February 2012

Posted By AHIMA Staff on Feb 1, 2012

FULL ACCESS REQUIRES MEMBER LOG IN FEBRUARY 2012 Vol. 83, no. 2 On the Cover Simplification at Last? The HIPAA transaction standards–meant to streamline financial and administrative transactions–have instead devolved into a kind of free-for-all. Now the first operating rules are in hand to standardize use of the standards and gain the efficiencies originally intended. .

Inside

• Metadata and Meaningful Use, by Allison Viola, MBA, RHIA, and Shefali Mookencherry, MPH, MSMIS, RHIA
• Ethics Update: Revisions Strengthen AHIMA’s Code of Ethics, by Sheila Hart-O’Connor

• Identifying Issues in Facility and Provider Mergers and Acquisitions

• The 63rd REC, by Kevin Heubusch
• Communicating through the EHR, by Barry Herrin, JD, CHPS, FACHE; Mary Reeves, RHIA; Cynthia Rupe, RHIA, CPHQ, CPC; Anne Tegen, MHA, RHIA; and Diana Warner, MS, RHIA, CHPS, FAHIMA
• Seeing the Big Picture, by Allison Viola, MBA, RHIA
• Calling HIM Quality Experts, by Chris Dimick

• CY 2012 OPPS Update, by Theresa Rihanek, RHIA, CCS
• CPT Code Updates for 2012, by Karen O’Hara, BS, CCS-P

Past Articles

Print articles back to 1998 are available in the AHIMA Body of Knowledge. (Full access requires member log in.) .