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    Home » Newsletters » Hospital Payment Information Management Archives

    Hospital Payment Information Management Archives

    June 1, 2003

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    Hospital Payment Information Management 2003-06-01

    Coding professionals don’t come a dime a dozen, so retention is key

    Jobs are in short supply in many industries throughout the country, but health care is looking for a few good workers — and not just nurses. Hospitals are finding it hard to locate and keep medical coders. Read More

    Scanning system boosts registration efficiency

    Registrars at the University Hospital of Arkansas in Little Rock are saving time and paper and creating more accessible records by scanning patients’ insurance and health information into the hospital’s computer system, says Mary Nellums, CHAM, admissions manager. Read More

    What you don’t know about APCs can hurt you

    Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on improving emergency department reimbursement under ambulatory payment classifications. Read More

    Think you’re exempt from the therapy cap?

    Here’s an issue you may not have considered amid all the headaches of Medicare’s pending $1,590 outpatient therapy cap. Read More

    Take a deep breath; then prepare for EDI deadline

    Just as hospitals take a breath after rushing to make sure they are in compliance with the privacy standard, it’s time to get in gear for the upcoming transaction code-set deadline mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which is Oct. 16, 2003. Read More

    Technology helped facility with HIPAA compliance

    For Baystate Health System, a $1 billion integrated health system operating in western Massachusetts, compliance with the privacy standard of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has been seen as more than a technology issue. Read More

    Payment processes could be changed under HIPAA

    Medical Banking Project founder John Casillas says one of the changes in the final Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) security rule eliminated any requirement to encrypt electronically transmitted protected health information, even over the Internet or other open networks. Read More

    New privacy issue not about HIPAA

    There’s a new patient confidentiality development that HIM personnel should know about, and it has nothing to do with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy standard. Read More

    News Briefs

    More help sought for rural hospitals; HCA changes policies to give more financial aid; HHS funds centers to serve uninsured Read More

    DRG Coding Advisor: Critical care billing requires careful documentation

    When does critical care become just another emergency department (ED) visit? When you fail to document it properly. You may do all the right things for a patient in crisis, but if the paperwork isn’t done properly, you don’t get paid for your efforts. Read More

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    Table Of Contents

    Coding professionals don’t come a dime a dozen, so retention is key

    Scanning system boosts registration efficiency

    What you don’t know about APCs can hurt you

    Think you’re exempt from the therapy cap?

    Take a deep breath; then prepare for EDI deadline

    Technology helped facility with HIPAA compliance

    Payment processes could be changed under HIPAA

    New privacy issue not about HIPAA

    News Briefs

    DRG Coding Advisor: Critical care billing requires careful documentation

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