Medical Records White Papers
These white papers from leading Medical Records experts provide great insight and research on timely relevant Medical Records topics.
January 13, 2012
Medical Records Professionals Medical records hold innumerable amounts of data about you as a person; many, therefore, consider medical records to be more sensitive information than even credit card numbers or utility bills. In an effort to protect this information, the federal government passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Acts of 1996, which requires physicians to take further steps to protect the privacy and security of their patients' medical information.
June 2, 2011
LaBella S. Alvis, D. Leon Ashford and A. Courtney Crowder The importance of documentation, highlights of documentation issues and pros and cons regarding handling documentation issues is covered.
May 5, 2011
Ester Harn, CPC and Cheryl C. House, RMC, CHI
Facts
- One in every five Medicare beneficiaries is hospitalized one or more times each year.
- There are almost 5,000 inpatient acute-care hospitals nationwide that treat these beneficiaries.
- Of the approximately $300 billion dollars spent on the Medicare program each year, almost $100 billion is spent on inpatient services.
- Over three quarters of these hospitals are paid under the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS), while nearly one quarter are paid based on costs and are called Critical Access Hospitals.
