Urology Coding Alert

Practice Management:

Be Wary of PHI Disclosures, or Potentially Pay the Price Later

Don’t let incidental info sharing get your practice in hot water. Protecting patients’ personal health information is one of the most important things your practice can do. While some aspects of complying with Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) guidelines are relatively simple, others can get tricky. One of those is incidental disclosures, especially concerning “reasonable use” of protected [...]
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