A comfort zone is a psychological state in which things feel familiar to a person and they are at ease and in control of their environment, experiencing low levels of anxiety and stress. In this zone, a steady level of performance is possible.
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced businesses to maintain and build relationships with consumers when their world has been upended. Businesses are now facing tension between generating sales during a period of extreme economic hardship and respecting the threats to life and livelihood that have altered consumer priorities and preferences. This tension is very real, particularly for newer ventures or smaller business that provide discretionary products and may not have the resources to survive long periods of severely diminished cash flow.
It is of paramount importance to keep physicians, health care workers and patients safe amid infectious disease outbreaks such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
To reduce the risk of exposure during a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, providing care through virtual visits is a key part of clinic workflow.
FMCSA has issued a Covid 19 waiver of certain regulations regarding commercial driver license holders. See the full waiver announcement here
The ICD-10-CM codes provided in this document are intended to provide information on the coding of COVID-19.
When a novel virus with pandemic potential emerges, nonpharmaceutical interventions, which will be called community mitigation strategies in this document, often are the most readily available interventions to help slow the transmission of the virus in communities. Community mitigation is a set of actions that persons and communities can take to help slow the spread of respiratory virus infections.
I was at a chiropractic board meeting yesterday and one of the doctors stated that we all had to have a CLIA waiver to perform Dip Stix urine test in our office or to collect urine to send it out to a lab.
When a medical practice provides a product or service, it has a right to expect to be paid on a timely basis. However, anyone who’s been in a practice a month or more has learned prompt payment is not always the case. Often, accounts get seriously past due, or when payments are made, there may be insufficient funds in the patient’s account to cover a check or credit card chargebacks. Bills not paid within terms can have a dramatically negative impact on the “cash flow” of a practice.
Anyone working with medical information quickly begins to hear about the need to maintain HIPAA practices for privacy and security to maintain the confidentiality of the medical information.