Last month, Governor Brown of California signed bill AB 456 into law, which will remove some of the barriers in place that prevented social workers from providing services upon graduating with a master’s degree in social work.
The plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against Premera Blue Cross over a 2015 data breach now allege that the health insurance company destroyed key evidence, according to new documents filed in August.
Q: If we hire temporary nursing staff through a staffing agency, do they need to complete our facility’s HIPAA training, or can we consider the training the agency provides sufficient?
The Revenue Integrity Symposium is truly one of the first and most comprehensive revenue integrity programs available in the country. Anyone with responsibilities in any revenue cycle related function or process, should consider attending.
The professional case manager and nonlicensed case manager extender relationship is a valuable partnership. The nonlicensed case manager extender is able to assist the patient and follow the patient’s individualized plan of care with the guidance of the professional case manager.
The Arc Erie County New York will pay a $200,000 fine to the state after it was discovered earlier this year that client data was exposed on its website for nearly three years.
Q: Our physicians do not have a great query response rate when requests come from coders. What can we do to improve that rate and be more efficient with the query process?
