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Compliance

• Documentation Disconnect

• Proposed HIPAA Security Rule Updates

• Strategic Initiative

• No Longer in Denial

• A HIPAA Security Overhaul

• Documentation Dilemmas: Stepped-Up Audits Driving Denials

• Data Security: Protecting Patient Data

• Revenue Cycle Management: Staking Their Claim

• Release of Information and Audits

• The Designated Record Set

• The Clearly Defined Designated Record Set

• The Complexity of Payer Policy Changes

• Releasing Medical Records

• RADV Medical Record Reviewer Guidance and Preparedness Utilizing AI

• Lessons Learned From a Recent Data Breach

• Data Breaches on the Rise

• Becoming an AHIMA-Approved CDI Trainer

• The High-Risk Game of High-Risk Diagnosis Groups

• Navigating Privacy and Compliance Post Dobbs

• State AGs Crack Down on Data Privacy

• Does Your Documentation Meet the MEAT Criteria?

• Prompt Response Required

• Get Set for HIPAA Changes

• Shoring Up Safe Harbor

• Getting Back to Normal: Planning for RAC Audits

• The OCR: Friend, Not Foe

• The Pros and Cons of Sharing Consultation Notes

• Internal Audits Help Combat Payer Risk

• Be on the Lookout for New Critical Care Service Policies

• Defining the Designated Record Set

• Systematic Coder Audits Help Stem Revenue Leakage

• Security Tips for Personal Devices in the Workplace

• How to Deal With Sensitive Information

• The Future Looks Bright for Coders

• Prior Authorization Denials: Building for the Future

• Follow These Guidelines to Optimize Coder Education

• The Privacy Rule May Be In for a Makeover

• When the Police Come Knocking

• OIG Data Brief Causes a Stir

• Health Care’s Telehealth Conundrum

• New Law Changes the Security Landscape

• ‘Reasonable and Necessary’ Gets Redefined

• The Future of Prior Authorizations Is Near

• The Quest for Clean COVID Claims

• Misconceptions Plague Use of Locum Tenens

• Multilayered Response

• Keep Pace With Disclosure Management Changes

• Get Compliance Efforts in Line

• ROI Processes Adapt to a New World

• How to Expel Acute Respiratory Failure Denials

• For Hackers, It’s as Simple as 1, 2, 3, 4

• Days of Our Lives — A Dive Inside the Intricacies of the Two-Midnight Rule

• The Evolving Cancer Registry Requirements

• Record Release Party

• Leveraging Prebill Audits to Combat Denials

• Keeping Tabs on Right of Access

• Rappin’ About RACs

• Down but Not Out

• Overcoming Obstacles to Obtaining Medical Records

• Balancing Policy and Technology

• Keeping Tabs on Data

• Denial Reasons You Never Saw Coming

• Eight ROI Missteps to Avoid

• Be Mindful of PA Documentation 

• The Labyrinth That Is HIPAA

• Through the Cracks

• Anesthesia Coding: Tips to Maintain Accuracy

• Home Health Agencies Face Documentation Hurdles

• Key Telehealth Regulatory Issues

• What’s Your Business Associate Agreement Strategy?

• Shutdown or Not, Washington Wheels Turn

• Coding Audits Shouldn’t Be Random

• Privacy With a European Flair

• TPE Program Sets Sights on Improper Claims

• Hitting the Mark on Coder Performance

• Medical Record Requests Continue to Challenge Hospitals

• EHRs Pose Malpractice Risk

• Data Breaches: Insights Into a Pervasive Problem

• Fax Machines Still Prevalent

• Is Offshore Coding Dead in the Water?

• Time to Shake Up PEPPER?

• Health Care's BAA Breach Readiness Quandary

• Quality Data Key to New Payment Rule

• Battle Lines Drawn

• Assessing Documentation Quality

• Are Auditors Playing Fair?

• Strategies to Help Providers Respond to Audits

• ROI Vendors Face Confusion Over Fees

• Litigation Evolves With Data Breach Scope, Frequency

• Should Patient Records Stay or Go?

• Coding for Pressure Ulcers, Obesity, and BMI

• Be on the Lookout

• Is Right to Access Being Taken to Excess?

• The Human Errors Behind Data Breaches

• Governance Efforts Shape Reidentification Risks

• Best Practices in Coding Audits

• Reimbursement Analysis Offers Investment Protection

• The Quest for a Better Records Request Strategy

• EHRs Bolster Lack of Authorization Claims

• Desperately Seeking Clinical Validation

• Digital Engagement Demands a Nimble HIPAA Strategy

• Is It Possible to Curtail Copy and Paste?

