Just a bit more food for thought:)
HIPAA on it’s own as patient privacy appears okay. Anyone outside of front line healthcare workers foresee the impact it would have on law enforcement? How many FTEs needed to be added to an organization just to be compliant?
Don’t accidentally click on the wrong Jim Smith in the system if you don’t have the proper security clearance. It will more than likely lead to disciplinary action.
But it has saved the high profile/famous patients info from
getting to the public.
And on your last one, been there, done that, pulled my hair out along with the biller/coder trying to figure out how to interpret CMS’ new codes and how to run it through without it getting flagged and/or denied.
More good examples there...
Here’s another. The government cuts the number of patients an R. N. can be responsible for at one time. All of a sudden a nurse that could cover six patients, now can only cover four.
FTEs must then be raised by 50%, just to cover the same number of patients. Does the government then raise the rates it will pay for services on that floor? Of course not.
Then folks laugh, when hospitals claim that government regulations are killing them.
And the government itself, damns the hospital for not controlling it’s costs.