Before beginning any complex process, it is imperative to have a blueprint for that process in place. Such a blueprint for credentialing allows the process to be both efficient and consistent. Making up a process as you go along takes a lot of time and effort, and runs the risk of appearing to be arbitrary.
As an enrollment specialist, you are responsible for the first step in ensuring that your organization gets paid. In fact, enrollment specialists are pivotal employees in collecting payments for their providers and facilities.
Hospitals must ensure patients are not subject to sensitive examinations while under anesthesia without providers and trainees first obtaining and documenting the patient’s informed consent, according to revised interpretive guidance released by CMS last month.
Physician faces prison time, surgeon surrenders license, nurse practitioner sentenced, and more nursing diploma scandal fallout. Find out what’s happening in the world of federal healthcare regulations by reviewing some recent headlines from across the country.
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) defines physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R), also referred to as physiatry or rehabilitation medicine, as the medical specialty concerned with evaluating, diagnosing, and treating patients with physical disorders or disabilities. According to the ABMS, these disorders or disabilities may arise from conditions affecting the musculoskeletal system, such as neck and back pain or other painful conditions affecting the limbs (e.g., carpal tunnel syndrome). Such disabilities may also result from neurological trauma (e.g., spinal cord injury, head injury, or stroke) or from diseases.
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