EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

This comprehensive guide provides hospital and revenue cycle leadership with vital insights on preparing for CERT audits and establishing processes for compliant documentation. This section delves into the specific criteria and expectations set by CERT audits, emphasizing the need for meticulous attention to detail and documentation accuracy.

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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

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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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Northwest Career College

JULY 10, 2024

They achieve this by rendering their services for several tasks, which may include: Legal Documents: Draft, review, and edit contracts, briefs, and pleadings. File Management: Organizing and maintaining electronic files and records, ensuring all documents are easily accessible.

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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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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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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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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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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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Mobius MD

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Email newsletters for primary care physicians are a great way to stay current with the latest news, research, and medical best practices. 1 question about team documentation” If those topics spark your interest, visit FPM’s website to sign up.

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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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Valant

APRIL 2, 2024

Performance Reporting: The ability to focus on metrics such as patient retention, insurance aging, and billing documentation status goes a long way towards practice efficiency. Clinical Workflow Improvement EHR data can reveal gaps in care delivery, such as missed appointments or incomplete documentation.

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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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Relias

JULY 4, 2023

This coordinated partnership requires a joint effort toward the common goal of accurate charges, identification and resolution of any discrepancies, and signed documentation indicating completion. Ensure that every member of your revenue cycle management team is performing with current knowledge and best practices.

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Valant

JULY 5, 2024

Streamline Documentation: Use digital forms and automated systems to collect patient information before their first visit. With a large volume of transactions, streamlined RCM practices become even more critical to prevent financial bottlenecks.

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Valant

APRIL 24, 2024

Leveraging Prebuilt Templates for Treatment Plans If capturing concrete goals and objectives in a treatment plan feels demanding on top of everything else treatment plans must document, consider utilizing a library of prebuilt, evidence-based templates to speed and simplify the process. Seek peer review on treatment planning.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Over one-third of health care leaders plan to implement automation in the next 3 years for equipment maintenance and monitoring, clinical documentation and notetaking, and medication management. Least-used yet but most-likely to implement in the next 3 years is automation for workflow prioritization — thing triage for workflow.

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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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Relias

APRIL 27, 2023

Some health plans are refusing to pay claims due to missing documentation to support the need for a procedure. This will require additional education for coding, CDI [clinical documentation integrity teams], and providers,” said Hayes. Revenue cycle staff members then educate colleagues on best practices.

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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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Valant

MARCH 2, 2024

Training should also emphasize the importance of maintaining patient confidentiality and accurately documenting services provided. Staying agile is important for any practice in a field such as behavioral health, where changing regulations and market dynamics can have a big impact.

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Valant

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

A comprehensive treatment plan template tailored for behavioral health promotes standardized and evidence-based care, ensuring that practitioners follow best practices while addressing the unique needs of each individual client. This fosters a collaborative and goal-oriented approach to mental health treatment.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Nursing is dynamic as patients, acuity, staffing, and medical best practices constantly change. The inception of best practices. I work to make nursing care in the hospital safer, more efficient, and lower risk by improving policies, workflow, and documentation practices. Advising on policy formation.

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NHA Now

APRIL 22, 2020

Medical offices and hospitals rely on electronic health records (EHRs) to securely and accurately document patient information. You'll demonstrate you know the most up-to-date information and best practices. Healthcare employers are seeking employees who are comfortable with technology and today's EHR best practices.

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CollaborateMD

MAY 25, 2023

The process involves verifying the patient’s coverage, accurately documenting medical history, submitting claims promptly, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Oncology medical billing requires understanding medical coding to run a successful oncology practices. What is Oncology Medical Billing?

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The HIPAA Journal

MAY 2, 2023

Established in 2013, the event is observed on the first Thursday of May with the goal of improving awareness of the importance of creating complex and unique passwords and adopting password best practices to keep sensitive information private and confidential.

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CollaborateMD

JANUARY 3, 2024

RELATED ARTICLE: Checklist to Ensure HIPAA Compliance at Your Practice Best Practices for HIPAA-Compliant Medical Billing Software As the healthcare industry continues to evolve, it is imperative to have HIPAA compliant medical billing software in place. Ensure staff training and education is ongoing.

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Bell-Brown Medical Institute

APRIL 15, 2022

This person not only has extensive knowledge in all areas related to patient care and documentation maintenance. She/he also knows how best practices to apply these skills every day at work while managing her own schedule like nobody else could do better than herself/himself.

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