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HIMSS Helps Attendees Engage Patients
By Heather Hogstrom
Patient engagement is an important issue, but organizations must ask themselves if they’re looking at it as a way to simply meet meaningful use requirements or to improve the way they do business. Since patients won’t use the technology if it’s not valuable to them, organizations need to come to patients on their own terms and integrate into what they are already doing.
Several HIMSS sessions covered this concept, including “Engaging Patients Through a Compelling Web Experience,” presented by Joel Arker, director of strategic technology services at PinnacleHealth, and Stephen Roth, vice president and CIO of PinnacleHealth. They defined patient engagement as patients taking responsibility for their health and looking to the physician as a resource and support system to help them be as healthy as possible. They further described engaged patients as those who are educated, set goals for themselves, seek out assistance to meet those goals, and make treatment decisions based on the information they receive.
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AAPC’s Health Conference Connects the Business of Health Care
AAPC’s HEALTHCON, which will be held from April 13 to 16 in Nashville, Tennessee, will offer education and networking opportunities to a wide spectrum of medical professionals, from entry level to expert understanding. This national event will advance all those involved in health care, including coders, billers, payers, practice managers, attorneys, and physicians.
With more than 50 educational sessions (up to 18 CEUs), specialty ICD-10 training, and the ever-popular Anatomy Expo, this year’s event is shaping up to be AAPC’s biggest national conference yet. Also, HEALTHCON will introduce the Business of Healthcare Expo, which features information on financial management, compliance, marketing, and human resources.
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Mobile Heartbeat CURE
Mobile Heartbeat has introduced Mobile Heartbeat CURE (Clinical Urgent REsponse), a HIPAA-compliant smartphone application enabling secure mobile clinical communications. Mobile Heartbeat CURE lets all patient care team members know who else is on the team and view their availability, and provides access to pertinent patient information and lab data. The app’s consolidated communication includes secure texting, voice, caregiver-specific alarms and alerts, easy integration with EMRs, and integration with a facility’s cloud infrastructure. Care team members can use their own smartphone or instantly access a shared phone using their hospital ID badge. Learn more »
Technology Connects Apps to Health Care Organizations
Validic has launched Validic Labs to connect app and device developers with the health care system in an effort to foster faster, more productive health care innovation. Health companies need unfiltered access to the data provided by startups and early-stage companies as well as well-established corporations. App and device developers also need a platform that enables them to easily and efficiently push data to health care companies to better meet their consumers’ needs. Validic Labs provides the platform for data producers and consumers to select the amount and type of data they want to distribute or access. Validic Labs was developed to relieve health companies of the time-consuming and expensive evaluation and integration process as well as help new technologies gain visibility within a large marketplace. By allowing health companies the ability to leverage data from both the well-known apps and devices as well as the newest innovations, Validic Labs empowers HIT to more accurately track patient habits, vitals, and progress. Learn more » |
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This month’s selection:
What’s the proper way to select the J code for a drug when the dosage administered is smaller than the drug vial? For example, my facility has a patient who received a Depo-Medrol injection. The NDC (0009-0306-02) matches up to CPT code J1040 (Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg). However, the patient received only 40 mg of the multidose vial. Should we bill the CPT code that matches up to the NDC or should we bill the HCPCS code that reflects the dosage administered? I should note that the remainder in the vial was not wasted; it could be saved for another patient.
Different Internet articles provide varying guidance on such a matter. Medicare and most payers state that it’s appropriate to bill under J1040 if the remainder of the vial was wasted and could not be used, but what if the remainder is salvaged?
Cristy Donaldson, CPC, CPMA
Coding Manager
Knoxville, Tennessee
Response:
Report the lowest dose (as in the description) and don’t worry about the vial that has less than the amount in the HCPCS description.
— Gail I. Smith, MA, RHIA, CCS-P, is president of Gail I. Smith Consulting and an AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer. |
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