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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mark McClellan said the federal government will not process incoming non-HIPAA-compliant Medicare claims submitted for payment on and after Oct. 1, 2005. That decision ended a portion of CMS' HIPAA contingency plan that was in effect since Oct. 16, 2003, under which Medicare continued accepting noncompliant claims after the deadline.
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The Department of Health and Human Services published in the Sept. 23 Federal Register a proposal for adoption of standards for certain attachments to electronic health care claims under HIPAA. The proposed standard would require doctors, hospitals, and other covered entities to use certain transactions, messaging standards, and a new code set when they electronically request the additional information and provide the information in response to the request related to health plans processing claims.
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When Hurricane Wilma hit the east coast of Florida on Oct. 24, 2005, staff at Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart were able to do "more laughing than crying,"...
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Although Children's Hospital of Alabama in Birmingham ... contracts with a company to do internal customer service surveys, the time lag between patient visits and follow-up phone calls can leave something to be desired ...
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Most hospitals interviewed in 2005 in 12 U.S. communities had recently changed their pricing, billing, and collection policies for low-income, uninsured patients ...
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Baylor Health Care - which began automating the check-in process at its Sammons Breast Imaging Center in Dallas more than a year ago - is now extending the concept throughout the health system.
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Leading practice patient access professionals are keenly aware of the need to have a formal performance monitoring program in place.
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When the physician billing department at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Medical Center in Little Rock urgently requested that hospital registrars enter the patient's name ...
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When James Webster read in the October 2005 edition of Hospital Access Management that Admitting/Communications Supervisor Paula Caster, with Ridgecrest (CA) Regional Hospital, could find no free electronic mailing lists,...
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Central line-associated bloodstream infection (BSI) is the third most common nosocomial infection reported from the medical/surgical intensive care unit (ICU) setting (after ventilator-associated pneumonia and catheter-associated urinary tract infection). Approximately 250,000 central line-associated BSIs occur annually in the United States.
