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What is a PBRA (Privacy & Breach Risk Assessment)
A Privacy and Breach Risk Assessment (PBRA) is a systematic process used by organizations to evaluate potential privacy risks and the likelihood and impact of data breaches associated with handling personal or sensitive information. It is typically conducted to ensure compliance with privacy laws, regulations, and organizational policies while minimizing risks to individuals whose data is collected, processed, or stored.
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FDA Recalls
Practice Management
Take a Deep Dive into Accounts Receivable
If you haven’t done so already, employ the help of your biller, billing company or a seasoned administrative staff member to clean up both insurance and patient aging.
Start with insurance aging to ensure patient balances are correct before attempting to collect one last time this year.
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Coding
Sufficiently Detailed Exam: Routine Foot Care
“Can you describe what is a “sufficiently detailed exam” to confirm the diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease? I was audited and the debridement of calluses were denied even documentation of every single class finding were listed. Are we supposed to do ankle brachial indexes, Buerger’s test, etc.? Why have class findings if they do not qualify as “sufficiently detailed?”
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HIPAA
Why a Compliance Risk Assessment? Why Now?
Doctors have a hard enough time treating patients and dealing with basic business operations on a day-to-day basis. It’s a difficult task to ask them to be aware of and in compliance with every section of health care regulatory laws and other standards in addition to their daily provision of care to patients. Simply stated, doctors and other health care professionals and providers face an enormous challenge trying to be aware of, understand, and comply with applicable state and federal health care regulatory laws.
Consequently, health care professionals and providers are often completely in the dark on what it takes to spot compliance issues and prevent them from happening before they become serious issues. This level of awareness (or lack of it) can be summed up in one simple statement. You don’t know what you don’t know. And not having this knowledge can lead to devastating consequences.
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FDA Recalls