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Agencies must comply with HIPAA when passing patient protected health information (PHI) back and forth. follow these eight tips to protect your patients and agency from breaches: Assess how you and your business associates transmit PHI to each other as part of your regular HIPAA risk analysis. If you uncover any vulnerabilities, resolve them. Ensure […]
CMS issued a proposed rule on May 29 to amend requirements for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ risk adjustment data validation (HHS-RADV) program. The proposal includes changes to two technical aspects of the HHS-RADV program, the error rate calculation, and application of results. CMS outlines the changes in the newly published fact […]
Q: I live in Ohio. For a couple of years now we have completed our HMO residents in the following way: We complete an admission assessment only because we are not to submit PPS assessments on HMO residents. If that resident has a Medicaid number we code that in Section A. Subsequently these assessments are […]