Download or read book Understanding Hospital Billing and Coding written by Debra P. Ferenc and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Updated Claim Forms chapter covers the UB-04 claim form. - Updated information covers diagnosis and procedural coding, with guidelines and applications. - Updated claim forms and names are used throughout.

Download or read book Employee Benefits Answer Book written by Dorinda D. DeScherer and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 1682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employee Benefits Answer Book provides comprehensive guidance for those involved in the design and administration of employee benefit plans. The Q&A format is ideal for probing key topics such as: Health care reform COBRA continuation coverage Retiree health care coverage Health coverage portability requirements Group long-term care insurance Dependent care assistance Adoption assistance Vacation and severance pay plans Death benefits Financing employee benefits Financial accounting for employee benefits And more! Employee Benefits Answer Book will help you: Set the best Health Care Reform strategy for your company and your clients Keep in compliance with current and coming requirements Find clear answers to hundreds of employee benefits questions Avoid costly errors related to employee benefits administration Resolve employee benefits issues quickly and effectively And much more! The Thirteenth Edition provides up-to-date coverage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including: Transition rules leading to full implementation of the employer shared responsibility requirements in 2015 Guidance on when employer-provided health coverage provides minimum value Latest figures for determining affordability of employer-provided health coverage Rules governing the interplay of orientation periods with the new limits on waiting periods for health coverage And more! Additionally Employee Benefits Answer Book has been updated to include discussions of: New guidance on stop-loss insurance The Supreme Court’s weighing in on vesting of retiree health benefits Final regulations on payment of retiree health premiums by a pension or annuity plan DOL issuance of updated COBRA continuation coverage notices that reflect the Health Exchange option And more!

Download or read book Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes written by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQ and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.

Download or read book Screening Sandy Hook written by Deanna Spingola and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most parents would never consider dispensing deadly addictive street drugs to their children but if a trusted physician writes a prescription for an FDA-approved schedule 2 medication for their two-year old based on some questionable mental health screening, those unwary parents do not question or object. Despite side effect warnings, regularly revealed during TV ads, parents frequently fail to take those warnings seriously, perhaps presuming that the side effects are happenstance or rarely occur. Over the decades, because organized psychiatry, represented by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), convened numerous consensus panels that designed hundreds of non-biologically-based disorders for its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) especially suitable for the pill-for-every-ill pharmaceutical industry that conceivably already had many profitable solutions for the disorders, in the pre-production process. The consequences have been disastrous with no discernable end in sight some people taking prescription drugs or withdrawing from them have perpetrated school, mall and public shootings. That is in addition to thousands of suicides that the public never hears about, unless the victim is a well-known public figure like Robin Williams. Just the military-related suicide rate is 8,000 per year untold numbers of these are the result of the psych drug cocktails doled out by psychiatrists working for the VA. The government is big pharmas largest customer. In addition to the homicides and suicides, irreversible brain damage results from drug remedies to temporary problems that might have been easily resolved through compassionate interaction and talk therapy. Despite the claims that drugs were not a factor in the Sandy Hook mass murders, certain circumstances provide a different picture. Adam Lanza, always a unique individual, changed from being a geeky, weird kid to being a mass murderer, not of people his own age, but of beautiful, vulnerable children feeling secure in their classrooms in a sleepy bedroom community in Connecticut.

Download or read book The Counselor and the Law written by Anne Marie Wheeler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eighth edition provides a current and comprehensive discussion of counselors’ legal and ethical responsibilities, an examination of state and federal laws as they relate to practice, and helpful risk management strategies. Attorney Nancy Wheeler and Burt Bertram, a private practitioner and counselor educator, offer real-world practical tips to help navigate professional risks while providing competent clinical care. New or updated topics include matters surrounding informed consent, current case law on duty to warn/protect and issues surrounding suicide in college/university settings, electronic records and ransomware concerns, and updates on state licensure board data regarding boundary violations. The authors' legal and ethical decision-making model will assist counselors and students with processing their own legal and ethical dilemmas, and the ACA Code of Ethics is included as a handy reference. *Requests for digital versions from ACA can be found on www.wiley.com *To request print copies, please visit the ACA https://imis.counseling.org/store/detail *Reproduction requests for material from books published by ACA should be directed to [email protected]

