Summers can be wonderful, it's true. But they can also be a glowing reminder of what you don't have in your HIM department: a bountiful staff and endless resources.
If HIM professionals needed another reason to be concerned with protected health information (PHI) outside of paper records, a surgery center in Arizona provided one in April.
If your utilization review (UR) committee is like many others nationwide, it may not have actually met in years-and chances are your UR committee members are secretly glad that's the case. Let's face it; those meetings can be a complete snooze.
