Former orthopedic surgeon Spyros Panos is facing new federal charges for committing healthcare fraud begun while serving a prison sentence for another multimillion dollar healthcare fraud scheme, according to the Department of Justice.
Former orthopedic surgeon Spyros Panos is facing new federal charges for committing healthcare fraud begun while serving a prison sentence for another multimillion dollar healthcare fraud scheme, according to the Department of Justice.
Findings from a field trial recently published in Health Information Management Journal show that a simplified version of ICD-10-CM may be an effective tool in developing countries that have been unable to collect ICD-10-based health statistics.
HIPAA allows patients to request amendments to their medical records. Facilities are not required to automatically make whatever change a patient requests, but they must allow patients to make the requests and follow a specific process for handling them.
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It is common knowledge that Clinical Documentation Improvement and HIM coding are integral to healthcare revenue integrity and accurate classification of the severity of illness of a given patient population.
The ED is a fast-paced environment that presents unique coding and billing challenges. During this 90-minute webinar, Nena Scott, MSEd, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CCDS, and Felisa M. Tennant, MIS, RHIA, CCS, CHPS, will review integumentary and musculoskeletal anatomy to explain potentially confusing procedural documentation elements, while also discussing ICD-10-CM and CPT coding for these conditions.
Researchers look at mortality, length of stay, and total hospital cost per case of hospital-acquired conditions using all-payer data from acute care hospitals.
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