Health Prime

MAY 30, 2024

Implement robust coding and documentation practices Accurate medical coding and detailed documentation are crucial elements in preventing underpayments. Therefore, it is important to ensure your staff is well-trained in coding practices and emphasize the importance of thorough documentation to support the services provided.

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Coronis Health

AUGUST 10, 2023

Best practices in hospital billing and coding processes are key to guiding coders as they navigate the complexities of chart documentation. Revision of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, changing the way providers are reimbursed for evaluation and management services, which affects coding and documentation requirements.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 1, 2019

The move to value-based care not only impacts the approach providers take to serving their patients, but it also changes the way they document, account for, and bill patients — quickening billing cycles and creating a need for better cost containment. By Marvin Luz, senior director of revenue cycle management transformation, Greenway Health.

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Health Prime

OCTOBER 3, 2024

After all, detailed documentation is essential for selecting the most accurate codes. Verify laterality: Always double-check that the breast cancer’s laterality (right, left, or bilateral) is correctly documented and coded. Learn more about outsourcing your coding processes by reaching out to us at sales@hpiinc.com.

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We Care Online

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Healthcare is an ever-evolving field, with new medications, guidelines, and best practices constantly emerging. Knowing that youre current with the latest information and best practices can give you peace of mind as you carry out your duties. Proper documentation is crucial for continuity of care and legal compliance.

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Relias

MARCH 4, 2024

CASP has provided several resources to help providers understand best practices for delivering ABA treatment via telehealth, including ways to optimize the experience for clients. After you have signed off from the telehealth session, gather any questions required for follow up and be sure to complete any necessary documentation.

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Health Prime

JULY 18, 2024

Claim denials can occur for various reasons, including incorrect patient information, coding errors, lack of prior authorization, incomplete documentation, and non-covered services. How can medical practices prevent claim denials? What are the common reasons for claim denials? Preventing claim denials requires a proactive approach.

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Health Prime

MARCH 21, 2024

Accurate coding and documentation process Ensuring staff members are well-trained in accurate coding and documentation is critical to preventing coding errors that could result in claim denials or delays in reimbursement. Healthcare practices can stay agile in a rapidly evolving industry by harnessing the power of technology and data.

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Valant

APRIL 17, 2024

However, managing these plans at scale is a complex task that often creates headaches for clinicians and directors in large outpatient behavioral health practices. If you’re struggling to manage the logistics of treatment plan documentation and wondering how you’ll cope in light of practice growth, be encouraged.

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Valant

JULY 16, 2024

What’s the difference between them, and is your practice compliant with the privacy regulations for each type? Failing to follow best practices for therapy notes and progress notes can have legal and professional repercussions. What are Therapy Notes? Therapy notes are a clinician’s private record of their patient encounters.

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Health Prime

JUNE 22, 2023

This rapid growth must encourage gastroenterology practices to ensure a streamlined revenue cycle and maximize reimbursements. Therefore, adopting best practices in medical billing is essential. Best practices for efficient gastroenterology medical billing 1. At Health Prime, we can help!

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2024

A lawsuit was filed over the data breach alleging BioPlus should have prevented the breach and could have if reasonable cybersecurity measures had been implemented and industry-standard security best practices had been followed. BioPlus has not admitted liability or any wrongdoing related to the cyberattack and data breach.

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Valant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Practices may face administrative challenges, such as potentially restructuring their care delivery models. The Role of Specialized EHR Systems in Adapting to Regulatory Changes EHR systems tailored for behavioral health can help practices stay compliant with changing regulations.

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Valant

MARCH 30, 2024

Complete and accurate documentation is a crucial part of the therapy intake process. A patient’s medical history, presenting concerns, treatment preferences, and any relevant psychosocial factors should all be documented. It ensures that important information is recorded for future reference and can be used as a baseline.

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Valant

AUGUST 20, 2024

Become familiar with the mandates and best practices that will contribute to a safe and effective treatment environment: Maintain confidentiality. Documentation: How will you document the group session along with assessing each individual as needed? Therapists are legally bound by confidentiality.

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Valant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Group therapy involves unique documentation and coding practices that can significantly impact your bottom line. These codes are used to document the services provided within a group context. Accurate Documentation for Group Therapy Accurate documentation is the cornerstone of successful reimbursement.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

JUNE 28, 2024

RAG (retrieval augmented generation) is a way to provide documents or outside information to AI systems. An example would be providing a list of best-practice survey questions to an AI system in advance, allowing for more precise responses to future inquiries about generating survey content.

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Valant

OCTOBER 23, 2024

CPT Codes for Psychotherapy Coding Best Practices To select the correct code: Accurately track session duration Consider the complexity of the session Use add-on codes when appropriate Document thoroughly to support your code selection and protect against audits.

