Have you gotten your clinicians buy-in for documentation? Now that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has confirmed the go-live date for ICD-10— October 1, 2015— providers must focus on making their ICD-10 readiness a top priority. The growing and dominant interest continues to be Clinical Documentation.
Recognizing the Tell-Tale Signs and Stopping it Before it Starts The economic downswing makes it more challenging to hire extra help, reward employees with raises, and spend extra time mitigating problems when they surface at work or at home. But overworking the office staff leads to burnout, sapping productivity, breeding discontent, and potentially leading …
Sights Set on Keeping Medical Staff Safe A patient at the medical clinic may tell you he can seat himself on the exam table, when in fact he lacks the strength to hoist himself onto it. Another patient may believe she can stand unassisted only to fall when she tries. “I can tell you …
