Health Care Inc., a health care consulting company, was engaged to perform a MS-DRG validation audit of 100 Medicare inpatient claims for ABC Hospital. The inpatient cases to be reviewed were selected by ABC Hospital’s Coding Manager. The Health Care Inc. auditors were provided VPN access to the hospital’s EHR to review the documentation of the selected inpatient cases to validate
The purpose of this assignment is to examine a case study and identify and describe the safeguards and gaps prevalent in securing inpatient data.…