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Privately insured patients’ telehealth use up 50-fold during start of pandemic

Source: ACDIS

Telehealth accounted for 24% of outpatient consultations among privately insured, working-age adults during the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic, up from 0.3% for the same period in 2019.

Medical associations urge CMS to pause prior authorization requirements

Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor

The American Medical Association and dozens of specialty physician groups sent a letter to CMS on April 7 urging the agency to delay the implementation of new prior authorization requirements slated to go into effect this summer for certain outpatient services.

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Mitigating risk: The importance of an incident response plan

Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor

Cybercrime is up in the healthcare industry, and it’s a good idea to make sure you’re ready to respond to cyber incidents. The key to speedy mitigation is to have a security incident response plan, test the plan, and make sure it works as you exercise it. Having a plan is also a HIPAA Security Rule requirement.

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Q&A: Leveraging coders to improve HCC accuracy

Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor

Q: We're looking for ways to bring our CDI and coding teams together to improve documenation and coding for appropriate Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) capture. Are there any recommended models and should other departments or individuals be working alongside them?

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