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An ambitious scanning project at Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center in Safford, AZ, has turned mountains and mountains of paper into easily accessible electronic medical records, consent forms, and financial documents.
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Many hospitals arent as committed as they think they are when it comes to point-of-service (POS) cash collection, suggests one of the founding partners of IT Program Associates, an Atlanta-based company that specializes in executive advisory services around revenue cycle and information systems.
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A complaint made years ago by a patient in the emergency department she was overseeing serves as a continual reminder for a former longtime patient access director who conducts customer service seminars at various health care facilities and professional association meetings.
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A recent article published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) focuses on the physical safeguards required to protect electronic health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Acts security rule, which became effective in April 2005.
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Many managed care organizations use care management programs to improve care to members while also saving money. To effectively manage patients care, providers need the most information possible, says an attorney in the Philadelphia office of Pepper Hamilton LLP.
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In the March 25 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published procedures for nonprivacy administrative simplification complaints under HIPAA, along with a description of the procedures the Department of Health and Human Services will follow in reviewing such complaints.
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The Confidentiality Coalition, a group of hospitals, health plans, drug companies, medical device manufacturers, biotech firms, health product distributors, pharmacies, employers, medical teaching colleges, and others, is asking Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt to use his authority to change the HIPAA privacy rules accounting of disclosures requirement.
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An editorial in the February Annals of Epidemiology expresses concern that HIPAAs efforts to enhance patient confidentiality by restricting access to medical records is slowing the progress of critical biomedical research.
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Embracing technology for solutions and fine-tuning the revenue cycle so youll have the capital needed to pay for it will be keynotes of the future for access professionals, says the patient access coordinator for Nebo Systems, a company that specializes in online real-time electronic data processing for the health care industry.
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When a health care provider covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) uses an interpreter to communicate with an individual, that individuals authorization is not required for the disclosure of protected health information to the interpreter, as long as certain conditions are met.
