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Sleep : Patient Records Must Include Completed Questionnaires
Maintaining accurate records for your sleep patients is essential to ensuring the provision of quality care.
Preparation Key to Effectively Handling Emergencies
ACHC Standards and Medicare Conditions for Coverage (CfCs) require organizations to develop an emergency preparedness plan.
Unraveling the Mysteries of Informed Consent
Patients or their representatives have the right to participate in the development of the patients’ plans of care. This includes providing informed consent for medical and surgical interventions and other aspects of their care
P&Ps Should Address Repeated Polysomnography Testing
Duplicate polysomnography services are rarely medically necessary in consecutive years, according to Medicare fraud investigators and sleep medicine professionals.
Perform Lab Tests? CLIA Rules Must Be Followed
Healthcare providers that perform laboratory tests must meet CLIA requirements established by CMS. Learn more in the blog.
Office-Based Surgery: Let’s Talk Trash! What’s the Big Deal About Boxes?
Cardboard shipping boxes are ubiquitous. There’s likely one in or near your workspace at this moment. It’s probably harmless. But a corrugated cardboard box that makes its way into a semi-restricted and restricted area of your surgical services department is another story – a very serious story. You need a plan.