by Gina Elkins | Friday, July 10, 2020 | Compliance, Regulatory
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen multiple changes. One change is the survey process. If you recall, on March 4, 2020, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CM)S required states to focus surveys on infection control and then on March 23, 2020, CMS...
by Lisa Chadwick | Wednesday, April 29, 2020 | Compliance, Risk Management
On April 27th, McKnight’s Long-Term Care News reports that more than 70% of healthcare providers do not have sufficient PPE to care for patients. The effects of this will be felt downstream for quite some time. On this date, the global count of positive COVID cases...
by Gina Elkins | Monday, April 13, 2020 | Compliance
As if things are not hard enough during this COVID-19 pandemic, there are people out there preying on our most vulnerable. Social Security Matters blog by Seema Verma, the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, informed us that “scammers take...
by Gina Elkins | Monday, March 9, 2020 | Compliance
Physician Query: What is it? Physician queries have been used by Health Information Management (HIM) and Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) professionals in hospitals, but physician queries can be used in any setting. A physician query is a communication between...
by Gina Elkins | Monday, February 3, 2020 | Compliance
I am currently writing this blog while sitting on a plane, traveling for work and as I am in the air looking down on the clouds, I realize that my entire afternoon highlighted the modes in which I functioned thus far in my journey. Let’s take a look: Drove my truck to...
by Gina Elkins | Thursday, January 2, 2020 | Compliance
MC Hammer’s song title, “U Can’t Touch This” comes to mind when I think about ill-doers wanting to steal data and demanding us to pay in order to retrieve and access our own data files! Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) defines Ransomware, “as a...