Download or read book Emergency Department Compliance Manual written by Rusty McNew and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emergency Department Compliance Manual, 2017 Edition provides everything you need to stay in compliance with complex emergency department regulations. The list of questions helps you quickly locate specific guidance on difficult legal areas such as: Complying with COBRA Dealing with psychiatric patients Negotiating consent requirements Obtaining reimbursement for ED services Avoiding employment law problems Emergency Department Compliance Manual also features first-hand advice from staff members at hospitals that have recently navigated a Joint Commission survey and includes frank and detailed information. Organized by topic, it allows you to readily compare the experiences of different hospitals. Because of the Joint Commission's hospital-wide, function-based approach to evaluating compliance, it's been difficult to know specifically what's expected of you in the ED. Emergency Department Compliance Manual includes a concise grid outlining the most recent Joint Commission standards which will help you learn what responsibilities you have for demonstrating compliance. Plus, Emergency Department Compliance Manual includes sample documentation that hospitals across the country have used to show compliance with legal requirements and Joint Commission standards: Age-related competencies Patient assessment policies and procedures Consent forms Advance directives Policies and protocols Roles and responsibilities of ED staff Quality improvement tools Conscious sedation policies and procedures Triage, referral, and discharge policies and procedures And much more!

Download or read book Returning Individual Research Results to Participants written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When is it appropriate to return individual research results to participants? The immense interest in this question has been fostered by the growing movement toward greater transparency and participant engagement in the research enterprise. Yet, the risks of returning individual research resultsâ€"such as results with unknown validityâ€"and the associated burdens on the research enterprise are competing considerations. Returning Individual Research Results to Participants reviews the current evidence on the benefits, harms, and costs of returning individual research results, while also considering the ethical, social, operational, and regulatory aspects of the practice. This report includes 12 recommendations directed to various stakeholdersâ€"investigators, sponsors, research institutions, institutional review boards (IRBs), regulators, and participantsâ€"and are designed to help (1) support decision making regarding the return of results on a study-by-study basis, (2) promote high-quality individual research results, (3) foster participant understanding of individual research results, and (4) revise and harmonize current regulations.

Download or read book Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the realm of health care, privacy protections are needed to preserve patients' dignity and prevent possible harms. Ten years ago, to address these concerns as well as set guidelines for ethical health research, Congress called for a set of federal standards now known as the HIPAA Privacy Rule. In its 2009 report, Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research, the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Health Research and the Privacy of Health Information concludes that the HIPAA Privacy Rule does not protect privacy as well as it should, and that it impedes important health research.

Download or read book A Dentist s Guide to the Law written by American Dental Association and published by American Dental Association. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resource addresses the wide array of new and longstanding legal issues relevant to dental practices in a user-friendly format with additional related references and resources in each chapter. With sample contracts, checklists, and other helpful supplementary materials. Includes e-book access.

Download or read book Emergency Department Compliance Manual 2019 Edition written by McNew and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emergency Department Compliance Manual provides everything you need to stay in compliance with complex emergency department regulations, including such topics as legal compliance questions and answers--find the legal answers you need in seconds; Joint Commission survey questions and answers--get inside guidance from colleagues who have been there; hospital accreditation standard analysis--learn about the latest Joint Commission standards as they apply to the emergency department; and reference materials for emergency department compliance. The Manual offers practical tools that will help you and your department comply with emergency department-related laws, regulations, and accreditation standards. Because of the Joint Commission's hospital-wide, function-based approach to evaluating compliance, it's difficult to know specifically what's expected of you in the ED. Emergency Department Compliance Manual includes a concise grid outlining the most recent Joint Commission standards, which will help you understand your compliance responsibilities. Plus, Emergency Department Compliance Manual includes sample documentation and forms that hospitals across the country have used to show compliance with legal requirements and Joint Commission standards. Previous Edition: Emergency Department Compliance Manual, 2018 Edition, ISBN: 9781454889427¿

Download or read book Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act written by American Dental Association and published by American Dental Association. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Section 1557 is the nondiscrimination provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This brief guide explains Section 1557 in more detail and what your practice needs to do to meet the requirements of this federal law. Includes sample notices of nondiscrimination, as well as taglines translated for the top 15 languages by state.