• What to Consider When Implementing Streaming Video

• Indefatigable RACs Plow Ahead

• New Medicare ID Cards to Impact Providers 

• Privacy Concerns Complicate X-ray Silver Mining 

• Swift Response Can Limit Cyber Attack Damage

• Sticky Query Situations

• Keep an Eye on Exclusion Monitoring

• Discover the Auditor Within

• OCR Puts Audit Controls on the Front Burner

• How to Conquer Compliance Challenges 

• Is Texting Physician Orders 2G2BT?

• Patient Engagement Proving to Be Tricky

• Preventing and Preparing For IoT Attacks

• The 21st Century Cures Act

• Make Patient Privacy a Priority

• ROI Demands on the Rise

• MTSOs Face HIPAA Compliance Challenges

• The Regulatory Challenges of Population Health Management

• Navigating HIPAA-Compliant File Sharing

• What Lies Ahead?

• Record Destruction: When, Which Ones, and How

• OIG Takes Notice of ICD-10 DRG Assignments

• Call In the Reinforcements

• Is Your Hospital Adapting to Network Demands?

• Six Best Practices for Informed Consent

• The 411 on Subpoenas

• At a Disadvantage?

• Subject to Review

• Redefined Sepsis Affects Coding, Documentation

• @Risk-Filled Routine

• Devil of a Time

• Information Governance: A Bright Future in the Cloud

• Unfinished Business

• Put ICD-10 Nightmares to Bed

• Eight Trends in Coder Training

• MACRA, MIPS — Slated to Make an M-pressive Impact

• Disclosure Management in a Risky World

• Legal Concerns in Information Governance

• Mitigate Medical Necessity Denials

• mHealth in the Mental Health Sector

• The Here and Now on Present-on-Admission Indicators

• Next Steps for the EHR Code of Conduct

• Digitization Complicates the ROI Process

• The Essentials of Medical Necessity

• Beware of HIPAA Zealots

• Shootout at the Coding Corral

• A Life Without Meaningful Use

• Bring Nurses Back to the Bedside

• Upping the Ante on Meaningful Use Audits

• This Will Go On Your Permanent Record — Or Will It?

• Copy and Paste: Don't Mess Up a Good Thing

• Long on Potential, Short on Results

• A Delicate Balancing Act

• HIPAA a Back Breaker for Chiropractic Interns

• Rehabilitation Facilities Tackle RA Complexities

• The Deidentification Dilemma

• Take the Pain Out of Revenue Cycle Audits

• What a Patient Wants

• Keep Text Messaging Secure

• So You Want to Be a Privacy Officer?

• Auditors Take Aim at DRGs

• ROI Peak Performers

• Wireless Networks Need HIPAA-Focused Makeover

• Into the Abyss

• MTSOs Gear for OCR Audits

• Has MU Gone Up in Smoke?

• Voice Command Technology Enters the OR

• Educating or Infuriating?

• Boston Data Breach Raises Questions

• The Reward of HIPAA Risk Assessment

• View ICD-10 Audits as an Opportunity

• Twists and Turns in the RAC Program

• Permanent Discharge

• Implementation Through Collaboration

• The RAC Trifecta of Trouble

• The Challenges of Corporate Compliance

• Are Cancer Registrars Ready for ICD-10?

• Disclosure Management — More Complicated Than Ever

• Internal Audits: Steps to Keep Your Programs Pumping

• Remediation and ICD-10

• Risky Business

• Take Steps to Ensure Mobile Device Security

• Aids and Audits

• The Challenges of Capturing Meaningful Use Data

• Inside the Documentation Pressure Cooker

• ICD-10 Mash-Up Thrives in Idaho

• Terminology Tools Help Providers Meet Initiatives

• The New Omnibus Rule

• Meaningful Use Audits Heighten Nerves

• The Essentials of Policy and Procedure Management

• Should Providers Bother With RAC Appeals?

• Providers, Payers Must Be in Step With ICD-10

• Copy and Paste Leads to Coding Headaches

• HIPAA’s Omnibus Rule Makes Its Mark

• Survey Readiness—Are You Prepared if the CMS Arrives at Your Door?

