Prepare to pay if you’re not assessing your risks. Healthcare technology has shown immense benefits — from artificial intelligence (AI) and electronic health records (EHRs) to new clinical tools. However, as more patient interactions and office work is performed digitally, [...]
Caution: Analyze your risks, or pay the price. The benefits of technology to healthcare are undeniable, from new clinical tools to artificial intelligence to EHRs. But with more work and patient interaction performed digitally, cybersecurity has become a top priority [...]
Feds set a punishing precedent for healthcare providers that fall victim to this common cyberattack. If you think the feds will be sympathetic to a HIPAA data breach that was caused by phishing, think again. New case: Last month, the [...]
See what the total revenue increase could be for all 7 services. Over the last two months, we’ve looked at four ways to boost revenue for your practice, which could potentially help you adjust care programs, upgrade office equipment, adjust [...]
One ophthalmologist in our sampling would lose $39,000 a year under the new proposal. Although eye care practices have the option of reporting either ophthalmological services codes or E/M codes for their patient encounters, many ophthalmologists and optometrists bill the [...]
Grab the mixed bag of new codes with respiratory system postprocedural hematomas, mediastinitis, and more. The final 2017 ICD-10-CM codes are already in, and pulmonology is one area with updates you may not want to miss. “Seems like ICD-10 implementation [...]
Major revisions to postprocedural hemorrhage, mediastinitis, and more. CMS finally released the definitive code set update for the new 2017 ICD-10-CM codes that will go into effect Oct. 1. “New codes always require adjustment of reporting practices since people have [...]
Major revisions to postprocedural hemorrhage, mediastinitis, and more. CMS finally released the definitive codeset update for the new 2017 ICD-10-CM codes that will go into effect Oct. 1. “New codes always require adjustment of reporting practices since people have to [...]
Plus: Breach impact grows by leaps and bounds over time for Cedars-Sinai. More and more courts are dismissing lawsuits involving HIPAA breaches when the plaintiffs cannot prove that their personal information was actually used. Here’s yet another case with a [...]
Question: Our anesthesiologist was present during a procedure that started as an open Nissen fundoplication. Major complications arose, and a cardiologist was called in. That made the cardiologist the primary surgeon and the original physician the assisting surgeon. One surgeon [...]
