This will really make it difficult for agencies that do hire patients as
part of their mission, vocational rehab, community outreach, destigmatizing,
etc. As a mental health and addiction center, this continues to be one of
the items we discuss over and over. How will we separate this information
I've met with my CFO and our Purchasing Mgr and
we've figured out most of our vendor list. But we had a couple of
questions I hoped someone could help with:
1. What do we do about auditors that come
on-site to review records for payment/compliance. If i read this right, if
the auditor i
I just discussed these with our Risk
Mgr regarding BAA's we receive from others when we are clearly NOT their
BA. My stance is that we should NOT sign these, but the question asked was
"What's the harm?" I believe it would put us in a legal runaround if
there is an inappropriate disclosure
everything we list in the NPP (and it should
list all these as possibilities), we have to track these and record them, providing
them for a pt when requested.
Have I confused different parts of the regs in this interpretation?
Teri Baskett, CISO
LifeSpring Mental Health Services
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On that BA thread, we just recieved a letter from JCAHO wanted us
to complete their BAA form. Following previous messages,
shouldn't I (since I'm the CE) be sending them our form, and we
shouldn't be signing their's?
Teri Baskett, CISO
LifeSpr
We do keep a "billing chart" in our Accts Rec
Dept for copies of insurance cards, any payment plan information, collection
info, etc. It does not contain the "official medical chart"
info.
That being said, copies of the insurance cards are
vital to the medical chart data, because so many
