ED Documentation and Coding Update Archives – February 1, 2003
February 1, 2003
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HIPAA deadline approaches: Is your documentation ready?
With the April 14 deadline fast approaching, emergency departments must make sure their processes, procedures, and documentation are fully compliant with the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. If theyre not, the consequences could be severe. -
Notice of Privacy Practices: Required Elements
Direct treatment providers, including EDs, soon will be required to provide each patient with detailed information about their privacy practices. The notification must be written in plain language, and must contain the following elements. -
JCAHO documentation: What new process requires
For every ED professional whos had to deal with the onerous and time-consuming preparations for a survey by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, some good news: The Joint Commission has announced a major overhaul of its survey process intended to reduce both the expense and the documentation burden usually associated with accreditation surveys. -
Joint Commission’s new survey process timeline
Here is a timeline for how the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will implement its Shared Visions New Pathways survey process. -
ED documentation system helps improve patient flow
At Sarasota (FL) Memorial Hospital, emergency department case managers have made a significant impact in reducing inappropriate admissions and assuring efficient patient flow. -
The Documentation-Coding Connection - OPPS: The ED Challenge, Part II
Details on billing for ED procedures. -
The Documentation-Coding Connection: What to do now?
Here are several steps you can take now to prepeare for the outpatient prospective payment system, along with a sample charge sheet for EDs to report procedures that are performed separately. -
The Documentation-Coding Connection: Compliance with security rule to require vigilance
A looming deadline for the health care industry to comply with privacy regulations gains more significance with release of an additional 45 pages of regulations that include yet another compliance date.