Practice Management
Friday's Progress Notes - January 25, 2002
Mental Health Information - Vol. 6 Issue 1
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CONTENTS
1. How to get reimbursed for incident-to services
2. Challenging Medicare's failure to reimburse
3. HIPAA tips
4. HIPAA transactions
5. Addressing workplace violence
6. Difference between independent contractors and employees
7. Impaired therapists
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Dear Colleagues,
In December 2001, President Bush signed a bill that extends by one year the compliance date for the Transactions Rule under HIPAA. However, providers are still required to comply with the HIPAA Privacy Rule on schedule. Today's newsletter provides information on HIPAA and other practice management issues.
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Regards,
Jack
John L. Miller, MD
1. FAMILY PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
The Ins and Outs of "Incident-To" Reimbursement
If you work with non-physician providers, you can't afford to ignore the incident-to rules. This article discusses who can bill incident-to, what constitutes an incidental service, what supervision is required, and how to document incident-to services.
www.aafp.org/fpm/20011100/23thei.html
2. APA MONITOR ON PSYCHOLOGY
Bucking the System
A Massachusetts psychologist's legal challenge against Medicare's failure to reimburse makes progress.
http://www.apa.org/monitor/jan02/bucking.html
3. AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
How to "HIPAA" - Top 10 Tips
The AMA is offering physicians these tips, which are thoroughly explained in the free booklet.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/435/hipaa10tips-opt.pdf
4. AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Transaction and Code Set Standards
The HIPAA Transactions and Code Set Standards standardize the format for electronic transactions between physicians and health plans and other entities.
5. ATHEALTH.COM
Workplace Violence
More assaults occur in the healthcare and social services industries than in any other industry.
6. MEDSCAPE
How Should I Pay the Physician Whose Patients I See?
physician has asked me to see his patients for follow-up visits and hospital rounds. He wants me to be an independent contractor and he wants 45% of my billings. How would this work?
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/412476
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Impaired Practitioners
Impairment is the inability to practice with reasonable skill and safety without jeopardy to patient/client care. It can result from substance abuse, addiction, mental or medical illness, unprofessional conduct, and other causal factors.
http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/newsletter/FPN_9_3.html
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