Being in the Mental Health Moment
The year 2020 started out as a dream come true for me.
The year 2020 started out as a dream come true for me.
As we recognize February as National Heart Month, much emphasis, and rightly so, is on heart health.
While it is easy to state this difference, circumstances are often nuanced to blur the differentiation.
While nearly every occupational health program is looking to gain some competitive edge, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, getting one of the providers designated as an FAA Aviation Medical Examiner (AME) is one way to offer an additional service line that is often overlooked by many programs and will help a program become even more elite.
The CMS and the AMA have finalized the biggest change to Evaluation and Management (E/M) codes that have occurred within the past 25+ years.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) estimates that around 5 million workers, representing about 20% of all businesses, use respirators as a crucial tool for worker protection when sufficient environmental controls are lacking.
You will have two more years to prepare for the next wave of Evaluation and Management (E/M) changes.
Right or wrong, we have a new
scapegoat when things don’t go right.
I occasionally use stories and anecdotes to help patients resolve pain issues.