Revenue cycle leaders across the U.S. are responsible for the financial side of the patient experience, collections, revenue analytics and revenue integrity. This is a huge responsibility to maintain the health of organizations. Here are 15 women who hold senior and executive revenue cycle roles at hospitals and health systems. A special thank you to [...]
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference is only a week away from kicking off in Orlando. The annual event, which brings tens of thousands from the worlds of healthcare tech together with payers, providers and policy experts to a single place, typically offers a barometer for where the industry is going in [...]
ICD-10-CM Official Coding Guidelines - Supplement Coding encounters related to E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use Introduction The purpose of this document is to provide official diagnosis coding guidance for healthcare encounters related to the 2019 health care encounters and deaths related to e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (EVALI). This guidance is consistent [...]
As posted in HIPAA, HIPAA Violations by Art Gross June 3, 2019 Quest Diagnostics, one of the country’s largest blood testing providers announced on Monday that nearly 12 million patients may have had their sensitive information compromised in a data breach. The breach occurred at one of Quest’s billing collections vendors, American Medical Collection Agency [...]
Tampa, FL—5/9/2019—samstaff a business specializing in healthcare staffing for revenue cycle positions, is proud to announce national re-certification as a Women’s Business Enterprise and newly certificated as Women Owned Small Business by the Women’s Business Development Center – Council of Florida, a regional certifying partner of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). “We are [...]
It is that time of the year again, “New year, new me”! It is also time for everyone to create your New Year’s resolution that gets lost somewhere throughout the year. But wouldn’t you like this year to be different? There’s a way for you to create and maintain goals to make you look back [...]
Let’s face it, the world of technology, work culture, and professionalism has changed in the last decade. Today, employees are more empowered. As the economy grows and the job market picks up, employee engagement and retention have become a top priority. Focus has shifted to the well-being of employees and what to do to keep [...]
HIPAA’s Privacy Rule gives patients reasonably strong rights over their health information. Privacy among these is the right of examining and obtaining a copy of their health records. Patients can also ask for corrections to be made. The Privacy Rule standards give to individual the privacy rights for comprehending and controlling the way in which [...]
We thought you might enjoy these scary ICD-10 codes this week! Y93.D- Activities involved arts and handcraft If you’ve tried to make a Halloween costume, you know it is never as easy as you think it will be. Use this code for hot-glue-gun burns or scissor slices. Y04.1- Assault by human bite Parrots aren’t the [...]
The federal government is projecting job growth in the next 10 years for the United States to be bigger than the previous 10 years. For those who work in healthcare industry, the next decade could prove one of the best ever in terms of job growth. Have a look at some of the healthcare jobs expected to grow the fastest.
