health information (PHI). The safekeeping of this critical information is crucial from a professional [...]
Nearly 80 percent more data breaches occurred in 2022 than 2021. Cybersecurity professionals in healthcare need to stay on top of emerging threats before a data breach lands your organization on the front page. In addition to the traditional attacks [...]
Here’s a reminder of why you should always check new hires against the exclusion list. An Alabama hospice is paying the piper after confessing to its compliance sins. After it self-disclosed conduct to the HHS Office of Inspector General, Hospice [...]
It’s just like real estate: Location is everything. As a urology coder, you see calculus diagnoses on a regular basis. ICD-10 has expanded your choices, but for stone diagnoses you will find most of your most common ones in two [...]
It’s just like real estate: Location is everything. As a urology coder, you see calculus diagnoses on a regular basis. ICD-10 has expanded your choices, but for stone diagnoses you will find most of your most common ones in two [...]
Look to your MAC for guidance on medical necessity. Don’t let slipshod observation and assessment documentation impede your bottom line. Detailed notes can help you garner the reimbursement you deserve. Careless charting may be the culprit of a recent rash [...]
Do meds you list as new or changed fit within this MAC’s time frame? Will sloppy observation and assessment documentation cost your agency its deserved reimbursement? That may be what happened to many home health agencies that recently underwent a [...]
Question: How should I report an open cystotomy with removal of a 7-8cm blood clot? South Carolina Subscriber Answer: Report the cystotomy with 51040 (Cystostomy, cystotomy with drainage). However, if there was any stone formation with or within the clot, then [...]
Is a moratorium in the industry's future?Home health agencies' lives could get even harder if the OIG gets its way.The HHS Office of Inspector General has found $5 million in inappropriate Medicare payments to HHAs in 2010, it says in [...]
How would you report this procedure? Test your operative report interpretation skills with this case study from a Urology Coding Alert subscriber in Alabama. Operative Procedure: The patient was brought to the operating room with IV fluids running and was [...]
