tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2017 Issue 11

Practice Management: Ease Patient Requests for PHI With This Form

Let AHIMA guidance help your surgeons. Not only is your general surgery practice required to provide protected health information (PHI) to patients when they request it, but doing so is in everyone's best interest. Fact: Patients armed with their healthcare backgrounds are invested in their care and more willing to follow doctors' orders. Problem: it can be challenging - both for your practice and for patients - to file and fulfill requests to gain access to PHI. Look to Shared Request Form The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) created a new form for providers to "streamline the process...

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