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Patient Administration & Services

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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.