News came out last week that the Department of Health and Human Services has recommended delaying the implementation of ICD-10 a year, from October 2013 to October 2014. The reason they’re giving is that there are still major problems with implementing their new electronic standards for billing, the 5010 version, and thus it’s hard to […]
Early in the decade, RAC audits, which stands for recovery audit contractors, concentrated only on hospitals and started recovering untold millions of dollars for Medicare. It came about once the federal government saw how successful OIG (office of inspector general) audits were. The audits started on the east coast and started to spread across the […]
Violations Of Harassment Laws Across The Gamut Are Expensive; No One Is Immune Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits not only intentional discrimination, but also practices that have the effect of discriminating against individuals because of their race, color, national origin, religion, or sex. It doesn’t care whether you’re a large […]
There are times when you have to do what you have to do, even if you’re not fully into having to do it. As this article posts, I’m either just getting ready to leave or I’ll be on the road heading to Washington D.C. for a meeting with this national organization I’m a part of […]
I was reading a post by a guy named Alexander Kjerulf (don’t ask me to pronounce it) titled The Courage To Quit. It was the story of a woman who finally realized, after another day of being verbally abused by the guy in charge, that she had to quit and find something else. She was […]
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