How Therapy Providers Can Start Preparing for RCS-1

How Therapy Providers Can Start Preparing for RCS-1

RCS-1 is a complete rewrite of therapy reimbursement rules, and will require therapy providers to make significant operational changes in order to maintain healthy businesses. While the RCS-1 language is still in draft form as a notice of proposed rulemaking, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has indicated that it plans to implement…

3 Questions You Need to Ask About Your Employee Health Workflow!

3 Questions You Need to Ask About Your Employee Health Workflow!

Incorporating Occupational Medicine Services into your current Employee Health organization workflow might help your business see better results, but before committing make sure to ask yourself these three big questions. Hear advice from Eddie Stahl, Clinical Solutions Consultant and Veteran Healthcare Administrator, about what your healthcare business can do to bolster revenue. Net Health 360 professional services…

Latest News: EHR fatigue has frustrated doctors looking to cut clinical hours (Healthcare IT News)

Latest News: EHR fatigue has frustrated doctors looking to cut clinical hours (Healthcare IT News)

Physicians are strategic with what their work hours are dedicated to. When EHRs cause headaches and delays, this can seriously impact a doctors planning. The burden and bureaucracy of modern medicine, not to mention technological frustrations, inflict a toll on U.S. physicians and appear to be major factors influencing their intentions to reduce clinical work…

Study: CMS Should Pay Closer Attention to Chronic Wounds

Study: CMS Should Pay Closer Attention to Chronic Wounds

Clinics specialized in chronic wound care are becoming increasingly important. Medicare claims referring wound treatment are also continuing to grow. Researchers are suggesting that more steps be taken to look into wound care management and the associated costs. According to the article “In 2014, approximately 14.5% of Medicare beneficiaries were diagnosed with at least 1…

Ergonomics: The Cost of Workplace Conditions

Ergonomics: The Cost of Workplace Conditions

For hospital employees, a huge part of the workday is spent either hunched over a computer or manuevering patients. It’s not hard to believe that handling patients is a common cause of workplace injury. It is surpising that musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), the frequent result of a poor sitting environment, account for 600,000 injuries and illnesses. one…

Better RCM Outcomes: Don’t Delay Denial Management

Better RCM Outcomes: Don’t Delay Denial Management

Denials are a bottom-line damaging problem for hospitals, clinics, and practices everywhere. In most cases, denials are also recoverable or preventable. To truly slow the revenue leak, healthcare businesses need to make changes to their revenue cycle management strategy (RCM). Be Preventive with Healthcare Data Analytics!  To reduce denials and stay on track, identify what…

Hospice Care and the Opioid Crisis
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Hospice Care and the Opioid Crisis

The incidence of opioid overdoses has quadrupled since 1999, and in 2015, opioids were involved in more than 33,000 deaths nationwide, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Until recently, hospices have been largely left out of the national discussion on opioid abuse, as patients receiving hospice care often need—and are…

Latest News: Screening For Diabetes Is Working Better Than We Thought (Health News – NPR)

Latest News: Screening For Diabetes Is Working Better Than We Thought (Health News – NPR)

Progressive steps in diabetic research and treatment have significant correlating impacts on long-term wound management. Diabetic ulcers occur in anywhere from 14% to 24% of people suffering from diabetes as reported by the American Podiatric Medical Association. Wound care management centers have been treating diabetic patients more frequently as the rate of diabetes in America has risen…