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A new ruling by the Department of Justice (DOJ) sharply limits the governments ability to prosecute people for criminal violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), but that may lead prosecutors to hold your organization responsible for those violations instead.
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Patient handoff is a high-risk time that many health care workers dont handle as well as they should, cautions Meghan Dierks, MD, MS, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Clinical Decision Making Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in Cambridge.
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Meghan Dierks, MD, MS, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a member of the Clinical Decision Making Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in Cambridge, offers an outline of what information should be exchanged in an ideal patient handoff.
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By Jan J. Gorrie, Esq.
Buchanan Ingersoll PC Tampa, FL
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By Ronald M. Perkin, MD, MA
Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University; Chairman, Committee on Physician Health, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC; and Jay Weaver, JD, EMT-P, Attorney, Private Practice; Adjunct Faculty, Northeastern University, Boston.
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Hospitals covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) may be prosecuted for criminal violations under the act, according to a recent opinion requested by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from the Justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel.
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UB-04 form will be required in 2007; NPI transition plan announced by CMS
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OTC collections increase
A Patient Responsibility Calculator (PRC) dreamed up by an admitting supervisor and brought to fruition by an employee in the reimbursement department enables staff at Sonora (CA) Regional Medical Center to quickly calculate copay amounts and let patients know how much they owe before the service is performed.
