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Almost every aspect of health care has changed significantly over the last five years, let alone the past 30. Most of us can remember when protecting a patients privacy was an ethical issue for hospitals and physicians. Now its a matter of regulatory requirement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
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In these times of dwindling health care reimbursement, theres no phrase more significant to access managers and their bosses than denial management.
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Companies seek URAC security accreditation; HIPAA.ICC.NET started to facilitate transmission
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Now that two significant HIPAA compliance deadlines have passed the April 14 deadline for health care industry compliance with the privacy rule and the April 16 deadline for health care business operations to begin testing transactions and code sets its time to take stock of how far along health care organizations really are when it comes to HIPAA compliance.
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Nancy Stringer, director of patient access at Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, MO, would like to know how other nonprofit hospitals deal with the impact of nearby for-profit providers that have much stricter patient payment policies.
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Being educated is the best defense when it comes to ensuring that your hospital is compliant with the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
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Looking at opportunities for improvement after becoming director of patient access at Childrens Health Care of Atlanta about two years ago, it was natural that Millie Brown would turn her attention to the quality of registration data.
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When two police officers arrived at a hospital emergency department asking to be informed if the facility had treated an elderly woman reported missing by her family, hospital staff contacted their outside legal counsel for advice because of wariness about HIPAA privacy regulations. And its good they did.
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