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Are there any listservs for admitting/access departments?— Paula Caster, admitting/communications supervisor at Ridgecrest (CA) Regional Hospital
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued revisions to its interpretive guidelines for the hospital conditions of participation (CoP) in Medicare, including clarifications on how patient grievances should be handled and when a billing complaint is considered a grievance.
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Beginning Oct. 1, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will no longer process electronic Medicare claims for payment unless they comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
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It became very clear that customers of Dayton, OH-based Kettering Medical Center Network were ready for on-line registration soon after the hospital network began testing the process in August 2004, says the director of patient registration and central scheduling.
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Marketing and advance planning were the keys to success when Memphis, TN-based Baptist Memorial Health Care began offering its patients on-line registration, says the corporate director of access operations.
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An innovative homeless shelter — where people who need post-discharge medical care are allowed to stay 24-hours a day — is freeing up hospital beds for more acute patients and providing ongoing benefits to individuals who typically access the health care system only through the emergency department.
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Cooperation and collaboration have been the keys to success in the trial run of a new process for screening orders for medical necessity at the point of care — in the physician’s office — and electronically sending them to the hospital, says the manager of the same-day surgery and presurgical testing departments at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, IL.
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A Department of Justice legal opinion, issued at the request of the Department of Health and Human Services, stated that only covered entities and those people rendered accountable by general principles of corporate criminal liability may be prosecuted under criminal enforcement provisions of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification section.
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The American Hospital Association says it is “troubled” by a Department of Health and Human Services plan to publicize the identity of those covered entities given civil monetary penalties under enforcement of HIPAA’s administrative simplification section.
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The HIPAA transaction standards have not resulted in the uniformity and efficiency envisioned when HIPAA was adopted. That’s the opinion of the HIPAA Implementation Working Group, which were presented in testimony to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics.
