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Requesting Pictures of Patients' Feet
"The doctors in our practice request patients to text or email them photos of their various foot conditions and post-op P&As to their personal mobile phones. We know this is not HIPAA compliant. What is a better way to handle these situations?"
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FDA Recalls
MIPS
Measure 001: Hemoglobin A1c
Measure 001 requires documentation of the HbA1c level for diabetic patients between the ages of 18-75. This is an inverse measure – this means YOU DO NOT WANT TO MEET THIS MEASURE. The best score for this measure is a 0.
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Coding
Hospital Consultations
“After watching some E/M presentations, it was suggested that hospital consultations should be billed with CPT 99252-CPT 99255. When we billed these codes, our EMR system and our clearing house rejected the codes. They are saying effective 1/1/2010, CMS has announced that they will reject these codes. Are we billing the right codes?”
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Coding
Tibial Sesamoid Pathology
“How do you code for a fracture of the tibial sesamoid? Is it any different if you considered it to be a symptomatic, bipartite tibial sesamoid? What about an avascular necrosis of the tibial sesamoid?”
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HIPAA
PHI: What is Protected Health Information?
Under HIPAA, you are responsible to protect Protected Health Information (PHI). But what exactly is PHI?
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