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Director’s desk: Focusing on the nitty-gritty
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
Having performed discharge planning for many, many years, I’ve learned one key component is now more true than ever: Assessments must be very comprehensive. We are dealing with a wider variety and different mix of patients.
Preparing inpatient coders for the RAs 2017 statement of work
Source: JustCoding
Laura Legg, RHIT, CCS, CDIP, writes about the new round of Recovery Auditor (RA) contracts, and how even the most experienced RA response team will need to understand the new challenges providers face with CMS’ 2017 changes.
ACA programs, seen to address health disparities, now in jeopardy
Source: HealthLeaders Media
Improvement in care has been seen for privately insured low-income patients and for those at federal health centers. Whether those programs will survive the GOP's plans for the Affordable Care Act is uncertain.
OCR updates HIPAA guidance on permissible disclosures
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
Providers may share information with a patient’s loved ones, regardless of whether they are recognized as relatives under applicable laws, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) said in updated HIPAA guidance released January 10.
 

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Q&A: Changing from inpatient to outpatient
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
If the attending physician writes an admission order and later decides that the case should have been outpatient and then writes and order for outpatient, do we still need utilization review involvement and condition code 44 to change to observation?

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