An effective staff training program is the foundation that allows healthcare organizations to foster a culture of competence, compliance, and quality care. Elevate your healthcare team with these key strategies from our experts at First Healthcare Compliance.
Workplace violence is a serious concern in the healthcare industry, posing significant risks to both patients and healthcare professionals. Learn about the challenges faced by healthcare professionals when it comes to workplace violence and gain strategies to mitigate and prevent these incidents.
A healthy RIS is a critical component of a healthcare facility. Make sure that yours is working the way it should to avoid lost reimbursement and reduce the risk of compliance issues.
In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare regulations, one crucial aspect that healthcare entities must prioritize is exclusion screening.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have created over 50 new C-codes (C7500–C7555) for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) that affect many procedures. These codes were created to allow additional payment for packaged services for ASCs.
If your organization is struggling with coding laboratory services consistently and accurately, here are the four steps you need to take.
Compliance and auditing offer an opportunity for continuous improvement. Done right they help organizations better serve patients, mitigate risk and exposure, and improve reimbursement and revenue. But what constitutes doing it right? This article discusses the three most common mistakes.
Ask Panacea’s experts, and they’ll tell you: there are two ways for healthcare providers to perform proactive auditing of their claims. There’s the old way—and there’s the better way.
Compliance plans are critical to making sure your organization is mitigating risk. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) recommends that you audit a minimum of 10 professional encounters per year, per physician – but if you’re not going above and beyond that by performing focused audits, you’re putting your practice at risk by ignoring everything else (not to mention, you may be missing opportunities by under-coding). Learn more
The chaos and confusion fomented throughout the American healthcare industry by the continuing COVID-19 pandemic has been bad enough in of itself – but when coders found themselves unable to accurately document what was even going on with patients, things got even worse. Learn more