by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 27, 2012 | Compliance, General, Medicare & Reimbursement
Medicare Signature Requirements The purpose of a rendering/treating/ordering practitioner’s signature in patients’ medical records, operative reports, orders, test findings, etc., is to demonstrate the services have been accurately and fully documented,...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 14, 2012 | General
Healthcare is changing. It is changing to eliminate waste of money, time and resources. It is changing to make more care available with less providers. It is changing to empower patients to participate in their own care. How are you changing with the times in 2013?...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Nov 7, 2012 | General
We have talked about acquiring hematology analyzers and chemistry analyzers; now on to the subject of immunochemistry analyzers. Immunochemistry analyzers analyze substances using technology sensitive enough to measure very small quantities accurately. They do this...
by Abraham Whaley | Oct 2, 2012 | A Career in Practice Management, General, Human Resources, Leadership
Many years ago at my first management job, I cried while firing an employee. It was the first time I had ever fired someone, and this employee was an older woman whose part-time job was being eliminated. She comforted me, patting my arm and offering me a Kleenex....
by Abraham Whaley | Sep 24, 2012 | Compliance, Day-to-Day Operations, General
Since its release in 2008, Internet File Storage tool Dropbox has been a big hit with people who have to keep track of files on multiple computers. Users can download a free program that lets them upload files to “the cloud” (see: a server or servers connected to the...
by Abraham Whaley | Sep 13, 2012 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Compliance, Finance, General, Medicare & Reimbursement
If you have, please consider taking a few minutes to fill out the post-Audit survey being compiled and made available free by the Frank Cohen Group. This is the last week the survey is being offered, so hurry! “Just a reminder that the RAC audits and appeals...
