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.
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.
Crystalline silica (quartz, cristobalite, and tridymite) causes adverse effects on the health of our lungs. Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) is the respirable dust fraction of crystalline silica, which enters the body by inhalation (<10 microns in aerodynamic diameter).
At the 2018 NAOHP National Conference, I gave a sneak peek of the proposed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rules regarding the updating of the evaluation and management (E/M) guidelines. At the time of the conference, they were in a “proposed” state for updating the office/outpatient code set. Now there has been a final determination.
Want decorative contacts for your Halloween or cosplay costume? It takes more than a quick run to the Halloween store.
Avoid the scare of serious eye injury or permanent damage to your eye from costume contacts with a trip to an optometrist or ophthalmologist before you buy. Whether you want vampire, zombie, “circle eye” or other specialty contacts, keep in mind having these festive Halloween looks requires getting a medical device – contact lenses.
The best job I have ever had in my life is raising my two amazing daughters. The next best job has been a lifetime role in shaping the drug testing and occupational health industry.
Success is purposeful planning, artful execution, and endless revisions. Success isn’t accidental. Luck can play a role, but it’s not enough.
Are you hiring employees who are FIT FOR WORK? Do you have a process in place to “capture” those employees with a previous injury or those who are at risk of sustaining an injury?
As the consumerization of healthcare persists, low switching costs, multiple service options and abundant information are all part of the competitive landscape on which healthcare providers must play in order to acquire and keep patients. Occupational Health has the added requirement of satisfying both employer and patient.