• RACs Take Aim on Short Stays

• ICD-10 Weighs Heavily on Physicians

• Harried CIOs Try to Keep Up With Technology

• Big Year Ahead for Disclosure Management

• Mobile Device Security Concerns

• Setting the Stage for MU’s Next Act

• The Changing Face of Release of Information

• ICD-10: Give Them Something to Talk About

• Meaningful Use Enters Stage 2

• ACOs Face Quality Measure Challenges

• The Nuts and Bolts of IPPS

• The Value of Error Reports

• RAC Frustrations Remain

• Compliance Strategies for the 72-Hour Rule

•  Stage 2 Stretches Meaningful Use Requirements

•  When Is It Time to Part Ways With Medical Records?

•  Make Revenue Cycle Management a Team Effort

•  Precise Documentation Equals Fewer Compliance Headaches

•  Coping With Coding Audits

•  Random HIPAA Compliance Audits Have Arrived

•  The Ins and Outs of Observation Status

•  Cancer Registrars Step Up to New Challenges

•  Licensing Issues Crimp Telemedicine

•  Negotiating Cloud Computing Contracts

•  Are Post-Acute Care Transfers a Goldmine for RAC Audits?

•  Ethical Business Practices in Transcription

•  ICD-10's Reach Goes Beyond HIM

•  Experts Analyze the ACO Reporting Requirements

•  Get It in Writing—BA Agreements Grow in Importance

•  Time to Fear Medicaid RACs

•  Tick, Tick, Tick—The ICD-10 Deadline Approaches

•  The Ins and Outs of the ACO Final Rule

•  How to Dispose of Retired PCs Properly

•  A DIY Approach to EHR Certification

•  State HIEs Face Assessment Deadline

•  Make Admission Orders a Priority

•  Release of Information Management

•  Mobile Devices Create HIPAA Concerns

•  Targets in RAC's Crosshairs

•  Successful Attestation: It's All in the Details

•  Caught in a Coding Conundrum

•  Chart Auditing: How to Spot Documentation Flaws

•  ICD-10 Reality Check: It's More Than a Coding Issue

•  OCR Layin' Down the Law on Noncompliant Providers

•  The Advent of Accountable Care Organizations

•  ICD-10: Two Questions to Ponder

•  Navigating the EHR Certification Process

•  How to Measure Clinical Documentation Improvement Effectiveness

•  Raising Cancer Care

•  Sorting Out Meaningful Use

•  Finding Holes in IT Security

•  HIM Programs Move With the Times

•  The Perils of Copy-Paste

•  Say Hello to Medicaid RACs

•  Hospitals Scramble to Absorb 2011 IPPS Changes

•  MAC Attack

•  PEPPER Reports: A Helpful Financial Condiment

•  Cell Phone Camera Use in Hospitals

•  Unreasonable ROI Request?

•  Bearing the Burden of Meaningful Use

•  Deciding on a Document Destruction Vendor

•  Medicaid Integrity Program Promises New Headaches

•  Hospitals, Physicians Tackle RACs

•  Patch Transcription Security Holes

•  Do Privacy Hurdles Impede Data Exchange?

•  HIPAA Targets: New Rules Place BAs in the Bulls-Eye

•  Pulling It Together — The HITECH Act & HIPAA

•  Ushering in Change: ARRA Adds New Challenges to ROI Requests

•  Coding Checks and Balances

•  Medical Identity Theft: Will the Real John Doe Please Stand Up?

•  The New Red Flags Rule and Healthcare Organizations

•  DRGs: Still Frustrating After All These Years

•  Navigate ROI Nuances

•  RAC Strategies — It's Your Move

•  Coding Manager Compliance Advice

•  Healthcare Technology — It's Not Foolproof

•  Navigate the E-Discovery Maze

•  RAC Appeals: More Than Simple Math

•  Cleaner and Clearer — The Joint Commission Standards Improvement Initiative

•  Maneuvering Your Way Through RAC Audits

•  Chart a Course for Better Documentation

•  Accurate Electronic Patient Charts  — A Standardized Clinical Language Is Key to Success

•  A HIPAA Crackdown?

•  eDiscovery Advice: Get Your Records Network in Order

•  Organization Serves CDI Specialists' Needs

•  Unannounced HIPAA Audits: Don't Get Spooked

•  Dirty Tricks: On the Lookout for Inappropriate DRG Denials

•  CDA4CDT Standards — Satisfying a Craving

•  Times Are Changing — Delivery of Transcribed Reports

•  NAHIT Outlines Five Key HIT Terms

•  Talk of the Town — Guidelines for Better Dictation Practices

•  RACs: New Sheriff in Town