Patient Administration & Services
The Patient Administration Division (PAD) is the total functional, informational, organizational, and structural consolidation of accounting, registration, admitting, medical records, and other patient-generated clerical activities in the hospital and outpatient settings. The departments in PAD include:
- Patient Travel
- Admissions & Dispositions (Patient Tracking)
- Release of Information
- Outpatient / Inpatient Records
- Outpatient / Inpatient Coding
- HIPAA & Patient Privacy
- DEERS Enrollment
- Line of Duty Initiation / Secretarial Designee Program (SECDES)
- Birth & Decedent Affairs Services
- Air Evacuation
HIPAA
The Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information (“Privacy Rule”) establishes, for the first time, a set of national standards for the protection of certain health information.
To view our HIPAA Guidlines, please click on this link: WBAMC HIPAA Guidelines.