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CollaborateMD

AUGUST 5, 2024

Then review best practices in implementing AI into medical billing. This ensures that documentation is compliant. Transforming your practice’s technology may receive pushback from some staff. For AI to be practical and provide value, you should integrate it throughout the entire claims process.

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EvidenceCare

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

By standardizing best practices at scale, organizations can provide high-quality care to all while maintaining fiscal responsibility. Prioritizing Technology In healthcare, technology often generates excitement, but leaders must focus on achieving practical impact. And a big one is around the documentation burden on caregivers.

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Valant

JANUARY 30, 2024

Common audit requirements help providers maintain practices that align with the highest standards of care. Data Collection and Documentation What’s involved in insurance audits varies. Typically, auditors review clinical and financial data during mental health practice audits.

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Valant

OCTOBER 6, 2024

By providing practitioners with pre-written, customizable content, the planners make it possible to reduce time spent on documentation , allowing for more focus on direct patient care. In solo practices, this can mean being able to see more clients or to allocate more time to complex cases.

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Mobius MD

JULY 1, 2024

Nobody likes paperwork, but practicing medicine requires a lot of it. Between EHR documentation, inbox management, prior authorizations, and other clerical tasks, it’s a wonder physicians have time to care for patients. Now, they face growing demands associated with documentation and regulatory compliance.

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Medical Gas Compliance

AUGUST 3, 2023

TJC approves changes to its National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) to address the best practices to achieve patient safety. We provide quick access to compliance documentation when you need it and identify maintenance issues before becoming patient issues.

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Relias

MAY 13, 2024

Education and teamwork simulation training can help ensure the best outcomes. Nurses must have a robust knowledge of nursing maneuvers for shoulder dystocia and best practices for supporting the provider during the shoulder dystocia delivery process. What causes shoulder dystocia?

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

For years, law enforcement has bypassed traditional means of securing evidence by informal requests for documents from witnesses of crimes. At some point, that practice bled over into informal requests for healthcare providers’ documents, including documents reflecting protected health information (PHI).

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This essential document will help you plan your social media content. The CQC does offer some best practice guidance with each of the quality statements. You can download the planner here. Download now Looking back at 2023 - Our most-read blogs - What a whirlwind of a year 2023 was!

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Mobius MD

JANUARY 24, 2024

Medical dictation can shave off hours of documentation time each week if you have the correct workflow. However, developing a system that allows you to get your notes done before leaving the office takes time and practice. Recalling patient details is slow because of the time lag between visits and documentation.

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

To improve your revenue cycle, streamline billing workflows to reduce charge entry and submission delays, analyze denial reasons and address recurring issues, and train staff on best practices for prompt and accurate payment posting. At Health Prime , we understand the complexities of managing a medical practice.

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Arkenea

JULY 8, 2024

According to the HIPAA Journal, ‘The HIPAA retention requirements are that certain documents must be maintained for six years from the date of their creation or from the date they were in effect, whichever is later.’ There are requirements for how long other HIPPA documents must be retained.

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Medical Advantage

MARCH 8, 2024

This article delves into the key features and capabilities of athenaClinicals to help you decide if it is the right fit for your practice. Mobile access provides healthcare professionals securely retrieve document care encounters, view patient data, and manage tasks from anywhere at any time.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

JULY 18, 2023

For more standard situations, a best practice is for the assigned owner to contact the customer within two to five business days. A simple three-step process for the “owners” of the follow-up is to review the customer’s feedback, call the customer, and document the outcomes.

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Valant

APRIL 1, 2024

Compliance Furthermore, adherence to regulatory requirements and best practices is a need throughout any EHR migration. Practices must ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations and other industry standards to protect patient data privacy and security during the migration process.

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Relias

DECEMBER 22, 2023

While this is frustrating, these obstacles are well-known and documented, allowing you to make a plan to avoid them. Best practices for promoting community inclusion The role of direct support and other IDD professionals in promoting community inclusion requires different approaches than traditionally practiced.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Last month, a document synthesized a vision for transforming health and care in a digital single market , adopted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). First, some context: in 1957, six European nation-states came together to create the European Economic Community (France, West Germany, Italy, and the Benelux countries).

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Health Prime

DECEMBER 18, 2024

To improve your revenue cycle, streamline billing workflows to reduce charge entry and submission delays, analyze denial reasons and address recurring issues, and train staff on best practices for prompt and accurate payment posting. At Health Prime , we understand the complexities of managing a medical practice.

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Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

Recent additions to this blog and its various channels: General Optimization Training - March/April Sessions Available Launch 8 Launch 8 Countdown Checklist T-minus 60: Get Ready for Patient Movement (last Fundamentals session March 15) T-minus 58: Register for Personalization Training T-minus 56: Get Ready for Billing T-minus 53: Consider UserWeb (..)

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