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10 Best Practices for Employee Training in Healthcare

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.
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Workplace Violence Prevention in Healthcare: Ensuring Safety for Patients and Staff

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.
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Maintaining the Health of Your Radiology Information System (RIS)

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.
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Exclusion Screening Requirements for Healthcare Entities: Ensuring Compliance and Protecting Your Organization

In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare regulations, one crucial aspect that healthcare entities must prioritize is exclusion screening.
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Big Changes in 2023 for Ambulatory Surgery Centers

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.
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Is Your Staff Struggling with How to Bill Lab Services? 4 Steps to Better Results

If your organization is struggling with coding laboratory services consistently and accurately, here are the four steps you need to take.
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The Top 3 Compliance and Auditing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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.
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Is Automation the Answer in Auditing?

Ask Kathy Pride, and she’ll tell you: there are two ways for…
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What’s on Your 2021 OIG Compliance Greatest Hits List?

Compliance plans are critical to making sure your organization…
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New ICD-10 Codes Create Clarity in Capturing COVID in 2021

The chaos and confusion fomented throughout the American healthcare…
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