| Looking Over Your Shoulder in Healthcare: Documentation |
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Healthcare is serious business, and the repercussions of deficiencies in medical documentation can be considerable. Nurse attorney Carolyn Buppert examines the landscape of medical record auditing -- for a variety of purposes -- and offers practical suggestions to improve your documentation in this 3-part series.
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| Mitigating Risks for ICD-10 Transition |
Careful and incremental project planning throughout the full timeline until Oct. 1, 2013, will help ensure a successful transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS (referred to as ICD-10 for the remainder of this article.) Consequences of poor planning include increased claims rejections and denials, improper claims payment, coding backlogs, increased physician queries and compliance issues. This article will discuss three things you can and should be doing now to successfully move toward the implementation date of Oct. 1, 2013.
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| 5 'gotchas' of ICD-10 implementation |
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A panel of ICD-10 experts spoke Friday at a conference co-hosted by the New England Health Information and Management Systems Society and Maine Healthcare Financial Management Association in South Portland, Maine, giving advice about the five 'gotchas' that can wreak havoc on the best-laid plans for implementing the new coding system.
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HHS Pushes Back Stage 2 of Meaningful Use to 2014 |
As part of a new initiative to accelerate Meaningful Use of electronic health records, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has announced its intent to delay the start of Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use requirements from 2013 to 2014. This was not unexpected.READ MORE |
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Meaningful Use Checklist |
In order to access federal incentive dollars through your EHR, you must prove "meaningful use," the goal of which is to improve care and outcomes for your patients.
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| Ponemon study says data breaches cost U.S. healthcare $6.5B annually |
The frequency of data breaches in healthcare have increased 32 percent in the past year and cost the industry an estimated $6.5 billion annually according to the second annual benchmarking study conducted by the Ponemon Institute.
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EHR Data Target for Identity Thieves |
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Medical identity theft has become one of the most lucrative forms of identity theft, according to a panel of cybersecurity specialists.
Stolen patient data -- including electronic health records as well as insurance information -- is valuable because it can be used to make false or inflated insurance claims, obtain prescription drugs, or receive treatment at the insurance account holder's expense.
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