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Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management and Clinical Documentation Integrity To Avoid Coding Disasters

Relias

Coding and clinical documentation have never been more important in healthcare. “We You’ll need ongoing training for your staff to improve your clinical documentation and avoid the following coding disasters. Insufficient Clinical Documentation or Underreported codes. Coding is high value — and in high demand.

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UPDATE: Federal Rule to Prevent Surprise Health Care Billing – Application to Clinical Social Workers

Social Work Blog

We are also advocating on behalf of clinical social workers with key federal regulatory agencies and other stakeholders. Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, Indian Health Service or the Veterans Affairs health system). Document the GFE in the clinical record. Background on Federal Rule. Timeframes.

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Helping Schools Motivate Parents to Participate in their Child’s Autism Education Plan

Relias

As a human services professional or educator, you spend a lot of time devising a great autism education plan for each of the children you care for. Engel works as a clinical psychologist who specializes in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Communication. To learn how to do this, we spoke with Cheryl N. Engel, Ph.D.

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Ed Town Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Beyond Advocacy

She works in inpatient/outpatient specialty care policy and as a clinical social worker across the Veterans Administration. She was a 2021-22 Fellow in the House of Representatives and the Department of Health and Human Services. Jones provided leadership for the Coalition for Social Work and Health.

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Riding Out the Pandemic: Social Work Practice during COVID-19: Navigating Client Needs and Boundary Changes

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

While information and communication technologies (ICTs) permeated social work practice long before the onset of COVID-19, the abrupt need to close non-essential workplaces resulted in unparalleled incorporation of digital technology and a radical change in social work practice across the globe. Speaker: Faye Mishna (University of Toronto).

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Are You Eligible for Coverage Under FTCA?

Relias

Quality improvement Quality improvement programs include the internal efforts to improve the quality of clinical care. One example of this is analyzing clinical outcome data and identifying areas of needed improvement. This includes providing translation services when necessary.

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Federal Rule to Prevent Surprise Health Care Billing

Social Work Blog

Application to Clinical Social Work Services. Under a new federal rule to protect consumers from surprise health care bills, clinical social workers and other health care provider types must, effective January 1, 2022, provide a good faith estimate of expected charges. Document the GFE in the clinical record. Timeframes.

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