Cameo Corporate Services Limited Healthcare Outsourcing Vice President Ashok Bagdy is responsible for managing outsourcing services for medical transcription and overseeing medical coding procedures. Due to a 2014 mandate by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), medical field professionals, such as Ashok Bagdy, are preparing for a transition to the new edition of the International Classification of Diseases, otherwise known as the ICD-10. Established in the United States in 1994, the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) serves as the standard diagnostic tool for health management, epidemiology, and clinical needs. Professionals throughout the health-care community use it to classify and monitor diseases and other health problems and retrieve diagnostic information from past records. In April 2014, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act, which called for the transition to the ICD-10 from the currently used ICD-9, was signed into law. The ICD-10 includes important updates that address two of the primary concerns with the ICD-9: advancing technology and inaccurate measure of care quality. In its current form, the ICD’s classification system lacks the ability to accurately reflect current technology and advances in medical treatment. For instance, the ICD-9 assigns a single code to significantly different procedures due to limitations in the coding system. Furthermore, the lack of precise codes makes it difficult for the health-care industry to accurately measure the quality of care using the ICD-9. At present, the United States is the only industrialized nation still using the ICD-9. Others have already made the transition to an ICD-10-based system. The ICD-10 diagnostic classification system consists of over 68,000 diagnosis codes and provides code titles and language that compliment accepted clinical practice in the United States. In addition, to classify procedure codes, it includes the ICD-10-PSC, which expands on codes used in the ICD-9 and contains 87,000 procedure codes. Health-care professionals and organizations are required to complete the transition process by October 1, 2015.
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With experience in outsourcing operations and the medical transcription industry, Ashok Bagdy has overseen all aspects of e-publishing and transcription outsourcing for Cameo Corporate Services Limited since 2003. As part of his duties, Ashok Bagdy ensures that the medical transcription services follow HIPAA compliance guidelines. Recently amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act in 2009, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act has been in place for nearly 20 years. HIPPA establishes guidelines for the use of protected health information and sets the fines for information and security breaches caused by health care providers and their business associates. Health care entities are required to provide multiple layers of protection to safeguard patients’ confidential health care information. -Physical protections. Most basically, physical protections require that only approved individuals have access to identifying patient health information. Workstations should have secure receptacles for physical patient information to be shredded. -Technical protections. Access to health information should be protected by a unique username or password. Even after an individual has access to health information, he or she is required to access only health information relevant to his or her job responsibilities. -Policy protections. Every company, whether a business affiliate or care provider, and no matter how large or small, is required to have a standard policy for use and protection of health information. |
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