Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA practice brief attachment

Publication Date: February 2012

Purpose:
To ensure all health information-related tasks are addressed in the process of setting up a new clinic.
Departments Needed: Contracting, Marketing, IS, HIM, Patient Management Systems, EMR Team, Clinic Management, Billing/Coding Questions to Answer:
1. What is the legal name....

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA toolkit

Publication Date: December 02, 2011

This toolkit is designed to provide guidance to HIM professionals on how to prepare for and ensure compliance in managing governmental audits.

Author: Heubusch, Kevin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2011

Perhaps one of the biggest jobs related to implementing the ARRA provisions right now is keeping track of the moving parts. Publication of the act in 2009 was a kind of Big Bang-an explosion of provisions that rocked the healthcare universe. Since then, however, the pieces have traveled at dif....

Author: Brocato, Lori; Emery, Steven; McDavid, Jan P

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2011

A mix of new regulations and initiatives-with audits and attestations in their wake-have put a new focus on compliance in physician practices and clinics.

Recovery audits, breach notification regulations, and modifications to the HIPAA privacy rule are forcing rapid workflo....

Author: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Inspector General

Source: Government (U.S.)

Publication Date: October 03, 2011

Author: Brownfield, Cathy; Ward, Kelly A.

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

Background:

Coping with the changing healthcare environment is a major challenge. With electronic health records (EHRs), meaningful use (MU), a plethora of audits, HIPAA 5010, CDI, and ICD-10 all happening together, the world of HIM is anything but boring. Accommodating all these changes....

Author: Shim, Steven

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

Overview

This is a unique and challenging time for the healthcare industry in terms of Health Information Technology (IT) adoption and satisfying regulatory requirements such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and HITECH Act privacy and security com....

Author: Robb, Deborah

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

Background

Outpatient coding edits are complicated. Knowing the difference between modifiers, edits, bundling and scrubbers can be mind-boggling for coders paid on productivity and focused on the bottom line. However, ignoring the complexities of outpatient reimbursement rules c....

Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.; Rodenbaugh, Barbara

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

The Postacute Care Transfer policy or PACT has been a compliance issue for years and a revenue recapture issue as well. The Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) demonstration project found over and under payments in this area and now the permanent program is starting to audit this as well.

Author: Edelstein, Scott A; Poulson, Mary

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

Introduction

An insurer notifies 1.9 million individuals nationwide that their health care and personal information may have been breached as a result of nine server drives missing from a California data center.

A hospital employee was commuting on the subway and left documents....