Download or read book The Belmont Report written by United States. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emergency Department Compliance Manual 2018 Edition written by McNew and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emergency Department Compliance Manual provides everything you need to stay in compliance with complex emergency department regulations, including such topics as legal compliance questions and answers--find the legal answers you need in seconds; Joint Commission survey questions and answers--get inside guidance from colleagues who have been there; hospital accreditation standard analysis--learn about the latest Joint Commission standards as they apply to the emergency department; and reference materials for emergency department compliance. The Manual offers practical tools that will help you and your department comply with emergency department-related laws, regulations, and accreditation standards. Because of the Joint Commission's hospital-wide, function-based approach to evaluating compliance, it's difficult to know specifically what's expected of you in the ED. Emergency Department Compliance Manual includes a concise grid outlining the most recent Joint Commission standards, which will help you learn understand your compliance responsibilities. Plus, Emergency Department Compliance Manual includes sample documentation and forms that hospitals across the country have used to show compliance with legal requirements and Joint Commission standards. Previous Edition: Emergency Department Compliance Manual, 2017 Edition, ISBN: 9781454886693

Download or read book Making Healthcare Green written by Nina S. Godbole and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers examples of how data science, big data, analytics, and cloud technology can be used in healthcare to significantly improve a hospital’s IT Energy Efficiency along with information on the best ways to improve energy efficiency for healthcare in a cost effective manner. The book builds on the work done in other sectors (mainly data centers) in effectively measuring and improving IT energy efficiency and includes case studies illustrating power and cooling requirements within Green Healthcare. Making Healthcare Green will appeal to professionals and researchers working in the areas of analytics and energy efficiency within the healthcare fields.

Download or read book Kinn s Medical Assisting Fundamentals E Book written by Brigitte Niedzwiecki and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the clinical and administrative competencies you need to succeed as a Medical Assistant! Kinn's Medical Assisting Fundamentals, 2nd Edition covers the administrative and clinical knowledge, skills, and procedures that are essential to patient care. A reader-friendly approach and focus on foundational content — including medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, basic math calculations, and soft skills — provide a solid foundation for the key skills and procedures at the heart of Medical Assisting practice. An applied learning approach organizes content around realistic case scenarios. The 2nd edition adds coverage of intravenous procedures, catheterization, and limited-scope radiography to address competencies approved in many states. This practical text will prepare you to launch a successful Medical Assisting career! - Easy-to-understand writing style is appropriate for all levels of learners in all types of Medical Assisting programs. - Emphasis on foundational content includes in-depth coverage of anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, basic math calculations, and job readiness to build a strong base of knowledge. - Illustrated, step-by-step procedure boxes demonstrate how to perform and document key administrative and clinical skills. - Content supports Medical Assisting certification test plans to help you prepare for board examinations. - Real-world scenario in each chapter presents a situation for you to follow as you read through the material, helping you understand and apply key concepts as they are presented. - Learning features include key terms and definitions, Being Professional boxes, study tips, critical thinking exercises, and review and summary sections, all focusing on developing the soft skills that employers seek when hiring. - Chapter learning tools include terms with definitions, study tips, critical thinking boxes, and review and summary sections. - Medical Terminology boxes highlight chapter-related medical terms to help you learn word parts, pronunciation, and definitions. - Evolve website includes skills videos, chapter quizzes, five practice certification exams, and a portfolio builder. - NEW chapters on intravenous procedures and limited-scope radiography provide coverage of expanded Medical Assisting functions approved in many states. - NEW! Expanded content addresses behavioral health, catheterization procedures, disease states, medical office organization, expanding MA roles, and more.

Download or read book Study Guide for Kinn s The Administrative Medical Assistant E Book written by Alexandra Patricia Adams and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get more practice with medical assisting competencies and test your critical thinking skills! Designed to reinforce your understanding of Kinn’s The Administrative Medical Assistant: An Applied Learning Approach, 8th Edition by Alexandra P. Adams, this study guide offers a complete review of content and a wide range of exercises to help you master CAAHEP and ABHES competencies and prepare for your career in medical assisting. A variety of exercises test your knowledge and critical thinking skills, including vocabulary review, multiple choice, fill in the blank, and true/false questions. The most current content and competencies associated with CAAHEP and ABHES are included, such as emergency preparedness, patient education, and documentation. Procedure checklists allow you to tear out each sheet and submit to your instructor for evaluation. Additional exercises enhance learning with skills and concepts, word puzzles, case studies, workplace applications, and Internet activities. Work documentation proves to your instructor and to accrediting organizations that you have completed each competency. UPDATED coverage of the Electronic Health Record ensures that you are familiar with the technology you'll use on the job. UPDATED content reflects revisions to the Kinn’s The Administrative Medical Assistant, 8th Edition textbook. Expanded coverage of emergency preparedness helps you meet specific CAAHEP and ABHES requirements.

Download or read book Part Study Guide for Kinn s the Medical Assistant written by Deborah B. Proctor and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PART - Study Guide for Kinn's The Medical Assistant