The Washington legislature unanimously passed a bill in April that will shorten the state’s data breach notification time to 30 days, which is half the time required by HIPAA.
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Washington state tightens protected health information standards, shortens breach notification time
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The Washington legislature unanimously passed a bill in April that will shorten the state’s data breach notification time to 30 days, which is half the time required by HIPAA.
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Using peer recovery specialists to move patients with substance use disorders into treatment
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In Maryland, an innovative program called SBIRIT (Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment) is helping take some of the weight off case managers working with substance use disorder patients by successfully steering those patients into treatment through the use of peer recovery specialists.
 

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Q&A: CPT coding for multiple therapeutic infusions of short duration
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Q: Sometimes providers at our facility perform multiple separate administrations of hydration that are shorter than 30 minutes each. Can coders add the separate infusion times together when assigning time-based CPT codes for hydration administration?

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