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Change Healthcare Cyberattack: What Social Workers Should Know

Social Work Blog

By Denise Johnson, LCSW-C Senior Practice Associate March 2024 In February 2024, a major healthcare cybersecurity attack occurred, affecting many patients and providers including clinical social workers (CSWs). CMS is also urging Medicaid plans to make prospective payments to those affected.

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News Items – May 4, 2023

Social Workers Speak

In my clinical work, I use the idea of empathy styles to help my clients understand the way they handle their own emotional needs, and how they either show up for or avoid their partner’s emotional needs. Kid Clinic wants to remind you and your children to take some time to slow down this month.

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News Items – May 4, 2023

Social Workers Speak

In my clinical work, I use the idea of empathy styles to help my clients understand the way they handle their own emotional needs, and how they either show up for or avoid their partner’s emotional needs. Kid Clinic wants to remind you and your children to take some time to slow down this month.

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Guest Post: Interview with Author of Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry

Bipolar Bandit

I increasingly realized that there is no opportunity to influence legislators to change the system in the clinical setting. I wrote Breakdown to appeal for legislative reform because it’s nearly impossible to change the system from within the trenches of clinical work. Most states have overly restrictive involuntary hold laws.

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Why Successful Integrated Care Management Matters

Relias

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), integrated care is defined as “the systematic coordination of general and behavioral healthcare.” Indeed, since April 2018, clinical commissioning groups have been required to offer IAPT services integrated with physical health pathways.

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Importance of Image and Respect for Home Health Recruitment and Retention

Relias

An unintended, but positive offshoot of the pandemic is that the crisis highlighted home health’s “very quick and successful adjustments” and “versatility” to serve COVID-19 patients and millions of others served under Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Administration, and other services. Clinical assessments. Mentorship programs.

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Clinical Documentation Integrity: Why It’s Crucial for Improving Revenue Cycle Management

Relias

Throughout the cycle, the possibility of errors looms if your staff isn’t up to speed on the complex coding demands and rules set by hospitals, insurers, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. How Clinical Documentation Integrity Affects Revenue. of claims between 2016 and the third quarter of 2020.

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