Monthly Archives: September 2020
What We’re Reading – Home Care No Longer a Job Seeker’s Market, New Data Suggests
According to Indeed Hiring Lab, home care was a job seeker’s market before the pandemic. The sector’s unemployment rate was “incredibly low,” which left agencies quite challenged in finding and retaining workers whose market advantage encouraged them to job-hop for … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Can HR Ban Politically Focused Face Masks?
This article from HR Executive was eye-catching because we read a related article on how HR should handle political talk in the workplace. Here is that blog. The answer to the question in the title is a yes, HR can … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – 5 Providers Settle After Withholding EHR Access, Violating HIPAA
The HIPAA Right of Access Initiative allows patients the right to timely access to their health records at a reasonable cost and in the manner in which they request it [emphasis intentional], or they may file a complaint with the … Read Full Post
Did You Know…Medicare Pays for Depression Screenings?
According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the U.S. It can begin at any age, often in adulthood, and can occur with other serous medical conditions. Research indicates that … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Inside Citizens Bank’s Unique COVID-era Benefits
Is there anyone who has not been impacted by the COVID crisis? We’d be hard-pressed to find that lucky individual! Everyone else has been – to put it nicely – rocked by the changes to our family life, recreation, health … Read Full Post
Recruitment Challenges – Finding the Right Candidate
As human resource professionals, one of our main job functions is recruitment. Every aspect of our HR responsibility starts with finding the right talent for our company, and significant challenges in that area create a domino effect on our role … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Five Self-care Tips for Physicians in the COVID Era
Physicians have always had stress in their lives but when COVID surfaced, it just seemed to mount higher. We all probably thought at the beginning that this would only affect our lives for a short period of time and then … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – How Should HR Handle Political Talk in the New Workplace?
I think we can all agree that there seems to be less tolerance for diverging viewpoints in our society today, and quick triggers abound on social media as people set each other “straight” on controversial topics. That’s why we were … Read Full Post
Lessons from the Cigna/DOJ Lawsuit: Health Risk Appraisals (Part 2)
Last week’s first installment of this blog started our review of HRAs in the MRA environment. Let’s continue searching for lessons to apply in your practice. A third issue with Cigna’s HRAs was the supposed expectation to capture all the … Read Full Post
Compliance Tool-kit Should Include External Validation
Although all providers should have a Compliance Program, it seems that mostly larger groups have them in place and even then, to varying degrees. Many practices have some form of internal validation of a coder’s work; most of the time, … Read Full Post