February 2009
AHIMA mailed the first issue of ICD-TEN today, a free e-newsletter on preparing for the transition to ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS. You can subscribe with just an [...]
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the parties involved in the protest over the award of Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) [...]
Last week the Department of Veterans Affairs announced it would pay $20 million to settle a class action lawsuit resulting from a stolen laptop. The case resonated [...]
AHIMA has posted a 13-page analysis of the final rule on the implementation of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS. The summary is a good overview of the lengthier [...]
“Redisclosure of Patient Health Information (Updated),” the practice brief in this month’s print issue, offers guidance on one of HIM’s trickier issues. Redisclosure is the sharing [...]

The February issue examines when organizations should notify patients of a data breach. Other features delve into how to prepare for the Recovery Audit Contractor Program [...]


